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“Dryanovki murafetliyki” (2024): nine Dryanovo songs, recorded twenty-four years after the notebook came into her hands.
Dryanovki murafetliyki
The story of one music notebook
The story of this album begins in 2000, when a music notebook was handed on, a notebook that was to build a bridge between several generations.
- The songs
- Eight authentic Dryanovo songs from a notebook written in 1978, and one of her own, “Bozhur Yana”.
- Arrangements
- Gancho Gavazov; “Rado, mari” by Lachezar Yordanov.
- Recorded
- Together with the National School of Folk Arts in Shiroka Laka, sound engineering by Stoyan Peykov.
- Guest
- Bozhidar Danev on “Dryanovki murafetliyki”.
- Honour
- Nominated album of 2024 by Bulgarian National Radio.
Listen
The two songs from the album that have a video. The video is only loaded from YouTube once you click.
“Dryanovki murafetliyki” with Bozhidar Danev
“Bozhur Yana”
Dryanovki murafetliyki
Eight authentic Dryanovo songs from a music notebook written in 1978, and one of her own.
“I am certain the songs are in safe hands and that one day they will be sung!”
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1 Imala baba edno momiche
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2 Dryanovki murafetliyki
Guest singer: Bozhidar Danev.
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3 Yanko si cheshma pokriva
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4 Otdolu idat kazhi-rechi ergeni
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5 Bozhur Yana
Words and music: Ana Borisova.
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6 Edna moma belenka
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7 Rado, mari
Arrangement: Lachezar Yordanov.
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8 Nasho Mariyche, komshiyche
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9 Glupava moma
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1875
Gana Tananova is born in Dryanovo
She hears the songs from her parents, Todora and Peyu Penevi. “Grandmother weaves and sings, and grandfather sews in the shop and sings,” their grandchildren remember. The songs pass down through her daughter Penka and her granddaughter Denka.
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1978
Ventseslava Todorova writes them down
A pianist at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School, she sits down and writes the songs of her aunt Denka into a music notebook. It is the first time these melodies are put on paper.
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2000
The notebook changes hands
Svetla Todorova, a piano teacher at the Razvitie 1869 community centre in Dryanovo, gives it to a young singer from the town.
“I am certain the songs are in safe hands and that one day they will be sung!”
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24
years the notebook waited
Music school, university, choir, a doctorate, children. The notebook stays put away and is never opened for a recording.
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2024
The songs come out on an album
Nine songs, recorded together with the National School of Folk Arts in Shiroka Laka, arranged by Gancho Gavazov. “Dryanovki murafetliyki” was nominated album of the year by Bulgarian National Radio.