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We’ll be playing Thursday November 10th at Casa V58 in Aarhus.

The Music

In which musical genre can one place the music from the Balkan-area? Is it to be defined as folk music, as it is classified in libraries, or as what many journalists have termed world music? In the sense that it is not a product of some corporate office in the West, it is, of course, folk music. Moreover, it is living folk music, and as such it is an expression of everyday life inseparable from the experience of average Bulgarians. Yet it is also world music in the sense that it doesn’t have it’s roots in the small part of the world where we live. It is structured differently, uses different instruments, different sounds, and different bar-times.

But when all is said and done it’s just music. As such it transcends all labels, as all good music does. And it’s influence upon us is something we can’t describe, but only experience.

This engagement with, and experience of, the music is what Balkan Transit wishes to convey to our listeners. We have fallen in love with the uniquely Bulgarian way of playing music, with the odd rhythms, the different harmonies, and the wide variety of songs expressed in beautiful lyric poetry, which contain a thousand years of Bulgarian history and the often harsh stories of individual lives, which the history encompasses.

The withdrawn and melancholy sensibility of the music contains sweeping rhythms, which can be both grave or festive and inspire dancing, singing, and fellowship – far above the banal, it is music on the highest level.

Spellbinding chaindance music with foothold in modern Bulgarien folk tradition.

info@balkantransit.dk

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