Yanka Rupkina
Keranka (CD)

WC43007

Great songs from Strandja mountains. You can feel Bulgarian musical history. Yanka Rupkina played a major role in the growing popularity of Balkan music in the 1980s.
Without the distant call of the Strandja mountains in Bulgaria, and the distinct voice of our beloved Yanka Rupkina, the story of Keranka would simply be an historical footnote, in a learned book about the history of music. And what is peculiar to Bulgarian musical history, has been made famous by Yanka, who is the most important ambassador to the world, of this traditional musical artform. Born in a tiny village near the Black Sea port of Bourgas, and at the foot of the Strandja mountains – which give their name to her unique style of singing – it is the origin of her often melancholy songs, with their strange inherent optimism and hope for a better life to come, either here or in the next world.

Track listing:

1. Dafino, Libe (Dafino, My Love)
2. Conteri
3. Keranka A
4. Dai si Vase ruchitsata (Give your hand Vase)
5. Ai da idem
6. Bogdan
7. Angel in the morning feat. Linda Ronstadt
8. Keranka B
9. Poxvali
10. Peperuda (A butterfly was flying)
11. Funeral Song
12. It's Raining hard Outside
13. Skies are Blue featuring Positive Black Soul
14. Tanka Prachka
15. Stratigo
16. Keranka

Published: 2005

Genre: Gypsy & Balkan
Label: World Connection