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Perunika
A'cappella / Folk / Roots Music

"Have you heard a flower sing..."



London
United Kingdom

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Member Since6/19/2006
Band Website www.worldmusic.net/wmn/news/item/perunika-trio
Band MembersView Perunika Trio's Sonicbids EPK
View Perunika Trio's EPK EUGENIA GEORGIEVA - the artistic director of the trio, started piano lessons at the age of 5, studied at a music school in USSR and won a gold medal in 1984 in Russian festival "Alyosha" (Stary Oskol), in the children's category. She has sung in various choirs in USSR and Bulgaria. In 1996 she started her own rock band "Lady Jane", which played on Bulgarian national radio Horizont and was invited to participate in the European Cultural Month - Plovdiv, 1999.Since 2003 working on several house/dance projects as a singer/songwriter (also check www.myspace.com/eugenieg).Currently a lead singer with Klezmer/ Balkan outfit Max Pashm Band. Former member 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", backing vocals for the band"Julia" (with drummer Dave Rowntree - ex-BLUR) and Tonci Huljic (BOND), live sessions for BBC3 etc. DESSISLAVA VASILEVA is a talented young singer who studied under 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 the Academic choir of AMTI as well as with Trakia Ensemble, part of world-famous Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares. Serbian-born JASMINA STOSIC recently graduated from The Guildfrod 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 James Sherman and Sam Babenia (composers of Elysium- Charlotte Church) three tracks for a concept album. Former members include co-founder Victoria Mancheva and Victoria Evstatieva.
InfluencesTrio Bulgarka, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Nadka Karadjova
Sounds Like Age-old Bulgarian traditional singing with a modern twist DISCOGRAPHY Introducing Perunika Trio, Never Mind The Balkans - Here's Max Pashm
Record LabelWMN/Introducing
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Sep 12 2009 4:00P
Mayor’s Thames Festival - South Bank London
Sep 13 2009 4:00P
Mayor’s Thames Festival -South Bank London
Oct 11 2009 8:00P
TBC Utrecht
Oct 12 2009 8:00P
Amsterdam/ TBC Amsterdam
Oct 23 2009 8:00P
Prema Arts Centre Uley, Gloucestershire
Nov 13 2009 8:00P
Village festival Hartland, Devon, Southwest
Nov 14 2009 6:00P
Village festival Braunton, Devon, Southwest

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Chichester Observer - Perunika Trio, Old Kitchen, Bishop's Palace  (view more)

Eugenia on BBC3 Late Junction - 21st May 2009  (view more)

Interviews in fRoots, Fanograf (Russia) and Chichester Observer  (view more)

ALBUM REVIEWS IN THE UK AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS  (view more)

PERUNIKA TRIO WIN THIRD PRIZE IN LLANGOLLEN EISTEDDFOD  (view more)

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   About Perunika
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   I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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Jul 9 2009 11:36 AM

The Cherrychords





Jun 26 2009 8:08 AM

Hello Sisters
(We say it again)
Your voices are sounding sooo beautiful together, we love your music with all our heart!

Your cherries
AkaBella





May 13 2009 10:49 PM

Bella Add Thanks
The London Bulgarian Choir





May 3 2009 1:33 PM

The Cherrychords





Apr 22 2009 11:12 PM


Hello Perunika
Thank you
Your Singing is so beautiful

PeaceLoveMusic

Elke & Niels
Ladom Ensemble





Mar 4 2009 9:52 PM

Greetings from Canada!

Ladom Ensemble
Jukijaimais





Feb 27 2009 9:10 PM

Thanx for the add

Great songs

Peace, Love and Jukijaimais
Ermanno Librasi





Feb 15 2009 2:41 PM

Thanks for friendship and compliments for your great voices. Greetings from Italy.
Alessandro Catte





Oct 12 2008 5:10 AM

congratulation for you music...and thanks for the add.

Alessandro Catte
ČAČI VORBA





Oct 1 2008 11:03 PM

Beautiful singing...best regards from Poland

Stephanie Rountree ♫





Sep 21 2008 9:27 PM

Thanks for your friendship.
Your vocals are beautiful!
J Rokka’s album out real soon..LISTEN UP!!!





Aug 13 2008 1:51 PM

i love you girls, i cant believe i bumped into you sweet girls at the small world stage at the big chill
i hope your journey back to london was safe
me and my sisters and my mother really love all the songs on the demo you gave to me.
you have have alot of power in your voices
and i know power when i hear it, i can see a lot of connection to the nature realm through your sound
im glad to have met you
lots and lots of Elven Love
Jerome
Dj ClicK





Jul 16 2008 10:11 AM

hope to see you soon in the better stage conditions..all the best Click

Trio Tzane





Jul 6 2008 5:56 PM

hello, sisters! beautiful...
Roos





Jun 17 2008 3:13 AM

Thanks for the friendship! Great music!
Greetings from Belgium, Roos
Danica Krstic





May 30 2008 8:25 PM

Eugenia best wishes from Serbia-litle Danica
Chilli Fried





May 30 2008 12:03 PM

Hi Perunikas!

Really looking forward to working with you next Thursday.

Jamie

CHILLI FRIED NORTH PRESENTSBULGARIANS AND BEDOIUN!

LIVE ON STAGE: PERUNIKA TRIO (sublime Bulgarian a cappella women singers)

+ SPECIAL GUEST: GOMA GHANAEIM + other members of BEDOIUN JERRY CAN BAND (deep roots music from the Sinai Desert)

+ RESIDENT DJ: JAMIE RENTON

@ DARBUCKA, 182 ST JOHN STREET, LONDON, EC1V 4JZ
THURSDAY 5TH JUNE 2008, 8PM – 12AM
£5 / £3 concs
El Mastaba per la musica popolare egiziana





May 19 2008 9:41 PM

thank you for the friendship, all the best.
Elmastaba.



the simsimiyya, a folk-instrument indigenous to Egypt from the time of the pharaohs.
babyhead





May 12 2008 4:25 PM

Hello Thanks for getting in contact and for the Friendship! Click below to join the mailing list for irregular updates and news Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting info@babyhead.co.uk

Keep checking back for news and dates. Much love babyhead

Fragile





Feb 27 2008 1:10 PM

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Feb 26 2008 9:14 PM

Great!
Greatings from Vienna!


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Feb 20 2008 10:54 AM

i know i said this before but you guys are really really great!!
The Hazi Bros.


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Jan 22 2008 9:23 PM

Regards from Berlin!

Hazi Bros.
Mladen Golić - Exorcist





Jan 20 2008 7:29 PM

Thank you for adding me as a friend. God bless you and your work and give you peace, good health and all good. Best regards and best wishes from Slovenia.
www.eksorcist.com
Del Palmer





Jan 6 2008 2:57 PM

A pleasure to have you as friends... Be happy and stay creative...


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