Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (album)

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
4AD reissue cover
Studio album by Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir
Released	1975 (1975)
Genre	Bulgarian folk music
Length	36:06
Label	Disques Cellier
Compiler	Marcel Cellier
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USA release (1987)
Nonesuch Cover (1987)

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (translated as "The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices") is an album of Bulgarian folk songs performed by the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir with guest-soloists Yanka Rupkina, Kalinka Valcheva and Stefka Sabotinova.

The album was the result of fifteen years of work by Swiss ethnomusicologist and producer Marcel Cellier and was released in 1975 on his small Disques Cellier label.

In the 1980s, Ivo Watts-Russell (founder of 4AD) was introduced to the choir from a third or fourth generation audio cassette lent to him by Peter Murphy, singer from the band Bauhaus. He became thoroughly entranced by the music, and tracked down and licensed the recordings from Cellier. So in 1986, it was re-released on the 4AD label in the UK, in 1987 the Nonesuch label in the US and on the Philips label in other territories.

Track listing

1. "Pilentze Pee" [Pilentze Sings] - 2:31
2. "Svatba" [The Wedding Procession] - 1:27
3. "Kalimankou Denkou" [The Evening Gathering] - 5:06
4. "Strati Na Angelaki Doumasche" [Haiduk Song] - 2:37
5. "Polegnala E Pschenitza" [Harvest Song from Thrace] - 2:02
6. "Messetschinko Lio Greïlivko" [Love Song from the Mountains] - 2:31
7. "Breï Yvane" [Dancing Song] - 1:31
8. "Erghen Diado" [Song of Schopsko] (Lionder) - 2:50
9. "Sableyalo Mi Agontze" [The Bleating Lamb] - 4:31
10. "Prïtourïtze Planinata" [Song from the Thracian Plain] - 2:45
11. "Mir Stanke le" [Harvest Song from Thrace] - 3:10
12. "Schopska Pesen [Diaphonic Chant] - 1:27
13. "Polegnala E Todora" (Love Song) - 3:38

External links

• Marcel Cellier présente le Mystère des Voix Bulgares at Discogs (list of releases)