MUSIC COLUMN

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Sonic Icons & The Key to the Mystery

 A MYSTERY?... IS THE BULGARIAN FOLKLORE INDEED A MYSTERY? THE EFFECT OF THE GOLDEN VOICES OF THE BULGARIAN POLYPHONY IS INCREDIBLE. THE MUSIC SOUNDS HERE AND NOW, BUT SEEMS TO BE COMINIG FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE HEART AND TO HAVE BRIDGED OVER THE ABYSM OF TIME... AT THE CLOSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE WORLD HAS TURNED BACK TO ITS ROOTS IN ORDER TO LOOK FOR THE KEY TO THAT BULGARIAN TREASURE, TO ERASE THE PATINA FROM IT, TO FIND THE CLUE TO IT AND TO INCORPORATE IT WITH THE INTRANSIENT WONDERS OF THE THOUSAND-YEARS-OLD HUMAN CIVILIZATION.

-Stefan Dragostinov