#bulgarian state television female vocal choir

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Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir - Erghen Diado (Song Of Schopsko) (1975)

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Kaval sviri, arranged by Peter Lyondev, conducted by Katya Barulova, performed by the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir (n.d.)

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my 2024 playlist poll: 24 - 36

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[burlveneer-music]

Flora Ocean Parkin - Electric Dreams Golden Sea - glorious multitracked vocals

In her debut solo release, Flora Ocean Parkin transmits the ecstatic. Expanding their voice into a shimmering tapestry and wrapping the listener in its golden threads. Reaching for the outer limits of her range, they chart a trajectory through maternal desire, phantom forms and a sensory understanding of the self, in order to trace a path to reconciliation and transcendence. With a sound that nods to the otherworldly harmonies of the Bulgarian State Television Female Choir, the mutant aesthetics of Arca and the sonic world building of Lyra Pramuk, Flora manifests a palatial body of work that is intimately personal, rich and decadent. In doing so, they express the new materialist philosophy of Karan Barad through music, as if the atomic world itself were a cosmic choir to sing with. 'The music, and the life it distils, would not have been possible without the support of friends, family, and loved ones who've believed in me along the way. Special thanks to: Alex Keegan, Ayse Hassan, Ayla Octavia Keegan, El Hardwick, Orion Isaacs, Anouska Samms, Chris Penty, Mum, Dad, Chloë, Granny, Mary Goodhart, Tim Green, Kip Ives, Sorana Vieru, Bryony Phipps Wardle, Jamie Morell, Siân Williams, Nick Potter, Mena Shah, Mutualism. Thanks to Karen Barad for the words, worldings and wonder' - Flora Ocean Parkin 25% of label profits will be donated to genderedintelligence.co.uk

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Folksy Friday | The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian)

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214: "Various Bulgarians" // Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares vol. 2

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares vol. 2 "Various Artists" 1988, Elektra Nonesuch

Incredibly annoying album to cite properly, I must say. Like its predecessor, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares vol. 2 is usually credited to either the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir, who sing 10 of 17 songs collected here, or to the Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier, who recorded most of these tracks over a 17-year period. (There is one recording of the Orchestra Yivan Kirev from ’57.) There’s a bit of an air of overaccentuated exoticism to how this stuff is packaged, from retaining the French title (with improper title casing!) for the English market release, to emphasizing Cellier’s curatorial work over that of the arrangers and performers in the narrative around the album. Realistically, we’d probably be better off crediting this one to Various Bulgarians, both for reasons of accuracy and because it’s an exceptionally melodic turn of phrase.

Listening to Le Mystère, though, I understand why those who championed this music hoped to keep it obscure. People consistently describe this stuff as sounding angelic, elven, ethereal, alien—yes, yes, yes, and yes. Wouldn’t want the realities of corrupt little Bulgaria, with its grim concerns about GDP and the Cold War, dirtying the seraphic mantle you know! The basis of these songs is not, to my ear, wildly far from the familiar choral music of Western Europe, but some combination of the brilliant syncopated vocal arrangements, the technical ability of the singers, and the Bulgarian language itself push the recordings into a realm of stranger light. The vocals often sound like the screams of beings with higher, more delicate instruments in their throats than regular humans have, and whether you envision a great stone cathedral or a starlit clearing in a pagan wood, it’s not hard to sense something holy transpiring here.

Anyway, here they are on Johnny Carson.

214/365

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Grace After Meals/Erghen Diado from Nina Paley on Vimeo.

Part 1 (English): "Grace After Meals" recited by Barry Gray from "The Moishe Oysher Seder" Part 2 (Bulgarian): "Erghen Diado"sung by the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir

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The most famous thing about Bulgaria is, of course, their female folk music singing.

Okay, some history: in 1975, after fifteen years of work, Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier released a compilation album of Bulgarian women's folk music, titled Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. Almost no one noticed, except for, you know, extreme music nerds. Several years later, British music producer Ivo Watts-Russell got a cassette copy from his friend Peter Murphy (lead singer of the band Bauhaus) and became fascinated by it. He contacted Cellier and arranged to re-release the album on his own record label in 1986. And then it was released in the US in 1987. And then this obscure folk music recording from Eastern Europe somehow became an international smash hit.

There were three followup albums featuring a number of different choirs. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 2 won a Grammy in 1990. The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir toured the world (under the name Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares) and appeared on the Tonight Show. I can't adequately describe how suddenly big this was. It wasn't quite mainstream -- no Top 40 radio play -- but everybody who was cool knew about it and suddenly had opinions about Bulgarian folk singing.

And then, as all crazes do, it faded. All the hipsters moved on to the next big thing. But Bulgarian women did not stop singing! And you can still hear them! Here, enjoy some more.

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If you have any fun fact about Bulgaria, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

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Thus use and impact of Bulgarian folk music in Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Released in 1995, the film Ghost in the Shell was a striking addition by director Mamoru Oshii to the series of the same name. The film tells the story of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi as she works to fight crime against a highly secretive police force and at the same time questions her existence and humanity as a cyborg. During the film her squad is tracking the elusive figure the Puppet Master, a programmer capable of hacking into other’s brains. It is discovered that the Puppet Master is really a computer program that has become sentient and seeking a human existence. Kusanagi is entranced by the anomaly that is the Puppet Master because Kusanagi seeks knowledge about what she is and if she was ever or could ever be human, and the puppet master seeks to attain humanity and experience mortal existence. Eventually the two merge with him to create a new being and break the final barriers of reproduction and death that prevented them from being human. The movie continuously questions the idea of what differentiates humans from technology.

