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This second volume of Le Mystere des voix
Bulgares features performances by the
Bulgarian State Radio and Televison Female
Choir and the Female Vocal Choir, Sofia won a
GRAMMY award in 1989.
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Elica Todorova & Stojan Jankulov - Water
Bulgaria - 5th on Eurovision 2007)
Yanka Rupkina Song: Ah, Mara
Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir
About Yanka Rupkina
Yanka Rupkina played a major role in the
growing popularity of Balkan music in the
1980s. Together with Stoyanka Boneva and Eva
Georgieva, Rupkina formed the Trio Bulgarka,
a vocal group affiliated with Le Mystere Des
Voix Bulgares.
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares gained
international prominence through their
contributions to the groundbreaking 1975
world music album Le Mystere des voix
Bulgares, originally released on the Swiss
label Disques Cellier and later reissued on
Britain's 4AD Records and the German Jaro
label.
Trio Bulgarka comprises Yanka Rupkina from
Strandja, Stoyanka Boneva from Pirin and Eva
Georgieva from Dobroudja. Their diversity of
regional backgrounds enabled them to create a
unique sound to their music. They signed to
record labels Bulgaria Balkanton and Hannibal
in 1987.
Two years later they featured on The Sensual
World album by Kate Bush on the songs "Deeper
Understanding", "Never Be Mine", and
"Rocket's Tail". In 1993 they appeared on
another Kate Bush album, The Red Shoes, in
the songs "You're the One", "The Song of
Solomon", and "Why Should I Love You?", which
also featured Prince. The trio have since
concentrated on solo projects but often
re-form for concert appearances.
Rupkina subsequently performed as a solist
for the national television and radio
Bulgaria group, the Balkana.
Yanka Rupkina appears on:
- Various Artists -- "Music of Bulgaria:
Balkana" (1987)
- Trio Bulgarka - "Forest Is Crying" (1988)
- Kate Bush - "Sensual world" (1989)
- Various Artists -- "Voices [MCA]" (1990)
- Various Artists -- "Voices [Hannibal]"
(1991)
- Kate Bush - "The Red Shoes" (1993)
- Various Artists -- "Heimatklange, Vol. 1"
(1994)
- Various Artists -- "Vocal Traditions of
Bulgaria" (1995)
- Leftfield - "Leftism" (1995)
- Merl Saunders - "Fiesta Amazonica" (1998)
- Various Artists -- "Female Factory: Live at
the Royal..." (2001)
- Various Artists -- "World Connection (2001)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - "Music From The
Motion Picture" (2001)
- Trans-Global Underground - "Impossible
Broadcasting" (2004)
- Yanka Rupkina -- "Keranka" (2005
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The songs: Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
Volume 2- This second volume of Le Mystere
des voix Bulgares features performances by
the Bulgarian State Radio and Televison
Female Choir and the Female Vocal Choir,
Sofia won a GRAMMY award in 1990.(Elica
Todorova & Stojan Jankulov - Water Bulgaria -
5th on Eurovision 2007)
The archaeological research of the Thracian
culture started in the 20th century and
especially after World War II, mainly on the
territory of Southern Bulgaria. As a result
of intensive excavation works in the 1960s
and 1970s a number of Thracian tombs and
sanctuaries were discovered. More significant
among them are: the Tomb of Sveshtari, the
Tomb of Kazanlak, Tatul, Seuthopolis,
Perperikon, the Tomb of Aleksandrovo,
Sarmizegetusa, etc.
Also a large number of elaborately crafted
gold and silver treasure sets from the 5th
and 4th century BC were unearthed. In the
following decades those were exposed in
museums around the world, thus gaining
popularity and becoming an emblem of the
ancient Thracian culture. Since the year
2000, Bulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov
has made discoveries in Central Bulgaria
which were summarized as "The Valley of the
Thracian Kings".
On 19 August 2005, some Bulgarian
archaeologists announced they had found the
first Thracian capital, which was situated
near Karlovo in Bulgaria. A lot of polished
ceramic artifacts (pieces of roof-tiles and
Greek-like vases) were discovered revealing
the fortune of the city. The Bulgarian
Ministry of Culture declared its support to
the excavations.
