From FlyPR: ” Les Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices with Lisa Gerrard ‘BooCheeMish'”
FOLKLORIC MUSICAL LEGENDS, THE MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, RELEASE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 20 YEARS
Les Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices, No image credit
AND COLLABORATE WITH VOCALIST LISA GERRARD OF DEAD CAN DANCE
Lisa Gerrard. Sanvean
Prophecy Productions is set to release, BooCheeMish, internationally on May 25th, 2018
on LP, CD, digital, and specially designed limited edition box set formats for mega-fans.
April 6, 2018 (Los Angeles, California) – Prophecy Productions is proud to announce the release of The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices’ first new album in over twenty years on May 25th, 2018. The album titled BooCheeMish features globally revered vocalist and Dead Can Dance co-founder Lisa Gerrad on four tracks. This collection of astounding new songs combines the choir’s unique and internationally acclaimed vocal style with modern and world music influences.
The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices is an all-female choir that dates back to the early 1950s. They deliver the striking and forceful harmonies innate to the Bulgarian singing tradition. Lisa Gerrard explains “When I went to go see those women when I was a kid…I thought that’s it, that’s the top, you can’t go any further!” And now performing with them she enthuses “it’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given (apart from receiving the holy spirit and having my daughter) this is it. This is it for me.” Gerrard’s contributions are co-written with Jules Maxwell, a musician with whom she has worked for several years. Gerrard has also garnered critical acclaim for her work on movie soundtracks including Gladiator and The Insider.
Peter Dundakov, who wrote and arranged the majority of the songs on BooCheeMish told Radio Bulgaria that “a conscious decision was made that the album should remain entirely acoustic. No electronic instruments are used, although at times the sound is quite modern and the album even features world-famous Bulgarian beatboxer SkilleR.”
Early on, the choir’s music found favor with famous admirers like Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Frank Zappa, members of Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Grateful Dead. But it was in the 1980s when 4AD reissued the record that it got the attention of artists like Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and Lisa Gerrard. The album won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Recording in 1990. Choir members have worked with or been sampled by artists as diverse as Kate Bush, U2 and Drake.
The music has been described as “the marriage of the avant-garde and the Middle Ages,” which is testament to the ensembles ability to master Bulgaria’s diverse, age-old vocal traditions while simultaneously sounding strikingly modern and original. This is due to the unique choral music structure – multi-part a cappella arrangements that transform its collective sound into something other worldly or not quite human. Conductor Dora Hristova describes it as “a natural, piercing sound for the outdoors to carry across the fields or from hilltop to hilltop. The sound is created in the larynx and resonates in the chest. It requires great pressure of the breath to create the sound and you must be very strong to sing in this fashion.”
Executive Producer Boyana Bounkova has largely been responsible for this new album. She recently told Radio Bulgaria “I invited Petar Dundakov to write music for the choir. He is a young composer, but with experience in classical choir and orchestra music, and in the past – in pop music. [Lisa Gerrard is] also co-author of several of the songs. We also invited Irish composer Jules Maxwell…The choir sings to the accompaniment of different instruments and that too is something new, changing the way they sound altogether, bringing them closer to world music.”
“These are the singers that won [endorsements] from such pop superstars as Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, George Harrison, Bobby Mcferrin, Midori…” the Chicago Tribune wrote, “…it is a sound that preserves ancient folk traditions in contemporary arrangements-music that paradoxically is wedded to the Bulgarian soil but that seems to gather the whole world in its emotional embrace.”
The twelve tracks on the BooCheeMish CD are 1. Mome Malenko 2. Pora Sotunda (feat. Lisa Gerrard) 3. Rano Ranila 4. Mani Yanni (feat. Lisa Gerrard) 5. Yove 6. Sluntse 7. Unison (feat. Lisa Gerrard) 8. Zableyalo Agne 9. Tropanitsa 10. Ganka 11. Shandai Ya (feat. Lisa Gerrard) and 12. Stanka.
This album is recommended to fans of Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Kate Bush, Bjork, Steeleye Span, Mediaeval Baebes, Fawn Fables, ambient and world music aficionados as well as those who enjoy folkloric vocals, choirs and opera.
International release date for all formats is May 25th 2018:
Regular CD in digisleeve.
Single vinyl.
Limited edition SACD format for audiophiles (digitally remastered).
Limited 2 CD artbook edition (12” artbook with 60 pages and lyrics/liner notes/background information and beautiful photos).
Limited edition box set (with artbook, vinyl, SACD edition, 4 vinyl-sized art prints).
Album credits available upon request.
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