In 1974 our music history professor brought in a record of the Bulgarian ladies and said "This is not part of the class, but you need to hear it." Sublimely fine!
Everyone needs to hear it. I remember about 20 years ago when this group took the US by storm, thanks to John Schaefer in NYC with his program called New Sounds. It is now available only as a podcast.
@@KrampusDerWilde what speakers you got it on? i can hear a bit for sure. its on the border tho for me if that makes sense. it widens the sound no end. like adding saturation etc.
caught off guard when i realised just how small of a group this is, those super dense harmonies and very "forward" tone make it sound so rich, like it's a much larger choir. love it.
I cannot imagine how you snagged the name "h" but you appear to be worthy of it. Your comment here expresses "spot on", things that are very difficult to put into words.
A lot of their chords are justly tuned, (basically, singing intervals that can be expressed as simple fractions), these make the overtones of their voices align and ring loudly. One of my favourite musical concepts
Well I think its the original that made it popular even tho its a folk song and probably there are bulgarian choir that have sung it. The rest are inspired by it and often foreign people who try to learn it. Some make very good performances but yes its not the same.
The name of this song is "A kaval is playing" and lyrics are: A kaval is playing, mother, Up-down, mother, up-down, mother. Kaval is playing, mother, Up-down, mother, outside the village. I'll go there, mother, to see it, To see it, mother, to hear it. If it is played by a fellow villager I'll love him from dawn to noon. If it is played by a stranger I'll love him for my entire life.
This is a legacy that should never be lost. If humanity ever faces extinction this is one of the things that should be saved in the archives of our civilization.
This music is not exactly a legacy, but a newly composed and arranged song by Filip Kutev, one of the most productive and inspired Bulgarian musician of the 60-80 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Kutev It is inspired by the old traditional songs, but trust me they are way more "rough" than that ...
This is more that bulgarian folk. This is truly a "human specie hymn". I can't describe exactly what i feel when i hear these voices, but i can tell that its like hear the voice of the first humans in the world, like the introduction to our complex way that we took in what we call now history. Its like being teleported to these ancient times where towns and cities, or cars and airplanes, countries, science, economy, politics, war, armies, pollution, companies, computers, or all the things that took us away from our natural way of life didn't exist, and only existed rock tools, fire, legends and myths to explain the mysterious natural world, cave paintings and families of humans living in their own clan in a whole unexplored world. I don't know if that explains accurately what i feel but its something like that.
This is what reminds us how beautiful we all are. How powerful we really are to create more and more efficient systems that support love and compassion for one another. Protection for one another etc. ❤
The kaval is playing, mother, up, down, mother, up, down, mother. The kaval is playing mother, up, down, mother, below the village. I will go, mother, to see it, to see it, mother, to hear it. If it's a guy from our village I'll love him from dawn till dusk, If it's a stranger I'll love him all my life.
@ivan nikolov never knew that it was this old.ofc it got fckd over by ottomans like so many others,but still.Its not like Romania ,who got merged 3 principality into one in the 19th century.
Thank you for the good words, as a Bulgarian I think , the history of Bulgaria needs to be given the attention that it deserves even more than the folklore, believe me.
@@svetlanadrezgic2672 Bulgaria has a thousand yrs of history , Serbia was constructed as a country much later, not without the help of Byzantium to serve the purpose of knife in the back of the Bulgarians , thus protecting Byzantium of one too strong Bulgaria as a neighbor. As we can see , this works well till the present day .Serbia has committed one of the biggest crimes in history and biggest genocide of the Macedonian Bulgarians for which has never apologized or admitted till present day ,neither has learned anything ,nor grown up ... As for the language, please, one would have thought that you are teachers of the so called North Macedonians 😉- only the Russians and Serbs did not understood that their language and religion are on the bases of the old Bulgarian , although as we read, already some honest Russian academic workers have admitted that 55% of the Russian language is the old Bulgarian and most of the so called ''SLavic'' countries use today (there are no Slavs, there are Bulgarians and their ancestors ).But let's listen to the music.
@@edelahaye first this was not arranged by Philip Koutev but by Petar Lyondev as written below. Koutev worked in 1950s...this was 70 years ago...definitely not recent...yes, all these composers need acknowledgement for their work..they use traditional bulgarian harmonies like seconds...but in your comment you are degrading this tradition
@@yakilad7746 Actually we don't have anything to do with tatars. Mongol-Tatars (The Golden Horde) came much later trying to conquer Europe during the Second Bulgarian "Ëmpire". There is not much left of them except some 10-20 % currently living in the so called Tatarstan (A name invented by the soviets). The Proto-bulgar tribe has much older history than tatars. Bulgaria on Danube river has slightly different history than the other parts of the tribe.
It is not that hard but you have to practice. Plus we Bulgarians are used to dissonance snd uneven beats. The traditional polyphony in Bulgarian folk songs are in seconds.
In addition to the singing, which we all agree is out of this world, let's also appreciate the traditional garments which I think are almost equally beautiful. The patterns, the colors, the flowers/headdress, even the shoes, all very elegant and beautiful, and evocative of nature and the Sun. Bulgarian folklore is incredible and massively underappreciated, everyone needs to know about this beautiful culture! I hope these young women are touring the world.
@@marinka1895 You're right, they don't look authentic. Especially the red head coverings look very cheap and basic. It's a shame, they should have used authentic garments for this incredible performance, but maybe they couldn't get or afford them. I still appreciate that they represented the spirit of Bulgarian folklore.
@chenrik These are the lyrics: The kaval is playing, mother, up, down, mother, up, down, mother. The kaval is playing mother, up, down, mother, below the village. I will go, mother, to see it, to see it, mother, to hear it. If it's a guy from our village I'll love him from dawn till dusk, If it's a stranger I'll love him all my life. Kaval is a type of musical instrument similar to flute.
its because you are raised listening to western music . when they hear jazz harmony it probably does the same effect on them haha so weird how we have musical pallate the same as food
I'm confused - you talk about voice leading, yet the time stamp points to a single chord. I agree that the voice leading in this song is stunning, but there's no voice leading at the time stamp you specified.
