Le Mystère des voix bulgares - Le Mystère des voix bulgares: Volume 1
| Artist: | Le Mystère des voix bulgares |
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| Genres: | Bulgarian Folk Music, Polyphonic Chant, White Voice A cappella, Choral |
| Released: | 1975 |
| Type: | Album |
| Label: | Cellier |
| Link: | Spotify |
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Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (translated as "The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices") is a compilation album of modern arrangements of Bulgarian folk songs featuring, among others, the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir, with soloists Yanka Rupkina, Kalinka Valcheva and Stefka Sabotinova; and the Filip Kutev Ensemble....
he album was the result of fifteen years of work by Swiss ethnomusicologist and producer Marcel Cellier and was released in 1975 on his small Disques Cellier label. Some of the recordings he made himself; others were taken from the archives of Radio Sofia. The album won a Grand Prix du Disque award. The album drew on an earlier release, Music of Bulgaria: Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic, conducted by Kutev (credited as Philippe Koutev), which was released in 1966 by Elektra Records (EKL282), and which itself was a reissue of Ensemble de la République Bulgare, recorded in Paris in 1955 by Le Chant du Monde.
In the 1980s, Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of the British 4AD label) was introduced to the choir from a third or fourth generation audio cassette lent to him by Peter Murphy, singer from the band Bauhaus. He became thoroughly entranced by the music, and tracked down and licensed the recordings from Cellier. It was re-released in 1986 by 4AD in the UK, by the Nonesuch label in the US in 1987, and appeared on the Philips label in other territories.
Subsequent albums were released with similar titles: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 2 [1988], which won a Grammy Award in 1989; Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 3 [1990]; and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 4 [1998].
NPR ranked Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 1 the 78th greatest album ever made by women.
The music has been acclaimed by various artists such as Paul Simon, Kate Bush, George Harrison, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins), Bobby McFerrin, Medwyn Goodall, Enrique Morente, the Grateful Dead, Robert Plant and has prompted worldwide interest.
he album was the result of fifteen years of work by Swiss ethnomusicologist and producer Marcel Cellier and was released in 1975 on his small Disques Cellier label. Some of the recordings he made himself; others were taken from the archives of Radio Sofia. The album won a Grand Prix du Disque award. The album drew on an earlier release, Music of Bulgaria: Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic, conducted by Kutev (credited as Philippe Koutev), which was released in 1966 by Elektra Records (EKL282), and which itself was a reissue of Ensemble de la République Bulgare, recorded in Paris in 1955 by Le Chant du Monde.
In the 1980s, Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of the British 4AD label) was introduced to the choir from a third or fourth generation audio cassette lent to him by Peter Murphy, singer from the band Bauhaus. He became thoroughly entranced by the music, and tracked down and licensed the recordings from Cellier. It was re-released in 1986 by 4AD in the UK, by the Nonesuch label in the US in 1987, and appeared on the Philips label in other territories.
Subsequent albums were released with similar titles: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 2 [1988], which won a Grammy Award in 1989; Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 3 [1990]; and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 4 [1998].
NPR ranked Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Volume 1 the 78th greatest album ever made by women.
The music has been acclaimed by various artists such as Paul Simon, Kate Bush, George Harrison, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins), Bobby McFerrin, Medwyn Goodall, Enrique Morente, the Grateful Dead, Robert Plant and has prompted worldwide interest.
Editions:
1975
Original Release
Cellier
| Cellier 008
| Vinyl, LP
| Side A: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A1. | Pilentze pee | (2:20) | |
| A2. | Svatba | (1:26) | |
| A3. | Kalimankou denkou | (5:06) | |
| A4. | Strati na Angelaki doumasche | (2:37) | |
| A5. | Polegnala e pschenitza | (2:00) | |
| A6. | Messetschinko lio greïlivko | (2:30) | |
| A7. | Breï Yvane | (1:28) | |
| Side B: | |||
| B1. | Erghen diado | (2:48) | |
| B2. | Sableyalo mi agontze | (4:30) | |
| B3. | Prïtourïtze planinata | (2:44) | |
| B4. | Mir Stanke le | (3:09) | |
| B5. | Schopska pesen | (1:27) | |
| B6. | Polegnala e Todora | (3:36) | |