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Roza Bancseva and Orkestar Slavia

'Jana-Janica'

Musicians:
Roza Bancseva - voice
Valeria Bancseva - voice

Orkestar Slavia:
Rumen Sirakov - tambura
Rosen Genkov - tupan, tarambouka
Ivan Varimezov - bagpipe
Nikolaj Petrov - gadulka
Cvetan Nikolov - kaval

Guests:
Gergely Agócs - voice
Péter Árendás - 3 stringed viola
András Lelkes - double bass
Kálmán Balogh - cimbalom
István Gázsa Papp - violin
László Garamvölgyi - tambura
Szlobodán Wertetics - accordion
Sándor Bertalan - clarinet
Pál Kaibinger - bass
Miklós Paizs - Slovakian flute, khöömei
Emil Biljarszki - keyboards

'They say that no one is a prophet in his own country, nor do thieves steal in their own cities. The beautiful voice of the famous Bulgarian singer, Roza Bancseva, has now been recorded in Hungary, and this is no coincidence. This recording has given Roza - a traditional singer born in a small Bulgarian village, but now living outside of Bulgaria - the rare opportunity to do more than be a representative for the music of one specific region; instead she relives and places before us, 1300 years of national music. This recording is a bouquet of beautiful Bulgarian melodies, a gift to the world from this singer upon her 50th birthday, crowning her long singing career. From playful dance rhythms to slow sad songs, everything treasured in Bulgarian folk music can be found on this record.

Slavia Orkestar was founded by Bulgaria’s most professional and most popular folk musicians. Each of these five musicians is a master of his instrument (gadulka, tambura, tupan, bagpipe, and kaval) who has performed on several hundred recordings and has taken the amazing sound of Bulgarian folk music to many continents on concert tours. Roza chose them to be her accompanying band.Some well known Hungarian musicians also play on the 16-th and the 17-th cuts of this record. These tunes are the result of a cultural experiment. We brought together Bulgarian and Hungarian folk musicians to play the kind of music that once formed the basis of folk music but has since been lost - improvisation. The goal of our experiment was not to explore common roots in a hazy past, rather to look for a common language in the present. It worked. When one ’side’ started into a melody, the other immediately recognised one of its own melodies and went over into that.'
Extract from sleeve notes.

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Roza Bancseva
and
Orkestar Slavia

'Jana-Janica'