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Shortcuts for shoppers Buying direct from us is the only way to get a thing to hold in your hand, and it gives us the most support. We sell our mucic on CDs in pretty cases with booklets, or on custom-made, beautiful cards, which give you (or whoever you give them to) access to our music and booklets via an immediate download in whatever format suits. Thank you!
Songs of Forbidden Love Songs of Forbidden Love gives us Kalimanku Denku’s heartbreaking harmonies, Traitsa Brate’s sparse discord, Ima Nema’s fierce antiphony. Our songs subvert ‘boy meets girl’ as only Bulgarian folk music can – man falls for cousin, girl meets dragon, granny imagines grandad in a sexy coat. Haven’t we all been there? You can buy direct from us on CD or card – this gives us the most support.
For a download-only copy, please go to bandcamp Goro Le Goro Goro Le Goro takes us to the cool, green forests of Bulgaria where heroes roam, nightingales sing and cherry trees bear fruit. Distant voices singing “on high” cut through the mist and the sunshine reveals beautiful maidens. But the forest is also a place for men so there are songs of rampant flirting and seduction, of fighting for freedom from the Ottoman Turks... and of knitting, manfully.
Muri Yano * Newly-comissioned songs from Kiril Todorov. Listen to Muri Yano: Dragana: Byalo Rade:
Mixed folk choirs are unusual in Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian choral repertoire is almost exclusively female. This album's masculine tone, in contrast with our more feminine debut Alyana Galyana, emerged as we worked with Bulgarian composer Kiril Todorov. Downloads If you're desperate to hear it all right now, go listen at Bandcamp. Note that you can buy an album + immediate download there – It'll cost a little more, and we'll still send you the CD tomorrow. Alyana Galyana Alyana Galyana is the choir's first CD, and contains 18 of our favourite songs. You can hear short excerpts of some of the tracks by clicking on the links below. We've tried to make this the very best recording we could; we gathered in wonderful spaces and found expert engineers (Dill Katz recording, Nick Robbins mastering) to capture the choir's particular sound. The CD comes with a beautiful eight-page booklet containing translations of the songs.
The CD is only available from us, either at concerts, or through this website. Every penny spent on the CD supports the choir and the composers of the music.
Izgreyala Yasna Zvezda If you like the beautiful design for the cover, you might want to know that we have t-shirts based on the same design in all sizes, short and long sleves, for a tenner. Email dessi(at)londonbulgarianchoir.co.uk if you would like to know more. |