Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Donika Venkova




Found some cool Bulgarian records. I love the flag-like bright colors and type, and the glasses are just too good. In the first record somebody fires up a drum machine for a while. The second record (Emil Something-or-other) is not very good -- I was fooled by the lipstick and liner notes mentioning moog and melotron. But it's still fun to listen to if you imagine the singer is an off-duty vampire who only wants to sing.

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  1. Love the way those bright colors are printed and the first 15 seconds of the song are really promising...
    I also like your off-duty vampire theory, sounds plausible!

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  2. ha ha, yeah everything goes wrong after about 15 seconds. but i admire emil's hair and vampirism.

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  3. It's definitely Emil Dimitrov - Bulgarian 60-70's variety superstar.

    He's got a really psyched-out album, which came out in 1974 - right before the one you have. It's a double album and it has a lot of great songs on it, actually.

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  4. Cool, I think they had that album at the shop too. Deceptively un-cool cover though? Can't remember.

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  5. It's this one: http://www.discogs.com/%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB-%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%BE-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0/release/3872427

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  6. yep, i'm pretty sure i saw that one. whoops, chose the wrong one!

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