The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices — formerly known as the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir — was a surprise success in the 1980s, winning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

A wider interest in Bulgarian choirs was prompted by the success of the album series Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares put out in the 1980s by 4AD records and admired by everyone from Bowie and Zappa to ...

Dead Can Dance have released Dionysus, their first record in six years. The album’s title and theme is based on Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy, but they haven’t gone EDM. Dead Can Dance ...

Thirty years ago an all-female folk choir set up in Bulgaria became the darling of Western audiences with its tradition-steeped a cappella singing, before the fall of communism threatened its survival ...

Thirty-one years ago, a recording by an all-female Bulgarian choir singing in a 1,000-year-old style somehow wound up selling a startling 500,000 copies in the United States. The mysterious ...

What do you know about Bulgarian music? Probably not much. Nobody does outside Bulgaria. Others of the smaller Eastern European countries have produced composers of high profile: Czechs, Hungarians, ...

The album, with its enigmatic and mystical title, became one of the first break-out world music hits, selling hundreds of thousands. As a result numerous choirs from Bulgaria toured under the name.