EVA QUARTET - Harmonies 2002 - Daybreak Dawned

БALKANSKY - Kuker 2009 - Surva

THEODOSII SPASSOV solo - Ultramarin 2001 - Tui-to 1

GYPSY CHILDREN - Music For the film Gypsy Summer 1999 - At  dusk

IVO PAPASOV - Fairground 2003 - this album won the Audience Award at the traditional BBC Radio3 Awards for World Music - Demirdzhyska Ratchenitsa

EVA QUARTET - Harmonies 2002 - White Aishe's Lament

DANIEL SPASSOV & MILEN IVANOV - Blessed Art Thou O Lord 2007 - Thee We Sing

KOROVA GROUP - A Distant Echo 1999 - Pusta mladost

EVA QUARTET - Harmonies 2002 - Sevditze

БALKANSKY - Kuker 2009 - The Green Balkan Mountains

 From  the debut  БALKANSKY album -  'Kuker' , featuring Theodosii Spassov - kaval, voice. 

Kuker

Two years after the debut album "Kuker's" huge success, the creators of БALKANSKY Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov present their new album "ORENDA". Official co-author of the project is the unique musician and "kaval player of the planet" Theodosii Spassov. 
In some of the compositions join guest musicians like Yanka Rupkina (vocals), Haig Yazdzhiyan from Armenia (oud), Milen Kirov (piano) and Ivan Georgiev (kaba bagpipe).
БALKANSKY are : 

THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com 
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com 
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com 

with special guests : 
HAIG YAZDJIAN - Oud and Vocal in N°4 
YANKA RUPKINA - Vocal in N°10 
IVAN GEORGIEV - Kaba Bagpipe in N°6 
MILEN KIROV - Piano in N°10 

Vinyl & CD mastering Shawn Hatfield from Audible Oddities Studio. 
Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio. 

Art direction and graphic design by Ivo Christov. 
Produced by Ivo Christov.

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 01 WIND

Two years after the debut album "Kuker's" huge success, the creators of БALKANSKY Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov present their new album "ORENDA". Official co-author of the project is the unique musician and "kaval player of the planet" Theodosii Spassov. 
In some of the compositions join guest musicians like Yanka Rupkina (vocals), Haig Yazdzhiyan from Armenia (oud), Milen Kirov (piano) and Ivan Georgiev (kaba bagpipe).

БALKANSKY are : 
THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com 
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com 
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com 

with special guests : 
HAIG YAZDJIAN - Oud and Vocal in N°4 
YANKA RUPKINA - Vocal in N°10 
IVAN GEORGIEV - Kaba Bagpipe in N°6 
MILEN KIROV - Piano in N°10 

Vinyl & CD mastering Shawn Hatfield from Audible Oddities Studio. 
Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio. 

Art direction and graphic design by Ivo Christov. 
Produced by Ivo Christov.


БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 02 RADA

Two years after the debut album "Kuker's" huge success, the creators of БALKANSKY Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov present their new album "ORENDA". Official co-author of the project is the unique musician and "kaval player of the planet" Theodosii Spassov. 
In some of the compositions join guest musicians like Yanka Rupkina (vocals), Haig Yazdzhiyan from Armenia (oud), Milen Kirov (piano) and Ivan Georgiev (kaba bagpipe).

БALKANSKY are : 
THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com 
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com 
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com 

with special guests : 
HAIG YAZDJIAN - Oud and Vocal in N°4 
YANKA RUPKINA - Vocal in N°10 
IVAN GEORGIEV - Kaba Bagpipe in N°6 
MILEN KIROV - Piano in N°10 

Vinyl & CD mastering Shawn Hatfield from Audible Oddities Studio. 
Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio. 

Art direction and graphic design by Ivo Christov.
Produced by Ivo Christov. 

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 03 BRAT

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 04 PUSTA MLADOST

Two years after the debut album "Kuker's" huge success, the creators of БALKANSKY Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov present their new album "ORENDA". Official co-author of the project is the unique musician and "kaval player of the planet" Theodosii Spassov. 
In some of the compositions join guest musicians like Yanka Rupkina (vocals), Haig Yazdzhiyan from Armenia (oud), Milen Kirov (piano) and Ivan Georgiev (kaba bagpipe).

БALKANSKY are : 
THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com 
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com 
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com 

with special guests : 
HAIG YAZDJIAN - Oud and Vocal in N°4 
YANKA RUPKINA - Vocal in N°10 
IVAN GEORGIEV - Kaba Bagpipe in N°6 
MILEN KIROV - Piano in N°10 

Vinyl & CD mastering Shawn Hatfield from Audible Oddities Studio. 
Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio. 

Art direction and graphic design by Ivo Christov.
Produced by Ivo Christov.

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 05 SONS OF THE FLAME

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 06 RUCHILO

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 07 DUB

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 08 SHADOWS

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 09 MANA

БALKANSKY - ORENDA - 10 TUDORA

The Bells Of The Stars

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' 

A Cross

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Theodosii Spassov - kaval, voice

Where Are You From

Surva

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Theodosii Spassov - trumpet

At Dawn

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Theodosii Spassov - kaval, voice.

I'm Coming, I'm Coming

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Theodosii Spassov - kaval and Denitsa Seraphimova - vocal

The Green Balkan Mountains

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Peyo Peev - gadulka

The Ninth Guest

From the debut БALKANSKY album - 'Kuker' , featuring Vlada Tomova - vocal

Letter from America / Pusta mladost

БALKANSKY is an audio-visual art project that combines traditional Bulgarian music with electronic sound and vision. It is realized in collaboration between Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov. Later on the musical legend Theodosii Spassov joined the project and nowadays, all three of them present the project live all around the world. When the project is presented as a live act it includes music performed by Theodosii Spassov, mixed with electronic sounds and beats by Ivan Shopov and interactive visuals from Ivo Christov.

Three years after their debut album "Kuker" and its huge success, БALKANSKY present their new album "ORENDA", featuring the guest musicians Yanka Rupkina (Vocal), Haig Yazdjian (Oud, Vocal), Ivan Georgiev (Kaba Bagpipe) and Milen Kirov (Piano).

"ORENDA" contains 10 tracks and it was released on CD and limited edition 180 gram red vinyl by Kuker Music.

Vinyl & CD mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities Studio.

Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio.
Released - 18 October 2012

БALKANSKY are:
THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com
contact : info@balkansky.bg
Online Store : www.store.balkansky.bg

KUKER MUSIC is an independent Bulgarian record label and music publisher founded in 1999 by music producer and graphic designer Ivo Christov, music manager Dimiter Panev and sound engeneer and musician Roumen Spassov. 
For more than 10 years Kuker Music have released albums of the most notable artists in contemporary Bulgarian music history - Theodosii Spassov, Antoni Donchev, Eva Quartet and many others. In 2005 the album "Fairground" by Ivo Papasov produced and published by Kuker Music have won the Audience Award at the traditional BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Currently the company has ceased its activities and its founders are dealing with individual projects.

Ivo "Kuker" Christov is a Bulgarian graphic designer, music producer and photographer currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 1989 he has worked as a graphic designer of musical products. Ivo is best known for his design works for various releases by famous Bulgarian and foreign musicians and bands. He has done artwork for over 300 albums so far.

БALKANSKY / KUKER MUSIC

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