Accompanying this provocative exploration of humanity is an equally haunting score composed by Kawai Kenji. The highlight of the score is the opening track “Making of a Cyborg,” a haunting melody sung by a women’s choir accompanied with unwavering percussion. The first time this song is played is the second scene of the film that also functions as the title sequence. In this scene we see the creation of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi. While the visuals alone are a testament to sci-fi animation, the music adds a spiritual element to the scene. The deep resonant drums and tinkling mysterious bells accompanying the haunting dissonant vocals perfectly capture the feeling of something gaining life even though we are watching a process of explicitly mechanical steps. This opening is very impactful and does a fantastic job setting the tone and making the viewers anticipate the rest of the movie. 

The same song appears again halfway through the movie, as Kusanagi is at the peak of her existential crisis about the nature of her existence. It plays as we slowly pan over the city, eventually focusing on her as she rides a water taxi, and even though you see people it feels like a solitary introspective sequence. With the addition of the music, this series of shots clearly questions whether Kusanagi is just a puppet with an artificial soul, or ghost as the movie refers to it, or if she is truly closer to humanity.

The vocal style and timbre of the song “Making of a Cyborg” is directly influenced by Bulgarian folk singing. In the 1990s Bulgarian folk music had been gaining global recognition and the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir who won a grammy for their 1990 album “Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares: Volume Two.” The very forward, bright vocals of Bulgarian folk singing are extremely distinctive. Additionally one vocal section carries the melody while another section sings a drone harmony underneath. The drone does not shift even as it approaches the melody, occasionally creating a clashing vocal sound. All of these distinctive aspects are found in “Making of a Cyborg.” This piece is not solely of Bulgarian origin, as the music director for ghost in shell also deliberately incorporated traditional Japanese folk elements, including musical scales traditionally found in folk music in the song and Japanese folk percussion instruments used to accompany the women's choir. The Japanese text of the song expands on the theme of the boundary between humanity and technology by adopting the structure of a wedding chant, mirroring the merge that the Puppet Master and Kusanagi undergo and the end of the film.

While this was far from the world’s first introduction to Bulgarian folk music, it continued to spread this form of music to new audiences and expand the way folk traditions can be mixed to create innovative yet deeply rooted music. The inclusion of Bulgarian folk musical elements in the movie itself enriched the atmosphere and helped build the scientific yet spiritual tone in Ghost in the Shell (1995).

- Elizabeth Fiske

Source(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BGSW-MrOk&ab_channel=Cel-ShadedMusicTheory

Link to the song in Ghost in the Shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjOuEruzoh0

Link to a performance of a Bulgarian folk choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgzzWT3zX4&ab_channel=KEXP

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The Bulgarian State Television female vocal choir - Moma Houbava

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you've NEVER heard a choir like this

Kaval Sviri performed by The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir: • Bulgarian folklor- Kaval sviri Lyrics in Bulgarian: Кавал свири, мамо горе доле, мамо, горе доле, мамо Кавал свири мамо горе доле, мамо, под селото Я ще ида, мамо, да го видя да го видя, мамо, да го чуя Ако ми е нашенчето ще го любя ден до пладне Ако ми е ябанджийче ще го любя дор до живот jasonfieler.com Here’s…

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Yove by The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices, live  in Utrecht, Netherlands

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This weeks out in the rude wild abandon consists of Sweet, Queens of the Stone Age, The Clash, John Cale, The Divine Comedy, Hamish Hawk, Dean Blunt, Van Dyke Parks, Lonnie Holley, David Bowie, Space Afrika feat. Blackhaine, John Johanna, King Tubby, Ale Hop, Bernard Parmegiani, and The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir.


One hundred and four of course will mark two years of doing this, but this is the one hundredth. It's hard to celebrate though, very little feedback, very little indication that anyone ever listens to them. Of course I do myself but an occasional word would be nice.


Throughout this pandemic despite global connectivity the world can still be a very lonely place.


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📻 Rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs.

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-Got tagged for this by @massappeal-xx121, thanks man.

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1. grimes - player of games 2. stars - going going gone (live) 3. grimes - colour of moonlight (antiochus) 4. bleachers - take me away (ft. grimes) 5. i_o,peter schoeman,london philharmonic orchestra,david parry & bulgarian state radio & television female vocal choir - low / the four seasons, op 8. "spring": allegro / svatba (the wedding) [acapella] [grimes mix] [mixed] 6. outkast - happy valentine's day 7. funkin matt, grimes & bulgarian state radio & television female vocal choir - aeon / kill v. maim / di-li-do (acapella) [grimes mix] [mixed] 8. bat for lashes - sleep alone 9. grimes - california (hana remix) x. grimes - utopia

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-Tagging: @the-nuclear-chaos @witchblade @mxmdshjn @emetoy001 @destroyingeverythingold @del-alma @yelloweird @dieweltenwanderin @myglorydayswon @vespersposts @vacuouus @serbianshepherd729 @d4rqelf @her-wicked-mind @voidfaerie + anyone who feels like playing

[ note: i wanted to post this on main so i added the album covers for the necessary image component.  you DO NOT need to do that if you don’t want to and can simply make a post with only the text. ]

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📷 LE MYSTÈRE DES VOIX BULGARES / BULGARIAN STATE TELEVISION FEMALE VOCAL CHOIR RSR, Lausanne Juin / June 2006