In Dabene, Bulgaria, a cache of more than
15,000 gold Thracian artifacts were
discovered, including thousands of rings. In
August 2006 a sensational archaeological find
was made near the village of Dubovo. A
Thracian dagger made of an alloy of gold and
platinum, sharp, and in perfect condition,
was found in a tomb near the village of
Dubovo.
tombs with mural paintings have been
discovered near the town of Kazanlak so far.
They prove the wide use of art of painting as
a detail of inside decoration of the Thracian
tombs during the Hellenic period. Undoubtedly
the most interesting tomb is the Kazanlak
Thracian Tomb.
An important moment for a substantial
research of the history, culture and the
urban development of the Thracian tribes
during the early Hellenic period are the
salvage excavations, undertaken because of
the building of "Koprinca" dam. An ancient
Thracian town -- Sevtopolis is discovered.
Around 6000 years ago, between the fifth and
the second millennium B.C., the climate
became warmer and the icebergs on the Earth
quickly started melting. The water in the
oceans and seas rose with 3 meters.
Fewer than 100 are the Thracian undermounded
constructed structures in Bulgaria, which are
usually called tombs. Fifteen buildings like
these are put up in Kazanlak valley.
In the middle of our country, cuddled between
the two big mountain ranges Stara planina and
Sredna gora, is situated the Kazanlak valley.
The land, amazing with its beauty, inebriates
with its sweet scents and fascinates with its
ancient history.
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winner JOURNEY LAND THRACIAN KINGS
Legend has it that about 9 - 10 millennia BC,
after the submerging of Atlantis the only
surviving principality was the "Manou -
meaning "Principality of Knowledge"). The
survivors found shelter in South-Eastern
Europe, where they merged with the natives.
The legend says that this is how the
Thracians came to be. From the Carpathians to
the Aegean, from the Adriatic to the Black
Sea the numerous Thracian tribes spread but
their peace did not lost very long. Then in
the III century BC other tribes invaded from
North. The Illyrians swept from Northwest and
pushed the Thracians eastward. As a result
some of the Thracian tribes searched for new
land in the Near East. The Thracians were
warriors, horse breeders, potters, weavers,
goldsmiths and philosophers. Democritus and
Protagoras were born in Abdera Thrace. They
took part in the Trojan War as Trojan
allies.. Homer first mentioned them in
"Iliad". Courageous and daring warriors, they
were hired mercenaries in the armies of the
Hellenic era. Later they joined the Roman
auxiliary troops, and from the second century
onwards were in their legions. The Thracian
soldiers were fearless, ready to face death,
believing that beyond was another, better
life, closer his Gods. Spartacus was one of
them. During the IV century BC, Phillip II of
Macedonia conquered the lands of the
Thracians. His physician, a Thracian, was the
father of Aristotle, the great philosopher
who in his turn became Alexander the Great's
tutor. Celts came to the Thracian lands at
the beginning of the third century BC. They
established a number of kingdoms on these
lands, after stealing the gold from Apollo's
tomb, which they dispersed to settle over the
entire continent, reaching the British Isles,
settling in Ireland. At the beginning of the
1st century AD, the Thracians joined the
Roman Empire. Then they became part of the
Eastern Roman Empire. The Slavs who in their
turn came to the Balkan Peninsula during the
4-th century AD, and became part of the
ethnic roots of the Bulgarians. The
Thracians, through their philosophers,
impacted the ancient Mediterranean
civilization (Greco-Hellenic and Roman).
Their cultural heritage, aside from the
atomistic theory of Democritus, or the view
that man is the measure of all things as
propounded by Protagoras, and the Cybernetic
view of the World that Artistotle proposed,
reflecting the Thracian religion that the
world was made of small particles in constant
motion. They has left us with many examples
of gold, silver and bronze ornaments, arms,
tools and vessels. The Thracian culture that
emerged, blending their own unique view of
the world with those of other nations, became
a link between Europe and the East.
