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Balkan/Eastern European Folk CDs


Eastern European folk music has experienced something of a resurgence in vocal community in recent years, with groups like California's Kitka, Vermont's Northern Harmony, and Bulgaria's Women's Choir becoming more popular and prominent in the vocal music scene. The strident but beautiful, strong sounds of Balkan women's music cannot be ignored - and indeed shouldn't be. Take a listen to some of the sound files, and be transported to a small Georgian village at dusk, on your way back from the well with your water for the night...

Banana Boat: A morze tak, a moze nie...
Price: $15.97
Our first CD from Poland! This male quintet performs songs of the sea, mostly in their native tongue. Extremely well sung! Song List: Uspokojeni (Intro) Panta Rhei Do Calais Slodka mala... more
   


Brass, Mary Cay: Balkan Bridges (CD)
Price: $14.97
This collection of 19 Balkan songs has a diverse range of voicings of these hard-to-find songs from Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, plus a helpful pronunciation guide plus translations and... more
   


Bulgarian Women's Choir Live Tour '93
Price: $15.97
The tradition of Bulgarian women's choruses is a long and proud one, and the marvelous, powerful performances on this CD do it justice. The venue is resonant, allowing the bright and dissonant... more
   


Bulgarian Women's Choir Voices of Life
Price: $17.97
This phenomenal compilation combines traditional pieces"Todara's Dream" with works by modern composers in traditional Bulgarian style. "A Little Bird Is Singing" builds walls of ascending... more
   


Ensemble Zedashe Raising of Lazare (Book/CD)
Price: $20.00
For anyone looking for a taste of music indigenous to this region of the world, this is a great resource. Published by Northern Harmony Publishing, which has a long-standing history of celebrating... more
   


Kitka: Nectar (1999)
Price: $14.97
What an incredible sound! This amazing women's group from Oakland has the ability to take us to another place, more exotic than our own. One can practically see the ancient Turkish cities at... more
   


Kitka: The Vine (CD)
Price: $15.97
"The Vine" features nineteen Balkan and Slavic folksongs sung with soulful abandon. Co-produced by Kit Higginson with Grammy-nominee Linda Tillery, "The Vine" was recorded with... more
   


Kitka: Voices on the Eastern Wind (1992)
Price: $14.97
"Their power and energy is exotic and exhilarating!" One cannot better describe the sound produced by Kitka, a truly international group of women singing out of Oakland, California. This is a... more
   


Kitka: Wintersongs (2004 CD)
Price: $15.97
"Wintersongs showcases material ranging from rousing Slavic folk carols and lush, meditative Eastern Orthodox sacred choral works, to pre-Christian incantations for the longest nights of the... more
   


Mediterranean Sounds: Croatia's Mystic Voices: Klapa Fa Lindo (2005 CD)
Price: $14.97
"The joyful voices of the women who make up Klapa FA Lindo truly embrace a large swath of the Medterranean: their harmony unites the heights of the skies with the blue depths of the sea. As their... more
   


Mediterranean Sounds: Croatia's Mystic Voices: Klapa Luka (2007 CD)
Price: $14.97
Klapa Luka, the a cappella women's vocal group from Rijeka, weaves into its songs the echoes of fates from all ages, like a magical mirror. The choral lines, molten with the changes of space and... more
   


Mediterranean Sounds: Croatia's Mystic Voices: Klapa Navalia (2007 CD)
Price: $14.97
"Klapa Navalia" represents the rich tradition of Easter singing in Novalja on the island of Pag, the fifth largest island in the Adriatic Sea. Although the majority of the songs are rendered in the... more
   


Mediterranean Sounds: Croatia's Mystic Voices: Klapa Sinj: Lipo Ime (2005 CD)
Price: $14.97
"It is as if this sound emerged from the very bowels of the Earth, only to rise up and reveal the heavens. This sound sings of a timeless age when the beauty of the landscape and the trials of... more
   


Moira Smiley & VOCO: Blink (2006 CD)
Price: $14.97
Moira Smiley & VOCO is a fiery roots vocal band making new song as it pulls on roots of Eastern European and Appalachian harmony and rhythm. "Exquisite vocals - the energy of street singing and the... more
   


Rustavi Choir, The: Georgian Voices
Price: $15.97
Newly independent state Georgia, like Bulgaria, has been a crossroads between Asia and Europe for centuries. Its polyphonic musical tradition stands apart from its (largely monophonic) neighbors.... more
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Village Harmony: Trad. Songs of Balkans Bk/CD
Price: $19.97
*Previously available separately, this package includes both the songbook and a CD.
This Vermont-based ensemble performs Balkan works available in sheet music! (SATB) Song... more
   


Za Krizem: Following the Cross: Lenten Chants from the Island of Hvar
Price: $14.97
Lenten Folk Singing From the Hvar Island "In its rich and diverse cultural history, the Hvar Island, just off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, carries the best of what is an integral... more
   


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