Have I ever heard anything more exciting, magnificent, out ot this world?? I don't think I have. And I have listened to various music genres for last 40 years.
The Balkans are an intense region. This music oozes with the sadess and hope that only comes from the difficulties a region like that has faced repeatedly for so long.
I bought this album in Japan in the 1980s and listened to it every day. This album healed my feelings of loneliness at the time and cultivated a rich sensibility. Thank you, Professor Fumio Koizumi. 37:38
The titles of the several songs would better be written like: - "Jsnale E Diber Jana" ---> "Jenala e Dilber Yana" - "Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Zarigrad" ---> "Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Tzarigrad" - "Lachko Stapjai" ---> "Lachko Stapyai" - "Dimjaninka" ---> "Dimyaninka"
Little known fact: The 1991 japanese animated movie made by Studio Ghibli called “Only Yesterday” uses music present in this album. Only Yesterday uses folklore music from Bulgaria as part of its OST, and some of that music is not included in its OST album. Only Yesterday uses the following tracks: 13:15 - Dilmano, Dilbero - Used in the scene where the protagonist, Takeo Okajima, first goes to work in the fields at the countryside. 16:50 - Malka Moma Dvori Mete (A Young Girl Sweeps the Yard) - Used in the scene when Takeo is picking the flowers in the field before the sunrise, and she prays to the nature as the sun rises.
This music brings me to tears. I saw the ensemble in 1989 and was absolutely blown away. Still am. How can so much passion, joy, and sorrow be brought to bare in a song. No words are adequate for this experience. I am truly grateful for the Bulgarian voice. I discovered Ivo Papazov and his wedding band at around the same time as the women's choir. Equally as impressive, but in a different way.
This is sublime and so deep music… I have listened a whole album in a single breath. Beautiful music and recording. Love from Serbia 💚 Прелепа музика! (This is the first time in а long time I’m leaving a comment on a UA-cam video, but this recording is something else…)
At 9:55, that is a Thracian gaida, a bagpipe, we're hearing. The kaba gaida, played in southern Bulgaria in the Rodopi mountains, is pitched noticeably lower. The instrument played earlier in the song, is a gadulka, a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body that is held upright when it is played. Both instruments make beautiful music!
It is one of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Thank you so much for posting it. I visit every other day to listen to these angelic voices. Spectacular!
The harmonies in Bulgarian folk vocal music affect me emotionally. When I first heard this beautiful music back in the 90s, it stopped me in my tracks. The sound of women singing such close harmonies. Does anyone know how old some of these songs are? It fascinates that the harmonies sounds like modern Jazz. Amazing!!!
Ricardo Francis Zayas Well it is for sure thousands years old! Even Greeks never manage to recognize it, acquired it and used it! This is the music and the harmonies of the Thracians one of the first Europeans long before Greeks! It is a long story... I can say that Bulgarian traditional music has a triple aspect - singing, playing and dancing and it is meant to enhance human nature! Orpheus was a Thracian not a Greek so he was a master of music also! Indeed Orpheus is not a name but a religious title of the highest priest in Thrace! There were many Orpheus! As I say it is a long story! At the moment there are some 200000 officially registered traditional songs! I may suggest this reading that can be found on Intrenet, it may help a bit- Aspetti della musica tracia nelle antiche fonti greche' di Francesca Berlinzani Greetings
Philip Koutev died in '83. I'm pretty sure some of his compositions were performed with the Bulgarian choir on Johnny Carson, but I'm just starting to really learn about the contemporary Bulgarian choral school. Not *that* old! But there is a very long tradition of polyphonic singing and as far as I can tell it comes from an orthodox catholic tradition that you can hear in a lot of Balkan region. But then they do those really strange "cluster" harmonies that are almost jazzy like you say, and you can hear the other influences from the region in it as well-definitely Middle-Eastern quarter/micro-tonal stuff happening-and there are all sorts of strange rhythmic things they do which I've never heard anywhere else! I'm also fairly certain this is not 12-TET tuning, though I don't have a good enough ear to tell you what it is. Pythagorean or something, given the region? I really don't know but the harmonies are much more "pure" with less "beating" than 12-TET. It is absolutely stunning, isn't it?