This is too amazing. The crazy difficult 5/4 rhythm. The loud, proud dissonances that resolve into haunting perfect 4ths and 5ths, the fearless voices.
@@friendlyrobotasmrThracian and Macedonian means a person from the geographical region of Thrace and Macedonia. We have a Slavic culture and language. Just like Amazon, is a region, but today there are no Amazons.
I just did a little TH-cam dive into other performances of this song. These ladies should be very proud, this is outstanding. I'm now going to go so I can 'rewind' this again... Only the 7th time...
What are these harmonies??? UNREAL. I want to write music with these harmonies but I have no idea what notes are being sung because the harmony ALWAYS catches my attention. Art. Absolutely art.
Originally it was Xena Warrior Princess that brought me here, but after doing more research, I am truly smitten by the beauty and conviction of Bulgarian vocals. Such a rich culture!. As a proud Nigerian, I know the value of culture and tradition and I can definitely appreciate that in Bulgarian culture....plus the women in the video are gorgeous....lol
hello ! I'm glad we are all recognising different cultures and countries! I'm glad you have listened to us and I find it amazing how Nigerian culture has been introducing to Bulgarian :)
This was a magical performance and Bulgaria is a magical land, I recommend everyone visit, it really is the hidden gem of Europe. So much culture, history, beautiful nature, folklore, food... they have it all.
I can't understand a single word of the lyrics, but the music, the harmonies, the runs, the trills, the incredible "sounds," all of it just sends shivers up and down, raises goosebumps, and brings a HUGE smile to my face! LOVE THIS MUSIC.
Ha, yes you could fiel it without words, isn't it.It is a joyful song for young, still unmarried girls.A girl wander which boy to choose until a bagpipe plays."Bagpipe plays"=Kaval sviri🎶
@@dalia_mar Fascinating... Crazy how music can be so culturally dependent. To my ears, very little about this sounds joyful, it sounds bittersweet, almost heartbreaking, very dramatic. There is a change around 1:28 but I'm still not sure I'd call it joyful; for the final 30 seconds my ears can't quite decide how I feel lol.
I've had this on repeat for about 30 minutes and I can't stop crying. There are no words to describe the beauty of this melody. Thank you Bulgaria. Much love
I had the same experience years ago when I heard Prituri se Planinata sung a capella by the Bulgarian Women's National Choir on the album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. I offer you a poor recording of it on youtube that was very hard (for me) to find. th-cam.com/video/dfqxE3EgrxY/w-d-xo.html
My friend...one day you know that bulgarian and hungarian are real brothers,it\s not joke....yeah....language is too different,but.....history and begining is same....
It’s so fucking hard to find this piece sung correctly with that AMAZING whiny quality and the wavy traditional riff type deal the S1 took at the end. Pure PERFECTION. Amazing, utterly amazing.
Have you noticed that whiny quality you talked about in Slavic folk music in general? The Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian Lemko etc women have this haunting, wild, high pitched whine that sounds fucking amazing. I never heard this until I went to a concert in Slovakia with many folk singers from around Europe... and I noticed that it’s inherent in many different forms of Slavic music. I wonder if there is a name for this style of singing.
I guess you mean 1:47. That part made me feel like I was rising from my seat. Astonishing. It's a bit like a series of "turns" but rhythmically a little different to how turns feature in Western classical music
First time I heard this I cried. Simply beautiful. The melody, chords, emotion and little story… for some reason it just makes me very emotional. A beautiful piece of art.
Ofcourse it will make you sad,cause all bulgarian folklore is inspired by the horrific conditions we used to live durin 500 years of turkish ottoman occupation and slavery....can you imagine what iz like for white beautiful christian girl to be kidnapped and raped from dirty ignorant and illiterate turk muslim....and what humiliation for her family,it is what made a lot of young bulgarians to go in the mountains and become haiduts(freedom fighters and protectors of christians during ottoman slavery)....also many bulgarians are focefuly made to addopt islam😪,many bulgarian children were kidnapped to become jenicaries it is called the blood tax,not to speak for the genocide we were put under......the turks used to kill with no mercy some times tens of thousand of people ......god hates them above all and they will dissappear
@@juanb890 Kaval (a flute-like instrument) is playing, mother, up, down, mother, up, down, mother. The kaval is playing mother, up, down, mother, outside the village. I will go, mother, to see it, to see it, mother, to hear it. If it's a lad from our village I'll love him from dawn till dusk, If it's a lad from the neighboring village I'll love him all my life.
Try Making a cyborg from the 1995 animated movie: Ghost in the Shell. You'll find the same kind of vocal structures mixed with traditional nuptial Japanese music. It is a masterpiece that was inspired by those Bulgarian folkloric songs. Won't lie, it isn't necessarily easy to approche but you already like this so...
I'm a puddle of tears every single time I hear this. I had to come back now that I heard it in the new documentary "Trees And Other Entanglements." Of course, I'm in tears all over again.
At the risk of sounding melodramatic, there's something profoundly and disturbingly moving about this harmony. It's as if I've died, and I'm being greeted by valkyries to the warrior's afterlife. I'm shaking.
And the song is just about the yearning for love to come from a nearby village. Basically the unpredictability of life. Says a lot about the song how those feelings are presented through the music.
That's what it's supposed to be. Bulgarian folk music originates in invocations and chants for shooing the bad spirits away and for calling forth the dead of for invoking dead loved ones.
It was fitting music to include on the Xena: Warrior Princess soundtrack! This is solely how I got into Bulgarian music (and I'm from Australia). It's truly something special.
It’s a very very ancient way of singing, and was used for ritualistic purposes during spiritual events back when things were still pagan. Something very similar is the Kulning way of singing in Scandinavia, which is now a folk motif but was originally a way to “open the doors” to the spirit realm. So that might be the reason this kind of singing (it’s called Bilyi Holos or White Voice btw) gives you those kind of feelings. It’s speaking to something deeper within you.
