Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares – review

Barbican, LondonThis is how world music started. Twenty-five years ago, the independent record company 4AD released an album of startling, eerie songs by a little-known unaccompanied Bulgarian female folk ensemble that had been recorded more than a decade earlier. It didn't fit easily into any category, so the label joined forces with other indies specialising in African music, and marketed it as a new musical style. "World music" became a successful brand, and the Voix Bulgares became a worldw...

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