Music from the Hills (Music)
With John Uhlemann
Sun Oct 9th 2011 4.00pm–6.00pm
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
4:01pm | Duo Stoyanova “Krivo Sadovsko Horo” from Bulgarische Volkstänze Für 2 Gitarren (ears love music 2010) —this rhythm (freely interpreted here) is 13/8 = 2+2+2+3+2+2Buy it! |
4:06pm | Kolev Family “Dos Dos” from Balkan Voices (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com 2001) —this family group, plus the great Bulgarian Accordion player Ivan Milev, will be in St. Louis October 1 &2. Go to www.kdhx.org/musicfromthehills for detailsBuy it! |
4:09pm | Kolev Family “Nad Neda hvarkat dva galaba” from Balkan Voices (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com 2001) —in slow (Thracian) Rûchenitsa meter. There bagpipe imitation section towards the end is unusual for a gadulka player, but Nikolai is REALLY good.Buy it! |
4:12pm | Kolev,Nicholai “Sick Lay Nedelia” from Gadulka Melodies (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com 2000)Buy it! |
4:20pm | Kolev,Nicholai “Graovsko Horo” from Gadulka Melodies (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com 2000)Buy it! |
4:24pm | Maria Koleva “Da Sa Mi Jivi I Zdravi” from Ot Izvora - Bulgarian Traditional Singing From Thrace (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com) —a too short song in Païdushko rhythmBuy it! |
4:06pm | Maria Koleva “Kalino Diulber Malino” from Ot Izvora - Bulgarian Traditional Singing From Thrace (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com)Buy it! |
4:33pm | Kalinka Zgurova “Boyu Le, Pravna Pravnino” from StranDJa Folk Songs (Gega 2008) —The singer is from Strandzha, the southeast of Bulgaria. The song is in Rûchentisa rhythmBuy it! |
4:36pm | Kalinka Zgurova “Zapravi Georgi Kaldaram” from StranDJa Folk Songs (Gega 2008) —a very danceable Pravo, as well as a nice old-fashioned song. This is a re-issue of a recording of about 30 years ago.Buy it! |
4:39pm | Ivan Dyakov “V Gradinata moma sedeshe” from Zlatni Makedonski Hitove - 1 Chast (Payner www.payner.bg 2009) —a Pirin (south-west Bulgaria) singer, the the favored 9/8 of the region - recent recordingBuy it! |
4:46pm | Tatiana Sârbinska “Mari Dimano (Dimana!)” from Katerino Mome (MK Balkanton) —in slow 7/8 with much rubatoBuy it! |
4:49pm | Tatiana Sârbinska “Gala tsapi borinata” from Katerino Mome (MK Balkanton) —in rûchenitsa rhythmBuy it! |
4:51pm | Tatiana Sârbinska “Mori Ezh se zheni” from Katerino Mome (MK Balkanton) —this songis a Païdushko punctuated by free-rhythm sectionsBuy it! |
4:53pm | Slavka Kalcheva “Kitka #4(Slaveno Mome/Zvezda or Nebe Padnala/Zlayubila Byala Kalina)” from Byala Roza i Oshte Neshto (Payner www.payner.bg 2009) —"Kitka" means a bouquet or bunch. It is the style of many new recordings of Bulgarian "wedding" music to record songs in like rhythm in groups of from 7-25 min in length - useful for playing in bars so people can dance.Buy it! |
5:05pm | Maria Koleva “Visoko Stoish Zvezdo Lio” from Ot Izvora - Bulgarian Traditional Singing From Thrace (Kolev Era Folk www.koleverafolk.com) —here with Ivan Milev, in "wedding style"Buy it! |
5:09pm | Dafo Trendafilov “Master's Ruchenitsa (Чорбаджийцка Ръченица)” from Weep, My Bagpipe, Weep (MK) —re-mastered from old Balkanton recordings. This kaba gaïda player comes from the Rodope mountains in the south of BulgariaBuy it! |
5:11pm | Светльо Жилев “Момне, ле, мари хубаво” from Трите гайди —again, played on the deep-droned kaba gaïda, which has a large enough bag that the bagpipe-player, as here, can sing while he plays. I met this musician in Bulgaria where he was playing at the entrance to the Yagodina cave!Buy it! |
5:17pm | Kostadin Atanasov “Gaydine sviryat-horo se vie” from Sharena Gaïda (VD www.vvd-r.com 2008) —This wonderful CD features bagpipe playing from all over Bulgaria by this versatile musician, accompnied by good traditional singers. This is is from Rodope; the next track is from much farther north and west.Buy it! |
5:20pm | Kostadin Atanasov “Graovska & Sitno Shopsko” from Sharena Gaïda (VD www.vvd-r.com 2008) —from the Shop district of Western BulgariaBuy it! |
5:27pm | Pendari Folk Band “Mari babo gurbava” from Nazdrave (Sunrise Marinov www.sunrisebg.com 2003) —a RûchenitsaBuy it! |
5:29pm | Pendari Folk Band “Trugnala e Ruma moma” from Nazdrave (Sunrise Marinov www.sunrisebg.com 2003) —a Daïchovo (9/8 divided 2+2+2+3Buy it! |
5:34pm | Stefan Georgiev (accordion) “Plevenska kopanica” from Bulgarian Folk Songs And Dances- A Folklore Stroll Around Bulgaria (Sunrise Marinov www.sunrisebg.com 2007) —kopanitsa = 2+2+3+2+2 = 11/8 - player REALLY fast hereBuy it! |
5:37pm | Kalina i Georgi Germanovi “Zalubi Kolio dve momi” from Bulgarian Folk Songs And Dances- A Folklore Stroll Around Bulgaria (Sunrise Marinov www.sunrisebg.com 2007) —song in Païdushko rhythm = 5/8 = 2+3Buy it! |
5:46pm | Ivan Milev Band “Rachenica” from The Flight Of Krali Marco (self-released 2006) —The accordion player will be here Oct. 1-2. The saturday night concert is at University United Methodist Church, just south of the Lion Gates in University City - 7:30pm. There will be a house concert on Sunday night, Oct. 2, at 6946 Cornell in U. City.Buy it! |
5:53pm | Ivan Milev Band with Maria Kolev “You And Me, Here And There” from The Flight Of Krali Marco (self-released 2006) —and this is the singer with the band coming October 1 & 2. The CD can be purchased from CDbaby.com and aroundBuy it! |
12:00am | Иван Милев с оркесър "Младост" “Чирпанлийско Хоро” from Иван Милев с оркесър "Младост" (Payner www.payner.bg 1994) —this is taken from an "out of print" cassette that really needs to be re-issued; it is some of the best music of the genre. The accordion player, Ivan Milev, will be in St. Louis Oct. 1&2. See above for details.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.