Can you imagine hearing this ring out over fields and reverberate off the side of mountains as you carry your basket or drive your cattle or bathe your child or kneel to pray. Otherworldly
Prekrasne naše bugarske slavenske djevojke, a muzika isto tako, puni moje srce ponosom što sam slaven i što imamo takvu zajedničku tradiciju, i kod nas se pjeva isti melos. Pozdrav iz Hrvatske, slava Slavenima!
@@user-uk1bi4fp4z Please stop spreading these fringe theories that we are not Slavs, you're embarrassing us. Genetically we are only about 50-60% Slavic, but culturally and linguistically we are a Slavic country 100% and part of the Slavic world. Достатъчно слушам македонска пропаганда че сме татари, нямам нужда да чувам и от българи подобни глупости.
Sang this in undergrad actually, and safe to say we could not touch this power. That top voice at 1:46 that flickers out of the blend on “kaval” with that trill/yodel effect… it is so beyond perfectly executed. It’s like, this wild primal joy overtook her. Which makes sense, this is a very joyful song when you translate the lyrics. Good lord this is spectacular.
How did you guys go about learning this song? I do play cello but I've never been part of a choir like this before and I find it fascinating. Do you all read sheet music for the individual vocal parts and learn songs that way? If so, do you ever use some sort of reference like a piano to help you be able to hear and learn your part better? Or do you somehow listen to your isolated parts sang by someone else and memorize them that way, bringing it to the full group later? I'm honestly just really curious how a song like this is learned. The complex harmonies must make it that much more difficult to learn and pull off as a group, so what exactly is the process of learning this song for an ensemble?
@@STSGuitar16 great questions! I previously played violin before I sang full time so string player solidarity ✊ Basically, yes to any question you asked! All are ways you can tackle a song this complex. We had a choir member who had done it before OUR group did it, she helped teach it, and we also essentially broke the score down into little chunks and since we had heard the recording too that helped. A lot of it is being smart with reading music and watching your conductor carefully. But, you can’t get people to SOUND this way if they don’t. As in this would be considered a “belting” vocal style. I was studying it in my musical theatre track, many of my choir mates were classical ONLY which… is a style that doesn’t sound great on “Kaval Sviri” 😅 😂 Hope that helps! 😊
@@graceh.2193 thanks for answering! That’s pretty cool. Seems like a much more relaxed way to learn music versus just having the sheet music and learning it in your own. I may be wrong in saying this, but it sounds like it’s just a “whatever you need to do to learn your part, do it” lol. Did y’all have any people with perfect pitch who could just sight-read the sheet music for something like this? Sight-reading sheet music for an instrument is much easier considering you know where every note is along the neck and have reference notes all around you. Basically, you see a G in whatever octave and you know exactly where to go on the instrument to play it without having to search for it or anything. On a string instrument, a G is a G. When singing, that same G isn’t immediately obvious as to how it is supposed to sound unless you have perfect pitch and can read vocal music. Idk, I’m kinda rambling here lol but I just find the idea of seeing notes on a page and knowing exactly how to sing it with no outside reference (like a piano where you could play your part and learn it that way) to be fascinating. I’m just used to the instructions being clearly written in front of you and all you have to do is follow those instructions. With singing in a choir, those instructions are way less clear as to how they’re supposed to sound (if you don’t have perfect pitch), so to me it seems like a miracle that a choir could learn a song like this. What was your preferred way to learn it? Do you often read music, and if so are you actually paying attention to the notes on the page or more so the lyrics?
@@STSGuitar16 yeah totally get what you’re saying! we didn’t have anyone with perfect pitch- so that’s where listening to recordings often comes in SO clutch hahaha 😂😂 I will say a lot of singers can teach themselves RELATIVE pitch which I rely on quite a bit as an ex-Suzuki violinist myself. I think part of the challenge is, you never have to tune a human voice, so you’re never constantly listening to something like open A all the time to get into tune. You just go for it and follow your conductor. It’s so cool!
This is beautiful. Listen to all that harmony. The dissonant harmony , my God in Heaven thank you for giving us music. And by "us" I mean the entire human race.
In all my decades of being a musician and starting out in choirs.... This blew my mind. Their voices are tuned like the finest hand-crafted instruments. Their immediate volume control in unison, timing and diaphragm control for belting is unbelievable.
@@Robisquick check out his requiem of "nonsense syllables." - Adiemus, Songs of Sanctuary. Just the general feel of this piece, the tension and release make me think of Adiemus.
@@Robisquick I'm not sure my response posted. Check out the requiem-like, nonsense syllable work called "Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary." The overall mood and tensions / releases of Kaval sviri just kind of remind me of Adiemus... 🙂
Found this after an Adam Neely video, definitely did not disappoint
hell yeah it slaps dude
@@ThomasHeien those right harmonies, tho
it sounds like the ost from Ghost in the shell
@@coda5934 I heard the Ghost OST was inspired by Bulgarian music
yeah same. I cant wait to transcribe this. there is just so much to learn
In 1974 our music history professor brought in a record of the Bulgarian ladies and said "This is not part of the class, but you need to hear it." Sublimely fine!
th-cam.com/video/sSiX-F50Quc/w-d-xo.html Petya Paneva - "Avram Zornitsa thought", Castings in the dark, The Voice of Bulgaria 2021
it should be part of the class. more interesting than boring history of opera lol
@@myname-mz3lo FACTS!
Everyone needs to hear it. I remember about 20 years ago when this group took the US by storm, thanks to John Schaefer in NYC with his program called New Sounds. It is now available only as a podcast.
I love this spontaneous joy of sharing something that you consider valuable
These dissonant harmonies are UNREAL and their skill is unmatched. Truly a cosmic sound.
Dissonant?
@@KrampusDerWilde Dissonant as in the lack of harmony, and yet it feels just right...
