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- Friday, June 17, 2011
The Guardian's List of 50 Key Events in the History of World, Folk Music Includes Several Ties to Nonesuch
The Guardian and Observer have published their list of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music, which includes four events that also have a direct link to the history of Nonesuch Records, events involving Ry Cooder and the Buena Vista Social Club, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Youssou N'Dour, and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, and one that would later impact Kronos Quartet.
About this Album
The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir’s first studio recording since its two anthologies launched a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1980s, Ritual draws principally on Christmas carols and tunes meant for St. Lazar’s Day, a health and fertility holiday occurring the Saturday before Palm Sunday.
Credits
MUSICIANS
The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir
Dora Hristova, conductor
Voices: Radka Alexova, Vassilka Andonova, Olga Borissova, Vassilka Damyanova, Nadejda Hvoyneva, Violeta Marinova, Roussana Nedialkova, Kremena Stantcheva, Binka Dobreva, Rouslana Vasileva, Roumiana Milanova, Rossitza Lazarova, Silvia Vassileva, Elisaveta Hineva, Elitchka Krastanova, Elizabeta Petrova, Marina Ianakieva, Evgenia Miloucheva, Kalinka Kaneva, Zlatka Stanilova, Kostadinka Iankova, Emilia Ivanova, Evgenia Vassileva, Violeta Petkova
Guest Male Vocalists: Daniel Spassov, Vladimir Kouzov
Instrumentalists: Atanas Valtchev, gadulka (fiddle); Ivan Dentchev, tambura (mandolin); Dantcho Radoulov, kaval (flute); Ludmil Sotirov, gaida (bagpipe); Evgeni Eremiev, contrabass
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Nikolai Kaufmann
Recorded December 1993 by GEGA New Ltd. At Radio Sofia, Bulgaria
Instrumental music produced by Daniel Kahn and Atanas Valtchev
Recorded July 1994 in Sofia, Bulgaria
Produced in cooperation with Disques Cellier
Associate producer: Vladimir Barov
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine
Art direction and design: John William Costa
Cover illustration by Melanie Marder Parks
Executive Producers:
Daniel Kahn for Elektra Nonesuch
Marcel Cellier for Disques Cellier
