Orchestra Kristal (Bulgarian: оркестър Кристал) are a Bulgarian pop-folk or chalga band from Yambol. It is one of two bands, the other being the similarly named Orchestra Kristali from Mihailovgrad, symbolizing the pop-folk genre in Bulgaria.[1]

Discography

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Studio albums

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Bulgarian albums

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  • Vǎrnete se, bǎlgari (1991)
  • Robinja sǎm tvoja (1993)
  • Mili moj (1994)
  • Toni Dačeva i duet Šans (1995)
  • Toni Dačeva i Mustafa Čaušev (1995)
  • Kralica sǎm az (1996)
  • Vsičko e ljubov (1998)
  • Edna celuvka (1999)
  • V novija vek (1999)
  • Magija (2001)
  • Na trapeza s ork. Kristal (2001)
  • Kjučeci (2002)
  • Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 2 (2002)
  • Balkanika (2003)
  • Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 3 (2003)
  • Romski biseri (2004)
  • Tik Tak (2004)
  • Čat-čat (2004)
  • Super kjučeci (2005)
  • Hit kjučeci (2006)

Turkish Albums

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  • Bizim İkimiz Esmeriz (2001)
  • Reyhan ve Ork. Kristal (2002)
  • Biz Şekeriz (2003)
  • Tatlı Kız (2004)
  • Kaderim (2005)
  • Al Beni (2006)

Compilations

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  • Hitovete na Kristal (1997)
  • Zlatnite Hitove na ork. Kristal (2006)

Video albums

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  • Ork. Kristal (1991)
  • Robinya sum tvoya (1992)
  • Mili Moi (1993)
  • Kristal i Priyateli (1995)
  • Vsichko e lyubov (1998)
  • Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 2 (2003)
  • Biz şekeriz (2003)
  • Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 3 (2003)

References

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  1. ^ Donna Anne Buchanan Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities) 2007 "1992-93, the genre referred to now (2005) as pop-folk or chalga by the Bulgarian public lacked a single label. A few friends in Sofia initially termed it kristal in relation to two popular bands: Orchestra Kristal, from Yambol, and Orchestra Kristali, based in Montana (formerly the city of Mihailovgrad). Orchestra Kristal' s director, Krasimir Hristov, produced every aspect of the band's recordings in his own studio, which may also account for how its name came to signify the genre (Dimov 1995 : 16). These two bands helped inspire the formation of myriad other groups whose recordings, like those of Kristal and Kristali themselves, incline toward a regionally amalgamated sound, thus defying easy categorization."