Indicative of the rich spiritual make-up, the
Thracians, was the multiplicity of religious
cults they upheld. They worshipped the
Horseman and his female counterpart Bendida;
they partook in the Dionysian orgies; upheld
the Orphic teaching, based on the Dionysian
cult, a God in the Thracian Pantheon. We
would like you to join us on a tour to the
valley of the Thracians rulers. Today, this
valley is replete with tumular Temples and
burial Monuments, Mounts, testifying to their
great civilization .The multitude of gold,
silver, iron and clay objects found so far
and the numerous studied tombs are lasting
marks left from the ancient Thracians'
culture, revealing their notions of the
world. It is here, at the bottom of Koprinka
dam - lake one can still find remains of
Seuthopolis - the Odrysae state capital from
the time of Seuthe III, the only Thracian
city that has been completely excavated,
preserved and researched. With this tale we
would like to take you to the dawn of our
civilization, the way it has been preserved
by wisdom of time as we believe that in order
to live better in the contemporary world one
should know its ancient roots.
My encounters with the monuments of human
civilization on the territory of Bulgaria
today were an exciting challenge for me.
Working on this project gave me the
opportunity to travel again across my
beautiful country viewing it from an entirely
new perspective.
I had the opportunity to visit the Valley of
the Thracian Kings near Kazanlak and
ex¬amine in tranquility the magnificent
paintings of the tomb from Kazanlak, the tomb
from Alexandrovo near Haskovo and the strange
stone figures in the tomb from Svesluary near
the town of Isperih. The feeling was odd - in
the complete silence I had the sense of being
an intruder let in there by mistake - a
disturber of the eternal peace of these
sophisticated and proud people.
While photographing I started painting with
the light - my basic means of expression -
rather than simply "lighting up".
I felt thai taking just "photographs of
museum exponents" was not enough for me and
wherever I came across a human face - in
pottery, silver and gold - I aimed at
achieving my attitude while portraying living
people. I tried to reach a human touch with
these beautiful images.
It may sound strange to you but I started
finding resemblance between the human images
- objects of my work, and people I meet
accidentally during my journeys around
Bulgaria. And it already seems to me
completely natural, despite the thousands of
years rhat have passed - today we arc
Temporarily inhabiting the highest stratum,
the same places where the heroes of this
exhibition have once lived.
I had the ultimate pleasure of associating
with my hosts - the museum people of Varna,
Burgas, Sozopol and Nessebar, Kazanlak,
Haskovo, Nova Zagora and Stara Zagora,
Plovdiv, Vratza, Pleven, Silistra, Sofia -
the Archeological Museum and the National
Historical Museum. Warm people met me
everywhere, excellent specialists bestowing
great care on rich museum collections.
Seeing the wealth of these extraordinary
museums spread all over Bulgaria, I realized
that what I have photographed for this
travelling exhibition is only the peak of an
iceberg. These are just the main strokes of a
picture, which is constantly complemented and
enriched by new discoveries. Ihe museums'
funds and their permanent exhibitions display
are the source of inexhaustible opportunities
for comparisons and reflections. Therefore
the true place for a real communion with our
unique cultural-historical heritage is
Bulgaria itself - the cradle of ancient
civilizations.
Ivo Hadjimishev
The lands of present day Bulgaria arc
situated at a crossroads - very important in
antiquity - connecting culturally undeveloped
Europe with the developed civilizations of
Asia Minor. The migrations through over it
were directed from the poor North to the rich
South, and cultural influences were going in
the opposite direction.
The compactness of the ancient cultural
layers in the Bulgarian lauds is so saturated
that even the large scale treasure-hunting
during the last two decades was not able to
destroy it.
The finds from the Neolithic period (7-6
millennia BC) give an idea of beliefs and art
of the first farmers, who were closely
connected with the Anatolian culture.
The Chalcolith the Copper Age (5th millennia
BC) gave birth to a new European
civilization. The Varna necropolis comprises
quantities of splendid gold objects unseen
before - symbols of power and sacred symbols
of the early rulers.
The Bronze Age starts a new page in the
ideology of the ancient world. At the very
end of this period the Thracians - the most
numerous people after the Indians, came to
the Balkans.
The presence of the Thracians is marked
through ritual burials of treasures. Thrace
shows the richest in Europe findings of this
kind. Many precious objects came to us from
the treasures
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