@@SuperLeica1 traditonal Bulgarian songs are not polyphonic - let's start with this (said by a Bulgarian that is actually singing traditional songs) :) What you're listening here are contemporary arrangements of traditional songs where there was only one singer and rearly there were two singers ( only in 1-2 regions in Bulgaria). So the songs (not this arrangements) are ancient indeed.
I used to have this album. I still have some albumsand some of these songs are on other albums. I am looking for a song: it was the1st song on a red vinyl album. I don't know the title but the first line was "Yassen mesetz greie, sred vezdite" aza vodi, pla ni nite, aza void pla ni nite and that's all I recall. It isn't spelled right either. If anybody knows of it, I'd love to find it. When I was in my 20's someone moved out with it. Koutev was the best and yes some of the women in this still sing and now w/o the iron curtain, they teach and here in the US.
The most similar thing I found is this: ua-cam.com/video/qRtR6PtAfL4/v-deo.html I tried to reconstruct the text that you wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet, although I am not Bulgarian, but I could not find the 100% match.
...what a exceptional piece and proof of an old, developed culture... stunning, beautiful, AND WORTH KEEPING... i am overwhelmed... PS: and it is (for me) funny, i hear japanese, jewish, celtic and so much other things... i am asking me (for music) the classic question of the egg.
Balkan means, Bal-Kan, Kan - king, kingdom, land and Bal - white. Balkan - the land of the Whites. The Balkans are birthplace of the White race and the world culture is from Balkanic peninsula.
Just leaving this comment here so the algorithm never forgets.
I made it! algorithm found me.
Oh good idea
Me too
Have I ever heard anything more exciting, magnificent, out ot this world?? I don't think I have. And I have listened to various music genres for last 40 years.
This music is a world treasure. I was lucky to go, several years ago, on a musical trip through Bulgaria. It was a major experience.
The Balkans are an intense region. This music oozes with the sadess and hope that only comes from the difficulties a region like that has faced repeatedly for so long.
We are a tough and resilient people
I bought this album in Japan in the 1980s and listened to it every day.
This album healed my feelings of loneliness at the time and cultivated a rich sensibility.
Thank you, Professor Fumio Koizumi. 37:38
Being in a big bustling city can do that. I fell to music in NYC
Thank you for sharing.
This influenced Ghost In The Shell soundtrack
Hi. These are the words of pr. Koizumi himself? Where can I read it?
1. Jsnale E Diber Jana 00:00
2. Prituri Se Planinata 01:38
3. Pilentze Pee 06:20
4. Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Zarigrad 08:40
5. Shopsko Horo 09:18
6. Dilmano, Dilbero 13:15
7. Lachko Stapjai 14:38
8. Malka Moma Dvori Mete 16:50
9. Kaji, Kaji, Angjo 18:55
10. Dumai, Zlato 22:59
11. Pesni Ot Pazardhishko 25:28
12. Dimjaninka 29:41
13. Dve Shopski Pesni 31:25
14. Grozdanka 34:55
15. Pirinski Pesni 38:46
The titles of the several songs would better be written like:
- "Jsnale E Diber Jana" ---> "Jenala e Dilber Yana"
- "Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Zarigrad" ---> "Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Tzarigrad"
- "Lachko Stapjai" ---> "Lachko Stapyai"
- "Dimjaninka" ---> "Dimyaninka"
tnx!!!
@@stamatiskamisakis1584 благодаря
Merci
thank you!
The sound of the universe
In a way it is , we are the sentience of the universe
Yes
Merveilleux ! Et dire qu'on nous casse les oreilles avec le rap !
À bas les sous-cultures ! Vive les traditions d'Europe !
