Bum Bum Boje | Catalogo musica flows

Note sull'album

Most of the tracks selected for the debut record by the young Bulgarian singer of gipsy origin, Sissi Atanassova, are representative of a musical style, the Cialga - which is very popular these days in the Balkan area, and is also well known to create a lot of hype at ballrooms in all the main cities of that part of Europe. This genre can also be defined with terms like Folkpop or Ethnopop. Popular music from the Balkan area has always been contaminated by Eastern flavours coming from the domination of the Turkish Empire and from gipsy musical expressions. In recent years folkpop became more and more ethnic, very influenced by typical musical expression from gipsy minorities. From the early 80’s the Eastern stylistic element became part of Serbian folkpop: this style, called Pop-Narodna quickly arrived to Macedonia and Bulgaria through pirate recordings because of the strict monoethnic cultural policy of the