@@notjustmedamnit that's strange, never heard any dissonance here
@@KrampusDerWilde what speakers you got it on? i can hear a bit for sure. its on the border tho for me if that makes sense. it widens the sound no end. like adding saturation etc.
@@kanedNunable you can hear "a _bit_ of dissonance". What does that even mean?
if a normal choir makes me think of angels, this choir makes me think of biblically accurate angels
Didn't they look like demons(biblically accurate)?
Good one :D
How do only eleven women make a sound like that of a hundred? This music is just incredible and their skills are beyond belief.
bulgarian people had few milleniums to practice...we are very ancient
Reverb.
not tiktiok fortnite memes ?
It's called harmonies
@@AsierBenito lol no.
caught off guard when i realised just how small of a group this is, those super dense harmonies and very "forward" tone make it sound so rich, like it's a much larger choir. love it.
I cannot imagine how you snagged the name "h" but you appear to be worthy of it. Your comment here expresses "spot on", things that are very difficult to put into words.
@@pappyfiddle TH-cam display names are not required to be unique
A lot of their chords are justly tuned, (basically, singing intervals that can be expressed as simple fractions), these make the overtones of their voices align and ring loudly. One of my favourite musical concepts
the wide mix also helps for sure!
Makes me miss my days singing in an chamber choir.
I wasn't expecting to be listening to Bulgarian folk music today, but now I can't get enough of it!
same here!
Watch The Third Miracle. Wonderful film and Bulgarian folk music
Hear them LIVE ! It's much more impressive than a video .
Your comment killed me 😂Here you go King you dropped this 👑
Ghost in the Shell brought me here
I have heard at least 30 interpretations of this song, and this group by far is the best. They are nailing the intensity and the rythm. Perfect
Well I think its the original that made it popular even tho its a folk song and probably there are bulgarian choir that have sung it. The rest are inspired by it and often foreign people who try to learn it. Some make very good performances but yes its not the same.
I completely agree.
th-cam.com/video/H0xfhkuKKjA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=r59cuJopNeLMv26u
Because they are Bulgarian
I agree, it is by far the best to me
I heard that the Ghost in The Shell OST was inspired feom Bulgarian women's choirs so I was very intrigued, and now I am in love with this.
actually I believe is this one th-cam.com/video/5v3piS-mScI/w-d-xo.html
Here for the same reason!
That's how I found this music, too!!
It also reminds me Geinoh Yamashirogumi
@WgoodT - with good tasteпиленце пее / pilence pee
When the aliens come to destroy the planet and they ask for a single reason why not, let these girls sing.
😁👌👍
They are aliens themselves 🖖
@@tunahansari9283 *listen the girls singing* I like what you got! Good job!
the harmonies😭😍
we tried that... someone clearly didn't watch monsters vs aliens...
This is what heaven sounds like
Or the endboss in your japanese game. 😅
Understand =0%
Feeling =100℅
Enjoying =Infinity 🥰🥰🥰
The name of this song is "A kaval is playing" and lyrics are:
A kaval is playing, mother,
Up-down, mother, up-down, mother.
Kaval is playing, mother,
Up-down, mother, outside the village.
I'll go there, mother, to see it,
To see it, mother, to hear it.
If it is played by a fellow villager
I'll love him from dawn to noon.
If it is played by a stranger
I'll love him for my entire life.
same here lol. if bliss was a song…
@@VesitoV Now I understand even less but like it the more.
Wow. This is otherworldly.
I swear you’re on every corner of TH-cam
Oh hey haven’t seen you in a while!
@@SaxandRelax No worse than the person named "Just Some Guy Without a Mustache"
Ghost in the Shell - Making of a Cyborg maybe got inspired by this - probably because it's equally as otherworldly?
Didn't expect you to be here, thanks for being a part of the reason I realized I was trans!
This is a legacy that should never be lost. If humanity ever faces extinction this is one of the things that should be saved in the archives of our civilization.
If ethnic Bulgarians go extinct there wouldn't be such music.
This music is not exactly a legacy, but a newly composed and arranged song by Filip Kutev, one of the most productive and inspired Bulgarian musician of the 60-80 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Kutev
It is inspired by the old traditional songs, but trust me they are way more "rough" than that ...
Totally agree
djdjd dmn what does that mean
@ Not really, he is factually correct. This piece was arranged by Kutev. There is nothing to disagree about.
This is more that bulgarian folk. This is truly a "human specie hymn". I can't describe exactly what i feel when i hear these voices, but i can tell that its like hear the voice of the first humans in the world, like the introduction to our complex way that we took in what we call now history. Its like being teleported to these ancient times where towns and cities, or cars and airplanes, countries, science, economy, politics, war, armies, pollution, companies, computers, or all the things that took us away from our natural way of life didn't exist, and only existed rock tools, fire, legends and myths to explain the mysterious natural world, cave paintings and families of humans living in their own clan in a whole unexplored world. I don't know if that explains accurately what i feel but its something like that.
Your comment is amazing! Yes, this is the voice of nature. Greetings from Bulgaria :)
This is what reminds us how beautiful we all are. How powerful we really are to create more and more efficient systems that support love and compassion for one another. Protection for one another etc. ❤
I know nothing about Bulgaria, I just typed Bulgarian music out of curiosity... this sent chills down my spine! out of this planet! beautiful.
same here!
ME TOO!!!! but I was led here by Howl's Moving Castle
same thing with me bruhhh
The kaval is playing, mother,
up, down, mother, up, down, mother.
The kaval is playing mother,
up, down, mother, below the village.
I will go, mother, to see it,
to see it, mother, to hear it.
If it's a guy from our village
I'll love him from dawn till dusk,
If it's a stranger
I'll love him all my life.
@ivan nikolov never knew that it was this old.ofc it got fckd over by ottomans like so many others,but still.Its not like Romania ,who got merged 3 principality into one in the 19th century.
the sound of the universe.
