BULGARIA – BULGARIE Music of Bulgaria – Seven Seas – Ethnic Music of the World Series – GXC-5007

BULGARIA – BULGARIE
Music of Bulgaria – Seven Seas  – Ethnic Music of the World Series – GXC-5007 – Recorded by Fumio Koizumi in 1964 (LP) 

Here’s another inspiring album recorded by Japanese musicologist Fumio Koizumi in Bulgaria in 1964, featuring the 7-hole kaval flute (A1-A4), violin and voice (A5-A9), gadulka bowed fiddles (A10 & A13-A15), female singers (B6-B7) and vocal groups (B1-B5 and B8), male singers (B9-B12) and goat-skin gaida bagpipes (B13-B14).

Weaving rich sonorities, complex rhythms and fascinating harmonies, these performances transport us back to a time when traditional village music was closely connected to various horo folk dances at the heart of Bulgarian rural culture and identity.

Voici un nouvel album inspirant enregistré par le musicologue japonais Fumio Koizumi en Bulgarie en 1964, comprenant des flûtes kaval à 7 trous (A1-A4), du violon et du chant (A5-A9), des violons à archet gadulka (A10 et A13-A15), des voix de femmes solo (B6-B7) ou dans des ensembles vocaux (B1-B5 et B8), des voix d’hommes (B9-B12) et des cornemuses en peau de chèvre (B13-B14).

Ces musiques qui tissent des rythmes complexes et des sonorités et harmonies riches et fascinantes nous plonge dans le monde traditionnel d’antan où la musique de village était étroitement liée à une multitude de danses folkloriques horo au cœur même de la culture et de l'identité rurales bulgares.

A1 – Kopanitsa Horo Dance

Metodi Yanchev – kaval flute.

A2 – Ovcharska

Metodi Yanchev – kaval flute.

 

A3 – Chetvorno Horo Dance

Metodi Yanchev – kaval flute.

A4 – Paidushko Horo Dance

Metodi Yanchev – kaval flute.

 

A5 – Tonight, I'll See My Girl

Peter Ivanov Tennov – violin and voice.

A6 – Gankino Horo Dance

Peter Ivanov Tennov – violin and voice.

A7 – Why Don't You Buy At My Shop?

Peter Ivanov Tennov – violin and voice.

A8 – Ruchenisa Horo Dance

Peter Ivanov Tennov – violin and voice.

A9 – Sitno Severnyashko Horo Dance

Peter Ivanov Tennov – violin and voice.

A10 – Puppet Dance Music

Vasil Petrov Minchev – gadulka.

A11 – Folksong from Radomir

Gena Chekova Stefanova – female vocalist.

A12 – Lile Lile (Za Raka Horo Dance)

Gena Chekova Stefanova – female vocalist.

A13 – Severnyashko Horo Dance

Yanko Stoilov Bojilov – gadulka.

A14 – Folk Song

Yanko Stoilov Bojilov – gadulka.

A15 – Folk Dance Song

Yanko Stoilov Bojilov – gadulka.

B1 – A Shepherd and a Girl (Mowing Song)

Lazarina Stankova (lead) Nevena Mirchva, sIvanka Tsvetanova – female vocalists.

 

B2 – Maro Le Maro (Mowing Song)

Lazarina Stankova (lead), Nevena Mirchva, Ivanka Tsvetanova – female vocalists.

 

B3 – Petrunko (Horo Dance Song)

Lazarina Stankova (lead), Nevena Mirchva, Ivanka Tsvetanova – female vocalists.

B4 – Sedenkia (Night Work Song)

Lazarina Stankova (lead), Nevena Mirchva, Ivanka Tsvetanova – female vocalists.

 

B5 – A Lad Is Coming In (Sedenkia Song)

Lazarina Stankova (lead), Nevena Mirchva, Ivanka Tsvetanova – female vocalists.

 

B6 – Bulgaria Was Sad (Lyrical Song)

Vasilka Todolova – female vocalist.

B7 – Petkana Said ... (Mowing Song)

Vasilka Todolova – female vocalist.

 

B8 – The Sun Is Shining (Mowing Song)

Petra Muadenova (lead), Kirka Yordanova, Traika Koleva – female vocalists.

 

B9 – Christmas Song I

Unknown – male vocalist.

 

B10 – Christmas Song II

Unknown – male vocalist.

 

B11 – Song for Walking to the Fields

Unknown – male vocalist.

 

B12 – Farming Song

Unknown – male vocalist.

 

B13 – Can You Cut All the Barley in the Fields? (Mowing Song)

Vasil Petrov Minchev – gaida bagpipe.

B14 – Horo Dance Song

Vasil Petrov Minchev – gaida bagpipe.

 

*Kindly note there are errors in the track-list. I tried to correct them as best I could, but not sure about the actual name of each track. Verification by a native speaker is more than welcome.

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Koizumi Fumio (1927-1983) was a major Japanese ethnomusicologist who studied aesthetics at Tokyo University and Japanese music with Eishi Kikkawa. He taught at Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and at Wesleyan University in the United-States and recorded many disappearing musical traditions during his numerous field trips across the world. His years of work culminated with the 1981 release of the 50-LP Great Anthology of Traditional Music.

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*Orient - Okzident – Musik Aus Südost-Europa – Museum Collection Berlin MC3 here

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