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Thread #136717   Message #3123913
Posted By: Fred McCormick
29-Mar-11 - 05:49 AM
Thread Name: Bulgarian CDs Going Cheap
Subject: Bulgarian CDs Going Cheap
Passion Music have a set of 3 CDs of Bulgarian field recordings, recorded in the '60s by Yves Moreau, which are currently on special offer.

They are called "Beyond the Mystery" - Village Music of Bulgaria, and they can be seen at Passion Music .

The price reduction isn't great, less than four quid for the entire set. However;-

1. The discs contain some of the finest music I ever heard coming out of Bulgaria.
2. The fact that they are on offer at all makes me wonder if they're about to disappear off the market.

Either way, if you're into the music of Eastern Europe, and you haven't already got these, you will certainly want them.

Oh, and despite the title, the performances bear not the slightest resemblance to those awful apparatchik ersatz choirs which passed for folk music in the days of the Soviet Bloc.