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In December the album entered the prestigious World Music Charts Europe where it stayed for record-breaking 5 months and reached 3rd position in February After his graduation in , Nikola started working in an architectural bureau. It's a music inspired by that environment but also in reaction to it, a journey down roads less travelled, through the Bulgarian backwoods and back via the laptop to the 21st century. Bulgarian music Living people Bulgarian musicians Musicians from Sofia births. The songs of his debut album "Opa Hey!

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. After putting some of his tracks online in social networks, his compositions were noticed by Henry Ernst, founder of the Berlin-based label Asphalt Tango Records. This page was last edited on 28 Julyat The response by the critics was again positive. It's a music inspired by that environment but also in reaction to it, a journey down roads less travelled, through the Bulgarian backwoods and back via the laptop to the 21st century.

In a positive review of the album Opa Hey! Nikola quit his job and concentrated almost all his energy on creating music, making his living as a freelance architect. His experiments with digital music date back to his student years.

It is an ethno-music born of a city lacking cultural identity that is torn between contemporary European globalism, Balkan provincialism and a living if largely forgotten folk tradition.

Balkan musicelectronic music. The songs of his debut album "Opa Hey!

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The DissolveNovember 2, Kottarashky is a 21st century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past - vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz and blues, psychedelic sounds, club beats and extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, guttural hfy and lyrical laments are all molded and thrown into new shapes. Kottarashky is an architect by vocation, which perhaps explains the palpable sense of place in his music. He studied architecture in his home city.

After some time Atanas Popov drums joined them.

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Bulgarian music Living people Bulgarian musicians Musicians from Sofia hry. Retrieved from " https: In a few months Nikola Gruev signed a contract with the company.

Nikola Gruev was born on 4 September in Sofia, Bulgaria, in an artistic family. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. A month later the band played also in front of its home Bulgarian audience.

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His specific style started getting shape a few years later, when he decided to integrate into his pieces samples from terrain recordings that he did during his trips throughout Bulgaria. For more information please contact: Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. In December the album entered the prestigious World Music Charts Europe where it stayed for record-breaking 5 months and reached 3rd position in February After his graduation inNikola started working in an architectural bureau.

Back then he was experimenting in his bedroom at home that was turned into a mini studio Kottarashky is composing there till today. The album was released on 4 May again by Asphalt Tango Records. This article needs additional citations for verification.

There followed a number of concerts and tours in Bulgaria and abroad. Summer trips to small villages and the marginal regions of Bulgaria were key source of inspiration for the album, and his music samples a broad palette of he and influences - enigmatic field recordings by artists unknown alongside Boris Kovac, Les Yeux Noir, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Jony Iliev and compelling Hungarian singer Mitsou.

Views Read Edit View history. There he applies the same collage approach as in his compositions. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.