Vladimir Ivanoff is a musicologist and percussionist from Bulgaria. He has started a project called "L'Orient Imaginaire", a project that aims to blend Eastern European, Oriental and European early music into a whole. The CD "Labyrinth" is a striking example of this. Together with an 11-voice choir and twelve instrumentalists, all playing authentic Bulgarian folk music instruments, he manages to
… create a peculiar but convincing mix of Bulgarian folk music and European early music. The listener becomes disoriented, as it were, in chronological music history; the combinations of eg French polyphonic works from the Montpellier Codex with Bulgarian performance practices sound insidiously 'real'. A handsome and above all imaginative CD. (GO) _more
