Indie Video - Desi Dobreva

This Bulgarian musician beautifully combines traditional Bulgarian music with haunting and subtle technical intrusions and then thunderous electric guitars, and interesting instrumentation throughout. It’s been a struggle for her to release her latest record, and the hoops she had to jump through are different in some ways to what a North American musician might experience, but hoops nonetheless. Anyway, the record exists now, it’s a real world thing and that’s always something to be celebrated:

‘I’m really glad, this was my dream since I was 15 and I finally fulfilled it. There were many problems. I had to come back from the US because the Ministry of Culture were making trouble. There had been something in the contract that needed to be fixed. At the end they apologized for the misunderstanding. Than the factory in the Netherlands that had to create the cover went in summer vacation. However, the songs are great. The sponsors decided that the album would be free on their credit card. This way is better because otherwise it would’ve become too expensive and people wouldn’t have been able to buy it.

Read More in the Bulgaria Gazette.

This video is not technically fancy, it features straight transistions between still paintings, but the paintings are lovely, they become a quiet background to the heart rendering Euro-angst and for me, this morning, this all is quite satifying.

The song is by Desi Dobreva and it’s called Katerino Mome, a traditional folk song. The paintings are by Vladimir Dimitrov.

Check out other songs and make friends via Desi Dobreva’s myspace.