This is literally true. A Bulgarian singer, Valya Balkanska, recorded a song that is traveling into outer space on the Voyager.
no. Bulgaria have this sound :)
Sue D. Whats the name oft the song
"Кавал свири" or "Kaval sviri"
Music of the Spheres
🙏🏼🌹😌😍❤️🔥🫶БУДЬТЕ БЛАГОСЛОВЕННЫ, СЧАСТЛИВЫ, ПРЕКРАСНЫЕ ЖЕНЩИНЫ БОЛГАРСКОЙ ЗЕМЛИ🫶❤️🔥🙏🏼🌹🌹✨🌞✨
I’d give them a floating ovation…just standing would be an insult. This is breathtaking. ❤
Thank you Adam Neely for giving Bulgarian folk music the attention it deserves
check out Serbian , and Macedonian music as well. In fact all balkan music is fantastic. And they are all different even when playing the same songs.
The Chad dissonance gang stepping in to listen to some Bulgarian tunes
Срби Шопи !
Језик су нам исто присвојили!
Thank you for the good words, as a Bulgarian I think , the history of Bulgaria needs to be given the attention that it deserves even more than the folklore, believe me.
@@svetlanadrezgic2672 Bulgaria has a thousand yrs of history , Serbia was constructed as a country much later, not without the help of Byzantium to serve the purpose of knife in the back of the Bulgarians , thus protecting Byzantium of one too strong Bulgaria as a neighbor. As we can see , this works well till the present day .Serbia has committed one of the biggest crimes in history and biggest genocide of the Macedonian Bulgarians for which has never apologized or admitted till present day ,neither has learned anything ,nor grown up ... As for the language, please, one would have thought that you are teachers of the so called North Macedonians 😉- only the Russians and Serbs did not understood that their language and religion are on the bases of the old Bulgarian , although as we read, already some honest Russian academic workers have admitted that 55% of the Russian language is the old Bulgarian and most of the so called ''SLavic'' countries use today (there are no Slavs, there are Bulgarians and their ancestors ).But let's listen to the music.
the harmonies are otherworldly. this music is very special.
Yes. A good and recent work by Filip Kutev based on ancient harmonies.
@@edelahaye first this was not arranged by Philip Koutev but by Petar Lyondev as written below. Koutev worked in 1950s...this was 70 years ago...definitely not recent...yes, all these composers need acknowledgement for their work..they use traditional bulgarian harmonies like seconds...but in your comment you are degrading this tradition
@@yakilad7746 Actually we don't have anything to do with tatars. Mongol-Tatars (The Golden Horde) came much later trying to conquer Europe during the Second Bulgarian "Ëmpire". There is not much left of them except some 10-20 % currently living in the so called Tatarstan (A name invented by the soviets). The Proto-bulgar tribe has much older history than tatars. Bulgaria on Danube river has slightly different history than the other parts of the tribe.
@@yakilad7746 As everybody else on this planet.
Goosebumps all over my body.
I'm an Alto and it's so hard for me to maintain a dissonant note pattern against the soprano line. This is so rich and intricate and beautiful!
It is not that hard but you have to practice. Plus we Bulgarians are used to dissonance snd uneven beats. The traditional polyphony in Bulgarian folk songs are in seconds.
@@RositsaPetrovarjp7 oh wow, can you recommend me pieces to further study?
In addition to the singing, which we all agree is out of this world, let's also appreciate the traditional garments which I think are almost equally beautiful. The patterns, the colors, the flowers/headdress, even the shoes, all very elegant and beautiful, and evocative of nature and the Sun. Bulgarian folklore is incredible and massively underappreciated, everyone needs to know about this beautiful culture! I hope these young women are touring the world.
Knowing how Bulgarian culture, sports and so on are financed, I'd say they don't tour much.
@@marinka1895 You're right, they don't look authentic. Especially the red head coverings look very cheap and basic. It's a shame, they should have used authentic garments for this incredible performance, but maybe they couldn't get or afford them. I still appreciate that they represented the spirit of Bulgarian folklore.
It doesn't look good to me at all. Comparing the heavenly singing to the garments is a crime.
Yes I have a few Bulgarian friends they are a proud, kind and tough people. The sort of friends you want!
I am from Serbia and I am glad that I could understand the words of this Bulgarian song...South Slavs have a great heritage and folk culture.
Неее. Ние не сме славяни!
@chenrik These are the lyrics:
The kaval is playing, mother,
up, down, mother, up, down, mother.
The kaval is playing mother,
up, down, mother, below the village.
I will go, mother, to see it,
to see it, mother, to hear it.
If it's a guy from our village
I'll love him from dawn till dusk,
If it's a stranger
I'll love him all my life.
Kaval is a type of musical instrument similar to flute.
@@user-uk1bi4fp4z Е как не сме? Е малко сме мешана скара, но поне езикът ни е славянски.
Šta's ti ovde razumeo bureka ti?
gore dole xd
Just saw a video with Charles Cornell talking about this. Mind blown.
1:47 that tonality and vocal control is absolutely mind blowing
1:43 that voice leading melt my brain so hard. Just perfection
yup pretty amazing. wen need more non western influences in mainstream music because of thing like this
its because you are raised listening to western music . when they hear jazz harmony it probably does the same effect on them haha so weird how we have musical pallate the same as food
I'm confused - you talk about voice leading, yet the time stamp points to a single chord. I agree that the voice leading in this song is stunning, but there's no voice leading at the time stamp you specified.
Thank you adam for bringing me to bulgarian choir music, this shit fuckin slaps
i’m not the only one let’s gooooo
B A S S
It’s nice to see that other people were interested by it
Yay Adam Neely!
Thank you adam
Thank you Bulgaria for this gift to the world
Look how beautiful they are, just look at them.
This is too amazing. The crazy difficult 5/4 rhythm. The loud, proud dissonances that resolve into haunting perfect 4ths and 5ths, the fearless voices.
Small correction, the rhythm is 9/8, otherwise completely agree they are amazing!
@@fff5081 yes true, it sounds to me like a 5\4 bar and then a 4\4 bar over and over, but 9/8 makes way more sense!
