― andy, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tigerclawskank, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― commonswings, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sean C: ps. In a cage match between Le Mystere and Huun Huur Tu it's hard to predict a winner...those growly Tuvan voices are pretty powerful, though Le Mystere may make up for it with sheer numbers.Ahhh, sure the Tuvans can fire their weapons from a moving horse, but I think the womens choir has its own glorious armored cavalry division.
dleone: Classic. I heard this several years after it was actually popular, so I missed the yuppie fascination. Something about Eastern European folk music has everyone else's folk music beat, for me.Can you articulate why this is? Does the blood of Eastern Europe flow through you and fill you with an inexplicable nostalgia for a land for which you've never been to?
― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Which in a way makes it more amazing, not less so.
― jon (jon), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
If only because I'm thinking of bringing them to Boston and want to know if people would still come out for a show like this. :-)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
they're beyond classic, I've been listening to the first two volumes again a lot in recent months. Going to have to check out the later records sometime soon, though there was a scary looking techno album in there obviously to be avoided.
In a cage match between Le Mystere and Huun Huur Tu it's hard to predict a winner...
if you're interested in what it would sound like, Huun Huur Tu did record two albums with the Bulgarian Voices Angelite. I need to recheck the liner notes, but I think I remember Angelite being a spin off group. I've heard Fly, Fly My Sadness and liked it, the voices do blend, I preferred the drawn out improvisations to the standards.
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
The highest recommendation I could give would be for the "spin-off" group, Eva Quartet, which features four of the main choir's most oustanding young singers. They have two albums, although only one - Harmonies - is even remotely easy to find. Their stuff is recorded in an actual studio with absolutely no reverb or gratuitous processing, so you just get those bold, dissonant Bulgarian harmonies with a pristine, dry mix. The effect is striking to say the least.
FWIW, the main choir is playing two dates in Pittsburgh and one in Durham, NC thus far, but nothing close to Boston. (They quietly passed through NYC in March.)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 17 August 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
this CD compiling the earlier Nonesuch Explorers is also key: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005IZA/ref=pd_cpt_gw_3/104-6023067-3629543?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Friday, 18 August 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link
the first time I ever heard this music was through holger czukay sampling it on 'sudetenland' from rome remains rome in 1987 -- I like what he did with it very much
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000034AF/ref=m_art_pr_6/002-1509497-2600845?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174
I found it for $2 in a used CD bin.
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Kate Bush made quite good use of their talents I thought.
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.cdroots.com/km-eva.html
I ordered a copy yesterday after hearing the mp3s
― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 18 August 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Only BulgarianCDs seems to carry a second album by Eva Quartet; I haven't been able to locate it anywhere else. (Beware their hideous main graphics for Bulgarian chalga, or pop-folk, artists. The stuff verges on Balkan soft-core porn... with the exception of the truly unreal Azis, anyway.)
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― skoolbus39 (skoolbus39), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― xave (xave), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
From Bulgaria with Love: The Pop Album, techno remixes, definitely not the best introduction to the group
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link
bingo
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
11/28/2006TuesdayGrandville , OHDenison
11/28/2006TuesdayGranville, OHDenison University, Swasey ChapelShow: 8:00
11/29/2006WednesdayPittsburgh , PAPittsburgh Cultural Trust
11/29/2006WednesdayPittsburg, PAByham Theater, 101 6th StShow: 7:30
11/30/2006ThursdayKutztown, PAKutztown University
11/30/2006Thursday
Kutztown University, Schaeffer Auditorium, Main StTix: $14-$28, Show: 7:30
12/02/2006SaturdayDurham, NCDuke University
12/02/2006SaturdayDurham, NCPage Auditorium, Duke UniversityShow: 8:00
12/03/2006SundayNew York, NYSymphony Space
12/03/2006SundayNew York, NYSymphony Space, Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th StShow: 4:00
12/05/2006TuesdayCambridge , MASerbian Orthodox Church
12/07/2006ThursdayColumbus, OHSteve Rosenberg
12/08/2006FridayWashington, DCEmbassy of Bulgaria
12/10/2006SundayCleveland, OHShrine Church of Saint Stanislaus, 3649 E. 65th StShow: 4:00
12/11/2006MondayCleveland , OHCleveland Museum of Artas
More to follow at the URL noted by Skoolbus: http://www.eyefortalent.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.performance_schedule/artist_id/66
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 7 September 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/mystere-des-voix-bulgares-4ad-story/
― djh, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Very first concert I ever paid to see!
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
There was a new album a couple of months ago:
https://themysteryofthebulgarianvoices.bandcamp.com/album/boocheemish
― djh, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link