Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Label:  4ad 
Date:  1988
Length:  0:00
Format:  LP
Genre:  Vocal; Gothic Rock
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Sings)    
      2.  
      		 Svatba (The Wedding)    
      3.  
      		 Kalimankou Denkou (The Evening Gathering)    
      4.  
      		 Strati na Angelaki Doumasche (Haiduk song)    
      5.  
      		 Polegnala e Pschenitza (Harvest Song from Thrace)    
      6.  
      		 Messetschinko lio Greilivko (Love Song from the Mountains)    
      7.  
      		 Brei Yvane (Dancing Song)    
      8.  
      		 Erghen Diado (Song of Schopsko)    
      9.  
      		 Sableyalo mi Agontze (The Bleating Lamb)    
      10.  
      		 Pritouritze Planinata (Song from the Thracian Plain    
      11.  
      		 Mir Stanke le (Harvest Song from Thrace)    
      12.  
      		 Schopska Pesen (Diaphonic Chant)    
      13.  
      		 Polegnala e Todora (Love Song)    
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      When Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy played Ivo an unlabelled tape of a Bulgarian women's choir that he'd been given by an acquaintance, 4AD's founder was stunned by the power of their voices and embarked upon a frantic quest to learn more about them. It transpired that the tape in question was titled Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares [The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices], and that it consisted of field recordings made over a 15-year period by ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier. Ivo decided to license the recordings, and the resulting 4AD album proved massively popular. The label's first release of 1988 was a second volume of Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares featuring a further 18 performances drawn from the Cellier archive.