This is the last volume in the World Library serie and it’s another stunning sampler of traditional music, this time from Bulgaria. It was recorded in the field by english folk singer and collector of folk song A. L Lloyd in the fifties. Most of the pieces here, either vocal or instrumental use a kind of minor scale and some assymetrical meters typical of balkan dance music. Some instruments heard here are the gaida (goat-skin bagpipe), the kaval (a end-blown flute), the gadulka (bowed string instrument similar to the rebec) and the tambura (lute). The vocal pieces are poweful and moving, sung in open, full-throat style.
This excellent vinyl rip was contribued by a reader of this blog a few months ago and i thank him very much fort this. The zip file includes a pdf with the inside liner notes and photographs.
If you’re a fan of bulgarian traditional music like me, there are other great records available. A few years ago, Yazoo Records issued ” Song of the crooked dance”, a great collection of 78rpm records of Bulgarian music edited by Lauren Brody. And this days the english JSP label just released a whole box set of traditional bulgarian music on 78rpm records called “Outsinging the nightingale” edited by the same Lauren Brody. You can order this box set and learn more about her research on vintage bulgarian music by going to the “Song of the crooked dance” website.
thank you for to share in topic
hello,mediafire says i can get the Bulgarian World Library only when i become paying member at mediafire.Could you reup on megaupload or rapidshare?
Regards,Bodhi Amol
It’s the first time i hear that… Did you try again?
Thank you for this music. The mediafire file is unavailable. Could you make it available in some way? 🙂
You should try again. i was running out of bandwidth but now it’s ok…
Hello,now it worked.It was a question of your bandwidth,as you wrote, but the problem is gone….
Thanks again,this time even in wav.format,i’m surprised…
I cant tell you how much I appreciate this blog.
I was just getting around to downloading this one and
Im getting this message:
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The owner will be notified that they are low on resources however MediaPro members can still download this file.
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Any clue why?
got it now. Thanks!
Please will you upload this on another site I’ve tried and failed for the past three days now. It’s very strange I’ve never encountered this problem from mediafire before.
Thanks!
Available at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZH7FH3VT
This is my rip and I think I am the unidentified person in the comments above.
See also http://skafunkrastapunk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=65902&p=398408&hilit=columbia+bulgaria#p398408