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Album review from DUKYAN MELOMAN |
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WRITTEN BY Administrator
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 |
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cd ÁALKANSKY - "Kuker" - 2009 limited edition Balkansky is the new edition of Kuker Music which comes to celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of the most appreciable labels for Bulgarian music. The project is planned and filled uncompromisingly – with music design and message. It stands on its own path connecting tradition and contemporary, it is known by its modern sound and is both illustrative and abstract – it is just that there is nothing like that.
It is an album which is filled with life. According to the authors of the project Ivan Shopov and Ivo Hristov - every person is a bell that should start ringing to find out their true vocation. The authors have met each other 4 years ago and soon they realized that they are speaking the same language and then they made the project Balkansky or Balkan Sky. After year and a half hard work, they selected the 11 compositions from 30 and combine them with Kukers photos made by Ivo Hristov during the Kuker festival in Pernik, Bulgaria. Theres and other musicians that contributes to the album with thåir deep emotional musical accomplishment . Theodosii Spasov plays incredibly not only the kaval flute, but also trumpet. Peyo Peev plays the rebec (gadulka) and Vlada Tomova and Denitsa Serafimova sing in the key compositions “ Letter From America” and “ The Green Balkan Mountains ”. It is worth listening these last two tracks from the album, because you can feel the denouement, the message and the hope hidden inside it. Nearly 10 years ago, when the song “Wretched Youth” was sang in Iglika Trifonova’s film “Letter From America” , it purpose was to awake the Bulgarians who abandoned their home and went to pull up their roots in America, today this song comes back from America, sang by Vlada Tomova in the streets of New York to awake the people who are still asleep in Bulgaria and still do not want to recognize ancient heritage of this land as their own and that is the reason why Balkansky has some cultural layers – the ritual beginning in the face of the kuker and Christian tradition carried by the symbol of the bells and modernism. But the purpose of the album is not to shock and impose its message ultimately to the people – in its own fine way it has music for everyone, and everyone can find the beauty inside it in many different ways. “Wretched Youth” ends with the sounds of taking off airplane, or lets just say it ends with an open-end… and then comes the water and Denitza’s magical performance of “The Green Balkan Mountains”, you can feel the light beyond retrieve coming to your hearts.
Listen for a sound, look-out! May be your spiritual bell is ringing right this moment!
Reviewed by Margarita Borisova - Dukyan Meloman records store
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 July 2009 )
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