@@priocapt isn’t that mostly a question of notation?
@@mysigt_ you know, that's an interesting point. After all,
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Thats slavic soul right there, south slavic soul. All the best from west slav.
thracian soul
@@friendlyrobotasmrThracian and Macedonian means a person from the geographical region of Thrace and Macedonia. We have a Slavic culture and language. Just like Amazon, is a region, but today there are no Amazons.
I agree with you dumnylach
Няма ,западни славяни ,има Българи,Юнаци!
Oğlum Bulgarlar Türk bi dağılın ya...
I just did a little TH-cam dive into other performances of this song. These ladies should be very proud, this is outstanding. I'm now going to go so I can 'rewind' this again... Only the 7th time...
Little update 1 day later... I don't care about what the math says is possible, about 125,000 of those listens are now mine...
What are these harmonies??? UNREAL. I want to write music with these harmonies but I have no idea what notes are being sung because the harmony ALWAYS catches my attention. Art. Absolutely art.
And they are not singing on a classical western scale either, so good luck ...
Ела в България,поживей,че тази музика не се учи,така....
They sing like angels. Greetings from Romania 🇷🇴🤝🇧🇬
От Лайнария по скоро 😂😂😂
We love our Romanian neighbors. 🇧🇬 ❤🇷🇴
Originally it was Xena Warrior Princess that brought me here, but after doing more research, I am truly smitten by the beauty and conviction of Bulgarian vocals. Such a rich culture!. As a proud Nigerian, I know the value of culture and tradition and I can definitely appreciate that in Bulgarian culture....plus the women in the video are gorgeous....lol
Perfect comment brother. Salute from a Haitian-American
hello ! I'm glad we are all recognising different cultures and countries! I'm glad you have listened to us and I find it amazing how Nigerian culture has been introducing to Bulgarian :)
Beautifully spoken
Salute from a Nigerian
This was a magical performance and Bulgaria is a magical land, I recommend everyone visit, it really is the hidden gem of Europe. So much culture, history, beautiful nature, folklore, food... they have it all.
@QuantumBraced Thank you for your kind words towards my country :) Too bad not a lot of westerners share your opinion
Thank you
Got tears and trembling from how overpoweringly beautiful this is. Human genius at its height
This does not have a human origin. This is Divine.
I can't understand a single word of the lyrics, but the music, the harmonies, the runs, the trills, the incredible "sounds," all of it just sends shivers up and down, raises goosebumps, and brings a HUGE smile to my face! LOVE THIS MUSIC.
Ha, yes you could fiel it without words, isn't it.It is a joyful song for young, still unmarried girls.A girl wander which boy to choose until a bagpipe plays."Bagpipe plays"=Kaval sviri🎶
@@dalia_mar Fascinating... Crazy how music can be so culturally dependent. To my ears, very little about this sounds joyful, it sounds bittersweet, almost heartbreaking, very dramatic. There is a change around 1:28 but I'm still not sure I'd call it joyful; for the final 30 seconds my ears can't quite decide how I feel lol.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaval_Sviri
@@QuantumBraced You da MVP, captain, fly shiny and chrome
I've had this on repeat for about 30 minutes and I can't stop crying. There are no words to describe the beauty of this melody. Thank you Bulgaria. Much love
I had the same experience years ago when I heard Prituri se Planinata sung a capella by the Bulgarian Women's National Choir on the album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. I offer you a poor recording of it on youtube that was very hard (for me) to find.
th-cam.com/video/dfqxE3EgrxY/w-d-xo.html
Bruh
The odd harmonies and the flawless execution makes this song so impactful it is moving, I agree. It just hits different.
I agree, it is incredibly moving and beautiful.
th-cam.com/video/sSiX-F50Quc/w-d-xo.html Petya Paneva - "Avram Zornitsa thought", Castings in the dark, The Voice of Bulgaria 2021
Greetings from a Hungarian, Bulgarian friends! 🍻 The beauty of the culture shall and will not perish!
My friend...one day you know that bulgarian and hungarian are real brothers,it\s not joke....yeah....language is too different,but.....history and begining is same....
Angels singing in heaven, it's too beautiful to describe.
It’s so fucking hard to find this piece sung correctly with that AMAZING whiny quality and the wavy traditional riff type deal the S1 took at the end. Pure PERFECTION. Amazing, utterly amazing.
Have you noticed that whiny quality you talked about in Slavic folk music in general? The Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian Lemko etc women have this haunting, wild, high pitched whine that sounds fucking amazing. I never heard this until I went to a concert in Slovakia with many folk singers from around Europe... and I noticed that it’s inherent in many different forms of Slavic music. I wonder if there is a name for this style of singing.
It’s such a unique and beautiful way of singing 🙏🏿🥰
@@alanwomack9948 You are probably looking for "white singing" or "white voice"
@@piotrkonopka902 yes that’s what it’s called!!!! Thank you!!!
I guess you mean 1:47. That part made me feel like I was rising from my seat. Astonishing. It's a bit like a series of "turns" but rhythmically a little different to how turns feature in Western classical music
I can only imagine how tremendous this must sound hearing it performed live, sitting in the audience.
ralphyboy25 this music sounds like the First Circle movie from 1991 !!!! Thats a GREAT MOVIE !!!!
Yes! It is!
Adam Neely brought me here, thanks this hits harder than a lot of things.
This makes me so proud to be Bulgarian. But I'm Jamaican 😅
This played at my grandmother's funeral and the instant this started playing, every single person started crying
First time I heard this I cried. Simply beautiful. The melody, chords, emotion and little story… for some reason it just makes me very emotional. A beautiful piece of art.
What is the story about?
