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"From a musical point of view, there is no other band like them in Bulgaria"
Toma Sprostranov - Bulgarian National Radio (Bulgaria)
"They are a talented group of musicians and we have really enjoyed listening to the material here at Real World Records."
Peter Baker - Project Coordinator – Real World Records (UK)
"The Art-Formation offer an original mix of Bulgarian folk with Celtic, New Age, and jazz leanings. Atmospheric, brooding and pretty - like a soundtrack to a remake of 'Blood and Roses’."
Nick Dedina - Listen.com music specialist (USA)
"Very good structural synthesis of contemporary and medieval music, described as modern 'world music."
Helen Kim - "Korea Herald" - (South Korea)
The most interesting modern Balkan music I ever heard.
Pavel Komarov - Moskovskii Komsomolec - (Russia)
The Lot Lorien music group is a Bulgarian professional world-fusion/modern-folk-baroque band that is rapidly gaining popularity worldwide.
The band came into existence in 1997 and has been continually developing a sound that has no equivalent in the world. The creators of the band, Kiril Georgiev and Zlatomir Valchev, were inspired by J.R. Tolkien’s books and thus came the name of the group. Lot Lorien’s compositions, both original and interpretations of some traditional songs, combine elements from Bulgarian, Balkan and world folklore. By presenting traditional music in a contemporary format the band makes it more accessible to people from all around the world. The impressiveness of Lot Lorien’s sound is further enhanced by the use of standard and non-standard instrumentation, such as electro-acoustic guitar and bass, violin, female vocal, drums, percussion, glockenspiel, tapan, djembe, darbouka and others.
The band is a member of IOV (a UNESCO- affiliated International Folk Arts Organization) since 2003.
Some major "Lot Lorien" gigs around the world:
Russian Federation (“Festival SKIF 2005†– Saint Petersburg, “Folk Marathon 2002" - Republic of Karelia/Petrozavodsk, "Green wave Festival 2002" - Moscow & Saint Petersburg, "Alive Water Festival 2000" - Republic of Gorny Altay/Teleck Lake)
Pakistan (â€World Performing and Art Festival 2004†– Lahore)
Italy (“Chieti Festival 2005†– Chieti)
Serbia and Montenegro/Yugoslavia (“Euro Balkan ethno night 2004†- Nis , concert in art pavilion “Cvieta Zuzorich†organized by Jugokoncert –2004 - Belgrade, "United Nation Balkan Festival 2003" – Kosovo/ Prishtina, "Interzone Festival 2002" - Novi Sad )
Turkey (“European Festival and InfoFair 2002" - Ankara)
Croatia ("Ethno ambient Festival 2003"- Split)
Slovenia (“Zmaj Ma Mlade Festival 2005†– Postojna, “Koperground Festival 2005†– Koper, “MUV Festival 2005†– Kranjska Gora, "TrnFest 2003"- Ljubljana)
Romania ("Europe day festival 2005"- Bucharest)
Czech Republic (â€Colours of Ostrava Festival 2004†/member of EFWMF / – Ostrava, concert in “Rock Café†2004 – Praga)
South Korea ("Sin Chon Culture Festival 2001"- Seoul, "Korea World Music & Drum festival 2001" - Seoul)
Finland (“Kihaus Folk Music Festival 2005†– Rääkkylä)
Cyprus ("Famagusta Art Festival 2003" - Famagusta)
Macedonia ("Mobimak Balkan Square 2003" with special guest Theodosii Spassov- Ohrid, “Ohrid Summer Festival 2004†/member of European festival association/ with special guest Theodosii Spassov – Ohrid)
Poland (“Spotkania Folkowe Festival 2005†– Czeremcha, “Concert for international diplomats - day of Slavonic alphabet 2005â€â€“ Warsaw, “Concert for Mielnik Culture House 2005
“ - Mielnik, “Club Kolo 2005†– Warszawaâ€, "Ethosphere Festival 2003"- Skierniwice), “Concert for Bulgarian culture institute in Mazovitski Center of Culture 2003â€- Warsaw)
Bulgaria (International ethno festival “Artzona 2005†– Stara Zagora, “Apollonia Festival 2005†with Theodosii Spassov – Sozopol, “Sea of wine Festival 2005†with Theodosii Spassov – Pomorie, “Christmas Festival Varna 2004†with Theodosii Spassov and artists Nikolay I Marina Roussevi/ - Varna , “Varna Summer Festival 2004†/member of European festival association – Varna, with Theodosii Spassov and artists Nikolay and Marina Roussevi, "Balkan Music Networks 2003" - Sofia, "Salon of the Arts 2001" - Sofia, "Sofia Jazz Festival 2000"- Sofia, "European Month of Culture" - "BG Woodstock 2002"- Plovdiv, - Varna, "Thracian Summer 1999" – Plovdiv)
Discography:
2002 - Lot Lorien - "Eastern wind" – FGRECS (USA), Ethno-art (Bulgaria)
2003 - Lot Lorien & Theodosii Spassov - "Live in Ohrid", Ethno-art (Bulgaria)
2005 - Participation in compilation “Z wieskiego podworzaâ€, SMKL (Poland)
2005 - Participation in compilation “Ethno-jazzâ€, Magazine Stereo & Video (Russia)
2007 - Lot Lorien - "Lot Lorien"
Contacts:
www.lot-lorien.com
www.clcx.org
