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Perunika Trio

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About Me

Once upon a time, when Slavic tribes were not yet Christian, there was a mighty pagan god of thunder, Perun. He lived in Pirin mountain with his beloved young bride Perunika. To celebrate her stunning loveliness, the Slavs named after her the enigmatic iris - perunika...The tender stalk of PERUNIKA appeared in October 2005 as a duet, later blossoming into a trio. What brought the three singers together was their love and fascination by the dramatic beauty of Bulgarian folk music, where pagan past, church slavonic tradition and five centuries of Ottoman rule fuse. PERUNIKA are also performing Russian and Macedonian songs, taking you to an exciting journey into Slavic spirituality..."The Perunika Trio show that you don’t have to be a vast choir to create that haunting, keening sound. Their pure voices interweave in an extraordinary range of vocal effects, and while the members are all cosmopolitan urbanites long resident in Britain, you’d never guess it from the easy way they pitch into these songs of the Bulgarian forests and plains. Rustic, without being overly romantic,(...) combining a madrigal-like delicacy with a brooding Eastern Orthodox spirituality." Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2008"There was a time when Bulgarian voices were a mystery to all but the most devoted world music listeners. The London-based Perunika Trio cannot quite recapture the shock of the first Bulgarian recordings to be heard in the west, but their collection of songs still contains surprises (...) mathematically strange harmonies and lurching rhythms abound, as do spurned maidens, wounded warriors and trees."David Honigmann, Financial Times, 1st March 2008 "...As fine a slice of Eastern Euro a'capella as you're likely to find this side of Trio Bulgarka" Jamie Renton, FROOTS, 18/2008 I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Member Since: 19/06/2006
Band Website: www.worldmusic.net/wmn/news/item/perunika-trio
Band Members:
View Perunika Trio's EPKEUGENIA GEORGIEVA - the artistic director of the trio, is best known for her versatility, with work ranging from rock and lounge to folk and orthodox chants. She has sung in various choirs in USSR and Bulgaria. In 1996 she started her own rock band "Lady Jane", who played on Bulgarian national radio Horizont and were invited to participate in the European Month Of Culture - Plovdiv, 1999. Since 2003 working on several house/dance projects as a singer/songwriter (also check www.myspace.com/eugenieg). Currently lead singer with Klezmer/ Balkan outfit Max Pashm Band. Former member and soloist of London Bulgarian Choir, voted BBC3 Choir of the Year 2006 in the Open category. Session work for the BBC drama soundtrack "The Virgin Queen" (Ivor Novello award winner 2007), backing vocals for "Julia" (Dave Rowntree - ex-BLUR) and Tonci Huljic (BOND), collaborations with Phil Thornton and Transglobal Underground (winners of BBC World Music Awards 2007), live experimental sessions for BBC3 and BBC World Service etc. DESSISLAVA VASILEVA is a talented young singer who studied traditional singing with Bulgarian folk legend Kalinka Zgurova and is currently a student at the Academy of Music and Dance (AMTI) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She has sung with AMTI Academic Choir and recorded with them an album of arrangements by K. Kyurkchiyski (Grammy Award winner 1990). She has also sung recently with Trakia Ensemble, who were part of the world-famous project Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares in the early nineties.Serbian-born JASMINA STOSIC recently graduated from The Guildford School of Acting Conservatoire. Professional Theatre Credits include: Sweeney Todd at The Royal Festival Hall alongside Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman, Jenufa at The Arcola Theatre, The Wiz at The Bloomsbury Theatre; the leading role in The Dybbuk at The King’s Head Theatre for which she received rave reviews. In 2002 she recorded with James Sherman and Sam Babenia (composers of Elysium- Charlotte Church) three tracks for a concept album.
Influences: Trio Bulgarka, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Nadka Karadjova
Sounds Like: Age-old Bulgarian traditional singing with a modern twistDISCOGRAPHY Introducing Perunika Trio, Never Mind The Balkans - Here's Max Pashm
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

U.N.I.T.E. featuring Perunika Trio - new album out 17th May 2010

U.N.I.T.E>GATHERING OF STRANGERS is a project thought up on a cold night somewhere in Central Europe by Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan from the UK based multi-ethnic multi-musical collective Trans...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:33:00 GMT

Perunika trio - CD distribution for Bulgaria

Dyukyan Meloman - Bulgarian distributors of Introducing Perunika triohttp://www.meloman-bg.com/
Posted by on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:41:00 GMT

Chilli Fried 5th Birthday - Time Out best free gig of the week

http://www.timeout.com/london/music/event/165833/los-chinche s-perunika-trioWhat people thought of us:http://www.charliegillett.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7343 4#73434
Posted by on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Chichester Observer - Perunika Trio, Old Kitchen, Bishop's Palace

The Perunika Trio, Old Kitchen, Bishop's Palace. ...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:18:00 GMT

Interviews in fRoots, Fanograf (Russia) and Chichester Observer

In the April issue of fRoots Jamie Renton profiles Perunika Trio in the context of the Bulgarian scene in London, and another interview in Moscow youth magazine Fanograf (for those who read Russian ...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 06:33:00 GMT

ALBUM REVIEWS IN THE UK AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Perunika is a blossom named after the mythical goddess of spring and eternal youth who is said to make rain when she milks her cloud-cows; Bulgarian villages traditionally held festivals led by girls ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:52:00 GMT

PERUNIKA TRIO WIN THIRD PRIZE IN LLANGOLLEN EISTEDDFOD

Perunika Trio were awarded the third prize in Folk Song Group category in prestigious Llangollen Eisteddfod, one of the major musical events in Wales.Not surprisingly the girls competed for London, Bu...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Perunika Trio at the The Ticket, BBC Wold service

Perunika Trio were invited for an interview with Mark Coles of the BBC world service. Mark's programme, The Ticket, reviews and presents new and exciting projects from the world of music and arts.He...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:39:00 GMT

OUR DEBUT ALBUM IS OUT 17TH MARCH!

We are proud to announce that our debut album "Introducing Perunika Trio/ Bulgarian Living Traditions: Haunting Acoustic Harmonies" is released in the UK and worldwide on 17th March 2008 and will be ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 03:09:00 GMT

Official album launch @ Le Quecumbar

Our debut album launch at Le Quecumbar went with great success on Monday, 28th April 08. Le Quecumbar, a lovely Gypsy swing and Balkan music venue in the heart of Battersea, was full and buzzing (htt...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:00 GMT