Ofcourse it will make you sad,cause all bulgarian folklore is inspired by the horrific conditions we used to live durin 500 years of turkish ottoman occupation and slavery....can you imagine what iz like for white beautiful christian girl to be kidnapped and raped from dirty ignorant and illiterate turk muslim....and what humiliation for her family,it is what made a lot of young bulgarians to go in the mountains and become haiduts(freedom fighters and protectors of christians during ottoman slavery)....also many bulgarians are focefuly made to addopt islam😪,many bulgarian children were kidnapped to become jenicaries it is called the blood tax,not to speak for the genocide we were put under......the turks used to kill with no mercy some times tens of thousand of people ......god hates them above all and they will dissappear
@@juanb890
Kaval (a flute-like instrument) is playing, mother,
up, down, mother, up, down, mother.
The kaval is playing mother,
up, down, mother, outside the village.
I will go, mother, to see it,
to see it, mother, to hear it.
If it's a lad from our village
I'll love him from dawn till dusk,
If it's a lad from the neighboring village
I'll love him all my life.
Once again I´m sad that I will never hear this for the first time.
I actually have tears in my eyes.
Try Making a cyborg from the 1995 animated movie: Ghost in the Shell. You'll find the same kind of vocal structures mixed with traditional nuptial Japanese music. It is a masterpiece that was inspired by those Bulgarian folkloric songs. Won't lie, it isn't necessarily easy to approche but you already like this so...
@@shorgothThanks a lot 🙏🏼
I somehow always tear up too hearing those harmonies. It sounds so HUGE.
I have tears streaming down my face
Omg this sounds like the music of earth,the first sound,the song of life and dead the first culture now forgotten.This sound like a music of gods
-what kind of music do u like?
-It's complicated
You could answer with one word - acapella.
Simple indeed.
Traditional Bulgarian music...you may also folk...
Trad Folk
its really not that complicated tho
I'm a puddle of tears every single time I hear this. I had to come back now that I heard it in the new documentary "Trees And Other Entanglements." Of course, I'm in tears all over again.
Makes me cry like a baby.
1:45 Holy crap, those overtones are insane!
At the risk of sounding melodramatic, there's something profoundly and disturbingly moving about this harmony. It's as if I've died, and I'm being greeted by valkyries to the warrior's afterlife. I'm shaking.
And the song is just about the yearning for love to come from a nearby village. Basically the unpredictability of life. Says a lot about the song how those feelings are presented through the music.
I feel you man! Listening to this does something to me. I cant explain it
That's what it's supposed to be. Bulgarian folk music originates in invocations and chants for shooing the bad spirits away and for calling forth the dead of for invoking dead loved ones.
It was fitting music to include on the Xena: Warrior Princess soundtrack!
This is solely how I got into Bulgarian music (and I'm from Australia). It's truly something special.
It’s a very very ancient way of singing, and was used for ritualistic purposes during spiritual events back when things were still pagan. Something very similar is the Kulning way of singing in Scandinavia, which is now a folk motif but was originally a way to “open the doors” to the spirit realm. So that might be the reason this kind of singing (it’s called Bilyi Holos or White Voice btw) gives you those kind of feelings. It’s speaking to something deeper within you.
The harmonies are absolute PERFECTION!
It's almost unreal!
No wonder Thomas Bergerson loves to put Bulgarian Choirs in his music, this is some divine otherworldly stuff
He steals them* without a permission
greeting from Romania , brothers and sisters
AM FROM ETHIOPIA AND I DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND A SINGLE WORD BUT IT TOOK MY SOUL
this is what you hear on entering heaven. been listening for hours
Angels sing angelic songs with their angelic voices. I admire the Bulgarian people and culture. My greetings from Toronto, Canada to all Bulgarians.
Gracias misho por enseñarnos esta canción. Increíble
jajja
Sabia que no tenia que ser el único.
solo puse cantos bulgaros xd
How is this just eleven voices? It sounds like a million.
They aren't perfectly harmonized with each other, so you can actually hear the separate voices rather than one unified choir, as is usually the case
Представи си 100 000българска армия и нейното.....Урааааа!
I didn't understand a single word of this and I'm crying. Wow.
No words to describe this.
Everyone coming in because of Adam Neely, you're my new friends. What video shall we all go to next? Let's make a playlist.
I would suggest "Pousta mladost mamo" (Damn youth mother).
Similar vibes from Greece, a neighbouring country th-cam.com/video/dm1MWr0ZNdI/w-d-xo.html
@@fteogr bro that video was amazing
Here's a song that combined heavy rock with folk music from Northern Greece and similar vocals th-cam.com/video/QFRCKVyjHv4/w-d-xo.html
Corsican polyphony!!!!
Can you imagine hearing this ring out over fields and reverberate off the side of mountains as you carry your basket or drive your cattle or bathe your child or kneel to pray. Otherworldly
Prekrasne naše bugarske slavenske djevojke, a muzika isto tako, puni moje srce ponosom što sam slaven i što imamo takvu zajedničku tradiciju, i kod nas se pjeva isti melos. Pozdrav iz Hrvatske, slava Slavenima!
This is not Slavic. Stop trying to identify with Bulgarian culture.
@@user-uk1bi4fp4z Have you checked other slavic songs? There is clear similarity. You are just being rude here for no reason whatsoever.
@@user-uk1bi4fp4zNe ovo je srpski 😅
@@vuk982 haha it cant be gypsy language of Servia, because Servian don't have articles 😄
@@user-uk1bi4fp4z Please stop spreading these fringe theories that we are not Slavs, you're embarrassing us. Genetically we are only about 50-60% Slavic, but culturally and linguistically we are a Slavic country 100% and part of the Slavic world. Достатъчно слушам македонска пропаганда че сме татари, нямам нужда да чувам и от българи подобни глупости.
this really instills something in me..
This music makes me proud to be Bulgarian! - but I'm German
Dann kennst du den song bestimmt auch woanders her
@@german1825 Was meinst du?
@@Bluegamerful kollegah hat den song mal gesampelt
@@german1825 ahh shit jetzt dämmert‘s. welcher song war das nochmal?
@@Bluegamerful königsaura
This has got to be one of the most perfect songs ever performed
Bulgarian Folklore music is the best in the world !