I really quite like Bulgarian music
Little known fact:
The 1991 japanese animated movie made by Studio Ghibli called “Only Yesterday” uses music present in this album.
Only Yesterday uses folklore music from Bulgaria as part of its OST, and some of that music is not included in its OST album.
Only Yesterday uses the following tracks:
13:15 - Dilmano, Dilbero - Used in the scene where the protagonist, Takeo Okajima, first goes to work in the fields at the countryside.
16:50 - Malka Moma Dvori Mete (A Young Girl Sweeps the Yard) - Used in the scene when Takeo is picking the flowers in the field before the sunrise, and she prays to the nature as the sun rises.
medea 1969
This influenced Ghost In The Shell soundtrack
@@MAPEbatica I listened to that soundtrack years ago. Is wonderful.
I am half Egyptian your music leaves me with the feeling I am back to a passed life following the pharoes walking through one of their great temples
Bless you man.
Honestly, Bulgarian music has a unique and touching beauty. I could listen to it all day. Amazing.
Its beautiful.
This music brings me to tears. I saw the ensemble in 1989 and was absolutely blown away. Still am. How can so much passion, joy, and sorrow be brought to bare in a song. No words are adequate for this experience. I am truly grateful for the Bulgarian voice. I discovered Ivo Papazov and his wedding band at around the same time as the women's choir. Equally as impressive, but in a different way.
I wish I was born by then and could witness the ensemble myself in live.
So many things in this world that we can never see...
PRELEPO ....... obožavam etno muziku. A Balkan ima najlepšu na svetu.
Pozdrav iz Srbije
Pozdrav, bratia. :)
Thank You 🙏♥️
Not Balkan, but Bulgaria. ;-)
@@ЕлицаЕнева-ж3о 🤦
I have this CD and have listened for uncountable times. amazing.
Неймовірно. Ці пісні викликають захоплення та внутрішній спокій одночасно.
This is sublime and so deep music… I have listened a whole album in a single breath. Beautiful music and recording. Love from Serbia 💚 Прелепа музика!
(This is the first time in а long time I’m leaving a comment on a UA-cam video, but this recording is something else…)
Благодаря ти, брате!
At 9:55, that is a Thracian gaida, a bagpipe, we're hearing. The kaba gaida, played in southern Bulgaria in the Rodopi mountains, is pitched noticeably lower. The instrument played earlier in the song, is a gadulka, a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body that is held upright when it is played. Both instruments make beautiful music!
Thank you for this analysis but isn't it the jura gaida since it's a Shoppe song?
@@wrinkliestdog jura gaida is tracian gaida, it comes from Strandja tracian region
@@tazzz1783 oh okay
So beautiful. Made me cry ❤️
Me to. Greetings from Belgium.
Tears came to my eyes listening to this. Very beautiful and devin sounding.
すごくいいです。聞かせてくれてありがとうございます！
I can feel my ancestors vibrating through my bones
One of the best records I've ever bought. Love this Ensemble.
Outer worldly... to all Bulgarians out there: you got some really beautiful music (and women)
All hail to Philip Koutev
Thank You 🙏
The women (although fuckable) do really create sounds during intercourse. Yet it is nothing like in this video.
bewegt und schön
♥♥♥ I cannot possibly love this hard enough. ♥♥♥
Originally released in 1989, I see. Some of the women on this release are still in the choir
Still have my cassette copy.
Saved it in digital and still play it.
Think it's early than 89.
Verka Siderova is the one of the who still a live :)
how beautiful, I'm glad I found this kind of music
apex superiority of the Slavic SPIRIT
Balkan Spirit
Niesamowite! Jeśli ktoś tu zajrzy z Polski, słuchajcie tych anielskich głosów...
Zaglądają Polacy zaglądają!
