(Ethnic Jazz / World Music ) Ivo Papasov - Dance of the Falcon - 2008, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Legendary virtuoso clarinetist!
As a creator of contemporary Balkan music, he long ago became part of global culture.
Thirty years ago, in 1974, long before Balkan music was discovered on the major music scene, Papazov started his revolution with his Trakija Band. At the time he could hardly have known that he was creating a new movement, later known as wedding band music, a mix of Bulgarian and Balkan folk with contemporary elements. His work changed the face of Bulgarian and world music and developed it in new directions.
No wonder his fans around the world call him the King of Wedding Band Music. In deference to his amazing talent, Bulgarians call him the Aga (the Master). And Papazov really is part of the best moments of their lives. His music resounds not only at major concert venues, but also at the important days of their lives, their weddings and family celebrations.
Ivo Papazov is now 52 with a brilliant musical career behind his back. He appears on innumerable productions and albums. Two of his albums were produced by Joe Boyd (who produced Pink Floyd, REM and others). Global media of the calibre of The Guardian, The Washington Post and The New York Times write about him in superlative terms. Flattery for Ivo Papazov has come from world-famous musicians like David Sanborn and Frank Zappa and famous and respected experts and connoisseurs like Simon Broughton and Timothy Rice.
Ivo Papazov works with world-renowned musicians like Milcho Leviev, Peter Ralchev, Teodosii Spasov, Antoni Donchev, Johnny Griffin, Hector Zazou, Okay Temiz, Glen Velez, Kepa Junkera, Arild Andersen, Kalman Balogh, Iva Bitova, Sergei Starostin, etc.
He plays at festivals in Paris, Gypsy Festival Tilburg, Dunya Rotterdam, Eropalia, Krakow, Budapest World Music Festival, Moers Festival, TFF Rudolstadt, Schloss Elmau, Horizonte Koblenz, Facherwelt Karlsruhe, Salzburg, Balkanfever Vienna, Waidhofen Thaya, Huesca Festival, Cormons Jazz & Wine, Jazz Progetto Cremona, Time in Jazz Sardinia, Umea Folk Festival, Moskow Etna etc.
Clubs and Halls like Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Soedra Teatern in Stockholm, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Ronnie Scott’s in London, Szene Vienna, Treibhaus Innsbruck, Moods Zurich, Bimhuis Amsterdam, etc.
His new album Fairground is a source of what we all love so much: a tender, lyrical and crazily exuberant mix of bright sounds, beautiful melodies improvisations in half-tones and rhythms, so lovingly created that it draws from our hearts what we cherish most.
Here Ivo plays with his wife - the singer Maria Karafizieva - and his old friends from the Trakija Band: Nesho Neshev on accordion, Vasil Denev on keyboards and Salif Ali on drums. But shades of modern Bulgarian music also appear in the form of master musicians like Stoyan Yankulov on tupan drum and percussion, Ateshhan Husseinov on guitar, Vasil Parmakov on piano, Ivo Zvezdomirov and Stefan Marinov on bass.
The album layout is in style with Ibryama’s music. Along with the disc itself, wonderfully and poetically annotated by musicologist Gencho Gaytandzhiev, the special box contains special gifts for friends of Ivo Papazov’s music, like a big poster of the Aga himself and his musicians. Everything apart from the disc is refreshingly devoid of plastic. There can hardly be such a stylishly presented product on the Bulgarian music market.
The beauty of his melodies gives him the force to change us.
Enjoy it!
REVIEWS
"Ivo's wedding music, played first thing in the morning, provides thorough and long-lasting attitude adjustment for the busy executive."
FRANK ZAPPA
"Once again, Papasov has his band as well as the listener holding onto the tail of a tiger in this incendiary romp through traditional dance styles given a contemporary facelift."
DOWNBEAT
"It was some of the most wonderful stuff I'd ever heard, and it opened up a whole world for me. I didn't care whether it sold or not. I was so overwhelmed by the music I had to record it."
JOE BOYD / produced PINK FLOYD, REM, TAJ MAHAL etc.
"With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuosic music you’ll be left in little doubt that he’s one of most interesting clarinettists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, grafting on jazzy improvisations."
SIMON BRAUGHTON, editor of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC
"An amazing musician - I still remember the stunned looks on the faces of Dave Sanborn and his bandmaters during Ivo's appearance on 'Night Music' "
TON MAAS
"I have a record I've called "Illusion". And there is a track which is called ‘Freak Show Excess’. And I’m going to tell a little bit about "Freak Show Excess". It's kind of over the top. This song basically is a reflection of my enjoyment of Bulgarian wedding music. It's right. If you listen to Bulgarian wedding music you find that these guys are completely out their mind – the guys that play. One band I'm refering to is a band called "Ivo Papasov and his Bulgarian wedding band". Their whole frame of mind when it comes to things like creating melodies and playing on their instruments and using times signatures and phrasing is completely alien. I mean they are very comfortable in very odd time signatures although they don't feel as such. And they're very comfortable playing in different print modes that basically have no reflection to Western music at all and their phrasing in the way that they hit their notes is very different. In order to find inspiration to apply to this guitar I studied some of this music and came up with some cool techniques."
STEVE VAI

"I’ve been wanting to record these tunes for a long time. They’ve been in my mind for years and I didn’t even dare to think that one day I’d be able to record them. The memories connected with this music have stayed with me. Like on a film, the images of the people I grew up with and of my parents changed in front of my eyes. I inherited this music from them. Each of these tunes has got its own story. I recorded them for my own pleasure, but then I thought why not let other people have them? Why not give them some pleasure as well? A lot of these people have now grown old and, like me, have dreamed of hearing this music recorded and preserved for future generations. These are tunes which you play when you’re feeling good, during the best moments of your life. I played them just like I feel them today. My performances here are a modern, rather different interpretation. But it’s good to look back and to remember who we are, where we come from and to preserve this music for our children and for those who will come after us."Ivo Papasov

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"Отдавна чаках да запиша тези мелодии. Те са в ума ми от години и дори не си разрешавах да мисля, че един ден ще мога да ги запиша. Спомените свързани с тази музика са в мен. Като на филм образите на хората сред които израснах и на родителите ми се сменят пред очите ми. Аз наследих тази музика от тях. Всяка от тези мелодии има своята история. Записах ги за свое собствено удоволствие, но после си помислих защо да не ги споделя с хората? Защо и на тях да не доставя удоволствие? Много от тези хора вече остаряха, като мен, мечтаеха да чуят тази музика записана и запазена за бъдещите поколения. Това са мелодии, които свириш, когато се чувстваш добре, в най-добрите моменти от живота си. Изсвирих ги точно както ги усещам днес. Изпълненията ми тук са модерна, доста различна интерпретация. Но е добре да погледнем назад и да си спомним кои сме, от къде идваме и да запазим тази музика за децата си и за онези, които ще дойдат след нас."Иво Папазов

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