Clips from Black Sea Hotel's Self-Titled Debut Album, Released 2009.

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Panju Pashata

Makedonsko Devojce

Magdaleno Muri Malka Mome

Dragana I Slavej

Bre Dejane

Bezrodna Nevesta

Playlist from Black Sea Hotel's new album, The Forest is Shaking and Swaying, released Fall 2013.
Black Sea Hotel is Willa Roberts, Sarah Small, and Shelley Thomas.

Zhenish Me Mamo

Trendafilcheto, Karamfilcheto

The Forest Is Shaking And Swaying

Sadila Jana

Pusta Mladost

Oj Kukuvichke

Mori Dobro Vecher

Ibish Aga

Angelino Mome

From Black Sea Hotel's Self-Titled Debut Album, released in 2009. 

"Brooklyn's Balkan Vocal Pyrotechnics"

Affectionately dubbed a “punk rock version of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares”, Black Sea Hotel’s distinct yet unified voices create a harmonic blend that is often called otherworldly, haunting, even spellbinding. Black Sea Hotel (Sarah Small, Shelley Thomas, and Willa Roberts) gathers songs from master singers, archival field recordings, and large mid-century choral arrangements, and boldly reimagines them. The woman have carved out an unusual niche for themselves at the nexus between between Balkan folksong and new music. Repertoire ranges from lilting, chillingly sparse, and achingly beautiful to strident, tightly dissonant, packed, and unpredictable.

The trio was featured on Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble’s GRAMMY winning album, Sing Me Home (Best World Music Album of 2017). Other highlights include collaborations with Kronos Quartet, Kremena Stancheva (soloist, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares), The Knights, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Shara Nova (The Decemberists, My Brightest Diamond, Sufjan Stevens), beat-boxer Adam Matta (Carolina Chocolate Drops), and a myriad of brass bands. The group has written and recorded works for film and live installation, including for Josephine Decker’s psychological thriller feature, "Butter on the Latch”, which landed on The New Yorker’s “10 Best Movies of 2014”, and Dirt Empire’s 90’ diameter, 40-channel speaker, immersive ARC Dome. The work premiered at NYC’s Panorama Festival (2017).

Black Sea Hotel's live performances and recordings have been praised by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Public Radio, and David Byrne. Their first record debuted at #2 on iTunes World Music’s top albums, and the trio has since been broadcast live on Public Radio International’s The World Global Hit Segment, on John Schaefer’s Soundcheck WNYC, as well as on WFMU, WNYC, WAMU, KUNM, KSFR, and Sirius XM Radio. The group tours regularly and leads classes, workshops and lecture-demos in Balkan singing across the U.S. Most recently, they toured and taught in Scandinavia (Fall 2018), where they headlined the Lund Choral Festival. They are currently arranging works for their third album and are planning their second European tour for Fall 2019.

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