Это шедевр😍😍😍😭😭😭😍😍❤️❤️
прекрасное звучание, трогает до глубины души
02:49
ここら辺が特に素晴らしいですね°˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
図書館でこれは何だろうって好奇心でCDを借りましたが
自宅で聞いて感動しましたよ💖
A masterpiece.
It is one of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Thank you so much for posting it. I visit every other day to listen to these angelic voices. Spectacular!
The harmonies in Bulgarian folk vocal music affect me emotionally.
When I first heard this beautiful music back in the 90s, it stopped me in my tracks. The sound of women singing such close harmonies.
Does anyone know how old some of these songs are? It fascinates that the harmonies sounds like modern Jazz. Amazing!!!
Ricardo Francis Zayas Well it is for sure thousands years old! Even Greeks never manage to recognize it, acquired it and used it! This is the music and the harmonies of the Thracians one of the first Europeans long before Greeks! It is a long story... I can say that Bulgarian traditional music has a triple aspect - singing, playing and dancing and it is meant to enhance human nature! Orpheus was a Thracian not a Greek so he was a master of music also! Indeed Orpheus is not a name but a religious title of the highest priest in Thrace! There were many Orpheus! As I say it is a long story! At the moment there are some 200000 officially registered traditional songs! I may suggest this reading that can be found on Intrenet, it may help a bit- Aspetti della musica tracia nelle antiche fonti greche'
di Francesca Berlinzani
Greetings
Philip Koutev died in '83. I'm pretty sure some of his compositions were performed with the Bulgarian choir on Johnny Carson, but I'm just starting to really learn about the contemporary Bulgarian choral school.
Not *that* old! But there is a very long tradition of polyphonic singing and as far as I can tell it comes from an orthodox catholic tradition that you can hear in a lot of Balkan region. But then they do those really strange "cluster" harmonies that are almost jazzy like you say, and you can hear the other influences from the region in it as well-definitely Middle-Eastern quarter/micro-tonal stuff happening-and there are all sorts of strange rhythmic things they do which I've never heard anywhere else! I'm also fairly certain this is not 12-TET tuning, though I don't have a good enough ear to tell you what it is. Pythagorean or something, given the region? I really don't know but the harmonies are much more "pure" with less "beating" than 12-TET.
It is absolutely stunning, isn't it?
Bulgarian kalendar is oldest 7000 years.
Maybe modern jazz musicians have big ears and good taste?
@@SuperLeica1 traditonal Bulgarian songs are not polyphonic - let's start with this (said by a Bulgarian that is actually singing traditional songs) :) What you're listening here are contemporary arrangements of traditional songs where there was only one singer and rearly there were two singers ( only in 1-2 regions in Bulgaria). So the songs (not this arrangements) are ancient indeed.
Гордост .
amazing voices, amazing music..THANKS!
Alone In The Dark Soundtrack brought me here. I love bulgarian choirs!
Вълшебни гласове! Божествена музика!
Malka Moma Dvori Mete is amazing
''Little girl is brushing the yard'' :)
Дзякуе, Филип Кутев!
Дюже добре!
I used to have this album. I still have some albumsand some of these songs are on other albums. I am looking for a song: it was the1st song on a red vinyl album. I don't know the title but the first line was "Yassen mesetz greie, sred vezdite" aza vodi, pla ni nite, aza void pla ni nite and that's all I recall. It isn't spelled right either. If anybody knows of it, I'd love to find it.
When I was in my 20's someone moved out with it. Koutev was the best and yes some of the women in this still sing and now w/o the iron curtain, they teach and here in the US.
The most similar thing I found is this: ua-cam.com/video/qRtR6PtAfL4/v-deo.html
I tried to reconstruct the text that you wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet, although I am not Bulgarian, but I could not find the 100% match.
...what a exceptional piece and proof of an old, developed culture... stunning, beautiful, AND WORTH KEEPING... i am overwhelmed... PS: and it is (for me) funny, i hear japanese, jewish, celtic and so much other things... i am asking me (for music) the classic question of the egg.