There isn’t a single person who don’t got the goosebumps when listening !
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I love this song!!! Heard first time on Xena Warrior Princess and think is the most beautiful song i ve heard...and in so many versions😲😲😲😲
I can’t believe how humanity’s last breath sampled this into the Thallest song of all existence ! Black hole energy 🕳️
Sang this in undergrad actually, and safe to say we could not touch this power. That top voice at 1:46 that flickers out of the blend on “kaval” with that trill/yodel effect… it is so beyond perfectly executed. It’s like, this wild primal joy overtook her. Which makes sense, this is a very joyful song when you translate the lyrics. Good lord this is spectacular.
How did you guys go about learning this song? I do play cello but I've never been part of a choir like this before and I find it fascinating. Do you all read sheet music for the individual vocal parts and learn songs that way? If so, do you ever use some sort of reference like a piano to help you be able to hear and learn your part better? Or do you somehow listen to your isolated parts sang by someone else and memorize them that way, bringing it to the full group later? I'm honestly just really curious how a song like this is learned. The complex harmonies must make it that much more difficult to learn and pull off as a group, so what exactly is the process of learning this song for an ensemble?
"wild, primal joy overtook her". that was so well put, your words brought me to tears
@@STSGuitar16 great questions! I previously played violin before I sang full time so string player solidarity ✊
Basically, yes to any question you asked! All are ways you can tackle a song this complex. We had a choir member who had done it before OUR group did it, she helped teach it, and we also essentially broke the score down into little chunks and since we had heard the recording too that helped. A lot of it is being smart with reading music and watching your conductor carefully.
But, you can’t get people to SOUND this way if they don’t. As in this would be considered a “belting” vocal style. I was studying it in my musical theatre track, many of my choir mates were classical ONLY which… is a style that doesn’t sound great on “Kaval Sviri” 😅 😂
Hope that helps! 😊
@@graceh.2193 thanks for answering! That’s pretty cool. Seems like a much more relaxed way to learn music versus just having the sheet music and learning it in your own. I may be wrong in saying this, but it sounds like it’s just a “whatever you need to do to learn your part, do it” lol. Did y’all have any people with perfect pitch who could just sight-read the sheet music for something like this? Sight-reading sheet music for an instrument is much easier considering you know where every note is along the neck and have reference notes all around you. Basically, you see a G in whatever octave and you know exactly where to go on the instrument to play it without having to search for it or anything. On a string instrument, a G is a G. When singing, that same G isn’t immediately obvious as to how it is supposed to sound unless you have perfect pitch and can read vocal music. Idk, I’m kinda rambling here lol but I just find the idea of seeing notes on a page and knowing exactly how to sing it with no outside reference (like a piano where you could play your part and learn it that way) to be fascinating. I’m just used to the instructions being clearly written in front of you and all you have to do is follow those instructions. With singing in a choir, those instructions are way less clear as to how they’re supposed to sound (if you don’t have perfect pitch), so to me it seems like a miracle that a choir could learn a song like this. What was your preferred way to learn it? Do you often read music, and if so are you actually paying attention to the notes on the page or more so the lyrics?
@@STSGuitar16 yeah totally get what you’re saying! we didn’t have anyone with perfect pitch- so that’s where listening to recordings often comes in SO clutch hahaha 😂😂
I will say a lot of singers can teach themselves RELATIVE pitch which I rely on quite a bit as an ex-Suzuki violinist myself. I think part of the challenge is, you never have to tune a human voice, so you’re never constantly listening to something like open A all the time to get into tune. You just go for it and follow your conductor. It’s so cool!
This is beautiful. Listen to all that harmony. The dissonant harmony , my God in Heaven thank you for giving us music. And by "us" I mean the entire human race.
no god wrote or performed this composition, only humankind
In all my decades of being a musician and starting out in choirs.... This blew my mind. Their voices are tuned like the finest hand-crafted instruments. Their immediate volume control in unison, timing and diaphragm control for belting is unbelievable.
Gracias Misho, con este descubrimiento ya puedo enfrentarme a ejércitos yo solito❤
Holy cRAP the chills I’m getting… like actually hearing the voices of angels.
The volume theyre able to get without sounding strained or changing anything but dynamics is INSANE
I want to take a moment and thabks TH-cam's algorithm for bringing this into my feed.
When you entire body becomes warm tingly just from hearing people sing, you know there is good in the world
That just sent me to another dimension
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Directly given by the gods. Amazing.
Wow!! I didn't understand one word. But their singing was amazing.
No exaggeration, I've listened to this 5 times a day for the past 2 months, it's just incredible. I'd never heard anything like it.
Precisely. This is so incredible. I’m obsessed. I only get full body chills once every couple years from new music I discover, this is one of them.
Sounds similar to Karl Jenkins music. This performance is outstanding!!!
@@paulmarch540 which specific songs by Karl Jenkins sound like this? Would love to know.
@@Robisquick check out his requiem of "nonsense syllables." - Adiemus, Songs of Sanctuary. Just the general feel of this piece, the tension and release make me think of Adiemus.
@@Robisquick I'm not sure my response posted. Check out the requiem-like, nonsense syllable work called "Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary." The overall mood and tensions / releases of Kaval sviri just kind of remind me of Adiemus... 🙂
Transcendent. Nothing less. Deserves billions of views.
Love from india
I keep coming back to be amazed all over again. What an incredible piece of music and such strong talent by these women. It's takes me away.
Oscar winner musician AR Rahman sir just said about bulgarian chant. So i came here and just shedding tears 😭 whil listening wowwwww
We sang this in choir my senior year and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since
Utter perfection
Love Bulgaria from Sri Lanka ❤️
This precious dissonance and insane harmony driving me crazy, so now I have tears in my eyes!
It felt nostalgic hearing it the first time!
This felt real beyond other mundane music of our era.
Incredible 👏
i can’t stop thinking about this
Bulgarian choirs are the best in the world. Long may they continue.