Kuker Music - Bulgaria / cdRoots

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Kuker Music

Here's what the label has to say about themselves:

Kuker Music is a Bulgarian label whose main goal is to produce and distribute music projects from Eastern Europe. We work with artists who make music in the field of jazz, folklore and New Music. Our activity is divided in 3 parts: Koreni, Creative and Across.

KORENI (roots) - a part of Kuker Music's activity, connected with the roots of the folklore and traditional music.

CREATIVE - a part of Kuker Music's activity, connected with the creative approach to music.

ACROSS - a part of Kuker Music's activity, connected with New Music and experimental projects.

Click on the titles below to learn more about the artists, and to hear some more audio samples.

Bear's Wedding - Bulgara
$16.99
(cdRoots# km-bulgara)
A raw mix of Bulgarian 'wedding music,' jazz, rock and folk music performed with hyper-energy by seven great musicians on kaval, gayda (bagpipe), gadulka, tambourine, electric bass, drums and percussion.

Dom. No. 13 - Antoni Donchev
$17.99
(cdRoots# km-donchev)
Composer-pianist Antoni Donchev has received many Bulgarian jazz awards over the last fifteen years and been featured at number of major jazz festivals. In addition to his work with his Acoustic Version, Donchev works in a number of other projects with musicians from all over Europe. Donchev is a model contemporary musician, easily and skilfully handling the broad variety of forms in performing and composing at the turn of the century. He has no difficulty whatever combining the versatility of jazz with folklore and classical music.

Donchev is working with the music space. His compositions are like imaginary landscapes - chamber music atmospheres. He is looking for the space between the spaces - the microcosmos of sounds.

The works heard here are from film and theater works he has composed, performed by a chamber orchestra, with poetry by Edvin Sugarev.

Fairground - Ivo Papasov
$16.99
(cdRoots# km-fairground)
The 2003 model by the Bulgarian wedding music king of clarinet is all one would expect after ten years of music making. Deep roots, edgy jazz, warp speed virtuosity all come together in a mature, briliant vision of what contemporary Bulgarian roots should be. Bulgaria only release!

Ultramarine - Fairy Tale Trio
$16.99
(cdRoots# km-fairy-ultra)
Unique folk insprired jazz from Bulgaria by a trio of Theodosii Spassov (kaval), Antoly Vapirov (sax) and Styoan Yankoulov (percussion, tupan) with Enver Izmailov on guitars on a few tracks

A Distant Echo - Korova
$16.99
(cdRoots# km-korova)
This vocal-tamboura quartet from Bulgaria play authentic folk music from the Rhodope mountains in Bulgaria, with energy and directness. Their performance is captured in their home town setting, without a fancy studio sound or production... you'll hear the listeners join in, you'll hear the trucks drive by.

When the bees are gathering honey - Zig Zag Trio
$16.99
(cdRoots# km-zigzag)
The Gypsy wedding music of Bulgaria has been made famous by the likes of Yunakov and Papasov, but this ensemble is every bit their equal as they thunder through Gypsy music, crazy jazz and wild improvisations on accordion, tupan, percussion and guitar. Highly Recommended!

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