It all originates in the Balcan! Balkan = Old mountain
@@nemaemanema3940 Thank you...didn't knew the meaning... a happy new year!
Balkan means, Bal-Kan, Kan - king, kingdom, land and Bal - white. Balkan - the land of the Whites. The Balkans are birthplace of the White race and the world culture is from Balkanic peninsula.
@@3RedArmy lmao who taught you that ethnonationalist propaganda bullsht?
@@Sergio-nb4hj The history, the archeology, the genetics and the logic.
Sublime.
Absolutely stunning, and rare too is this JVC recording - thank you so very much for sharing 🙏
1:37 !!!!!!!! Instant tears !!!!
Arte, emociones, conexiión intercultural mundial. precioso.
Inspiration to Ghost in the Shell...
What is that?
@@lisellesloan3191 a japanese animation film
Beautifull, fantastic
Właśnie dziś, 3 grudnia 2020, polecił ten niezwykły chór Pan Zbigniew Zamachowski w radiu Nowy Świat. Pięknie się tego słucha. Mistrzowie 👏👏👏❤
Hello from USA! I am listening to different traditional music from around the world!
Always an amazing and powerful sound.
Can recognise street away Stefka Subotinova and Nadka Karadjova on - Pilence Pee
❤️❤️❤️❤️
22:59 absolutely sublime song and performance ❤
It is very beautiful that Bulgarian folkmusic.
okay but can this become a youtube recommended
Just beautiful
Śpiewacie drogie panie jak anioły. Pozdrowienia z Polski
SICK MUSIC!
How Celtic does that Shopsko Horo sound? The Celt in me has wide open eyes and a beaming grin listening to it.
celts and bulgarians are cousins
@@RositsaPetrovarjp7 You are absolutely right. And the names of the first four numbers are almost identical between Bulgarian and Scottish Gaelic.
Perfect moment !
Thank for sharing !
Whoa!! So glad this is out there!!
Благодаря!!💘🇧🇬💞
wonderful
Increíble tanta belleza y armonía. Magia vocal
Maravillosas...!!!
Very emotional sound
Maravilloso!!
ghost in the bulgarian
yes, very similar to the ost of ghost in the shell
@@heavenlyfusionguitars9245 Ghost in the shell ost is inspired by this that is why it sounds similar.
@@GodOfWarBG Cool thanks, did no know that.
this is bliss
頭蓋骨に響く感じですね
❤️
this is slavic soul music - balsam für die seele
aahhhh love
Pure beauty
Thank you
Only yesterday brought me here :')
13:15 Dilmano, Dilbero ;)
This is good stuff man
Ghost in the Shell brought me here
❤❤❤
WAO!!!
The second song is so emotional.
Here 😊
8:00 hits hard
Thank you PaWeu
The first 3 songs are my favorites
dope
Yes
💕💕💕👍😘
This makes me want to manifest myself in different depressing eras and eventually fight god.
This was in a documentary about Antarctica. Anyone remember that?
👏👏👏👏
I'm not sure if the bagpipe at 9:55 is exactly a kaba gaida, since it's used in the Rhodopes, while the melody is from the Shoppe area.
+Цафара Цафарова Каба Гайдата се използва навсякъде в нашият фолклор,но най-вече в Родопите.Заслушай се, не можеш да объркаш звукът на каба гайдата!
Мерси! На слух не разбирам много, останалото съм го чела - че в останалите области има по-други видове гайди. Но явно не е точно така.
На база тази информамция, мисля че в шопското хоро звучи джура гайда: gaidari.com/gaida
It’s used all over the country. Every region. Really.
@@megibg890 Гайдите като цяло да. Каба гайдата конкретно е характерна за Родопите обаче.
As mnogo vi obichem.
vol.2?
Il pippero? (Elio docet) :-)
Wooow
David Crosby's favorite album, per (internet) report.
41:37 ❤
13:17 16:51
Maravilloso, emocionante....
ghost in the shell