From Bulgaria with Love

Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: January 19, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000034AF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > World Music > Europe > Eastern Europe > Bulgaria

Track Listings

1. Pippero

2. Bulgarian Rhapsody

3. Devoiko

4. The Voyage

5. Jana

6. Guns and Paprica

7. Dancing to the Bagpipe

8. Sofia Sound Machine

9. The Balcanic

10. Plovdiv

11. Pippero [Italian Version]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Novelty Remixes, May 18, 2004

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dinska "phoenixwinged" (Chicagoland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Bulgaria with Love (Audio CD)

I'm reviewing this mainly because this CD comes up so high in the list when you search for Bulgarian music. (And of course, because I have the album.)

Now, this was not the greatest attempt at using hooks and loops from Bulgarian CHORAL music. These really weren't even lifted from village music, wedding music, horos, gaida or any other more typical genres of Bulgarian folk music.

This is also a NOVELTY ALBUM. Somewhere, every Sunday night, a Bulgarian Doctor Demento plays a track off of this CD. Remember that before purchasing or judging.

Sue me, though, I liked this CD. I don't like chorals or the Mysterious Voices very much and to me this improved what they do. Thank goodness chorals are NOT representative of Bulgarian music.

If you are interested in Bulgarian folk music please do a search for the genres I listed earlier and for Valya Balkanska, the most famous Bulgarian folk singer there is. If you're looking for BG music with a modern twist, Theodore Spassov has put folk influence into his jazz CD's. Slavi Trifonov is probably the biggest star performer in Bulgaria in the moment and his band plays a variety of popular styles.

Unfortunately, Bulgarian dance music these days sounds like it could come from any country in Europe and has almost none of the local flavor it should. If this album had been a serious attempt at mixing proper samples from BG music maybe a new genre of dance might sprung from it. In any case, don't listen to people who aren't Bulgarian, or who don't know BG music and try to review it. But, don't buy this album without being warned, either!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Going to the well once too often, July 9, 2003

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chefdevergue (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: From Bulgaria with Love (Audio CD)

This was simply a very very bad idea. Opportunistic producers tried to milk as much cash as they could out of a trend-setting sound, and ended up largely killing the trend. The Bulgarian choir is very good at what they do, but someone should have known better than try this wretched cross-over album. The results were ghastly and unfortunate.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The worst "Mystere" album i heard, March 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: From Bulgaria with Love (Audio CD)

On this CD the Bulgarian state radio choir tries to brake the pop charts with "popular" music mixed with their great ethnic bulgarian songs. The mixture is strange sounding and just 1 song is worth listening to. Better buy a normal "Le Mystere" album. END