take that, dream theater

@Gregorypeckory

4 жыл бұрын

Hilarious! I love DT, but that was hilarious! (And I think this is the better band, even though I realize it's like saying Mango kicks Orange's ass; and it does, cuz Mango is the Ivo of fruits! Also I just had 2 shots of tequila, so shudup!

@uthredragnarson2762

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful comment.

@hongoslongos5203

3 жыл бұрын

Dream who? They sound as 1 year child compare to ivo. I love DT till scenes from a memory, no more patience

@tose917

2 жыл бұрын

@@hongoslongos5203 DT sounds like ABBA compared to this. 🤣

@josipmimica

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Everyone: What time signature is this? Ivo Papasov: YES!

so incredibly hard if you dont play an instrument you might not be able to fully appreciate whats going on here .......... my God ....... just ............ insane .

This is a wedding band. Imagine this band playing this song on your wedding day

@bdschannel4733

Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine is getting married in August and she asked me to recommend her a band to play at her wedding. Guess who I recommended. Now she is actually trying to arrange them to play there.

That’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard

I saw this exact band in 1990 in a small jazz club. One of the most mind bending musical experiences of my life.

@namcat53

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. It was at the Kuumbwa Jazz Club in Santa Cruz. It blew us all away; so densely intricate and free at the same time...more notes per second than anyone could process, yet we got into it. Thay didn't speak a word of English. Incredible.

@puzzlepuddles6712

Жыл бұрын

that's balkan polymeters for ya

@bdschannel4733

Жыл бұрын

Saw them live last weekend in a local club. They are still absolutely amazing!

If you were born in Bulgaria that crazy time signature would come to you naturally. You don't have to think about 3/8 7/16 or 17/32 :) That kind of music is all over the place there.

@einarabelc5

5 жыл бұрын

Why I've never heard of Prog Bulgarian drummers then?

@fromsofiafromsofia

3 жыл бұрын

exactly

@tetrusadima

2 жыл бұрын

@@einarabelc5 cause prog rock is just crap

@jenniferpo5232

2 жыл бұрын

@@tetrusadima i think prog rock is a stupid label by people who like to classify things. It either jams or it doesnt

I have much respect for Bulgarians when it comes to their incredible musicianship and discipline to write such amazing pieces like these. Much respect from an Albanian

I saw these guys in a small jazz club in Santa Cruz having heard of them before. It was a unique experience; we're still trying to process what we heard. We loved it.They didn't speak a word of English. We all spoke music. I wish these Night Music shows would be released. Every one was unique and amazing. David Sanborn had great taste in music. I recorded a few on VHS.

For anyone wondering, the song is "Kopanitsa" from the 1989 release "Orpheus Ascending".

@einarabelc5

5 жыл бұрын

More like descending....flat into the ground.

@progfox

2 жыл бұрын

@@einarabelc5 what

@reubennb2859

Жыл бұрын

His solo on the album version might be even better. Gonna be transcribing it soon

My Music Cultures of the World professor posted this video with the following message: "I also wanted to share some amazing, almost-uncountable music from the Balkans: the amazing clarinetist Ivo Papasov and his band. Not only do they keep track of lightning-fast, odd meters, but they improvise on top of it (and always seem to know where they are)." She challenged us to count the meter of this song. I. Can't. Even.

Най-великия показва как трябва да се свири.

This performance is ridiculous. I couldn't help but notice the woman sitting throughout and wonder what the deal is. At 2:48 She gets up, the tempo changes and I know it's about to go down, but have zero idea how. At 3:12 I really wanted the song to be over so I could start over and listen to it again. I've spent 60 minutes listening to a 6 minute song. That drummer and those vocals really do it for me.

@kavalkid1

3 жыл бұрын

Full analysis is found in this book - Bulgarian Harmony In Village, Wedding, and Choral Music of the Last Century by Kalin S. Kirilov

@borbetomagus

6 ай бұрын

The woman is Mariya Karafezieva, who is married to Ivo Papasov.

I'll never forget the night I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to see if there was something on the tube that would help get me back to sleep. Tuned in just as Dave introduced these guys. My life has never been the same. Where can I get more in 11, 13, or 17?

@321snoot

9 жыл бұрын

pbwbrian53 I, too, watched this after I came home from a gig the night it aired. Absolutely jaw-dropping. Don't know about you, but I sure as hell couldn't get right to sleep after hearing this!

@webstercat

8 жыл бұрын

+321snoot I too saw it that night and was recording it. Never got toired of playing it for people.

@TheJunkieBox

5 жыл бұрын

Meshuggah - Do Not Look Down is in 17

I remember watching this in 1989 (GREAT TV show) and it made the hair on my arms stand on end. I had been listening to the Bulgarian Women's Chorus (also fantastic), and Andy Irvine's interpretations of Balkan Music, but I never dreamed there was music like this. It was like hearing Charlie Parker for the first time. I use this word very infrequently: this band was awesome.

@bdschannel4733

Жыл бұрын

And they still are awesome. I saw them live last weekend in a local club. It's the first time I drive home after a concert and turn off the radio, cause I just know that whatever they play on it would sound just stupid after what I had just heard. Amazing!

Omg the tempo after the key solo was on 🔥!!!!!!

Stevie Vai brought me here. Completely out of their minds, as he said.

Anyone who could transcribe this, and in the right time signature, would be the greatest musician of all time! ha Go Ivo!

@bbear3886

2 жыл бұрын

@George Collier could possibly do a decent job of it if they decide to do it.

Holy crap! Been a musician all my life and I've got no idea whats going on here. How you can groove like that to such odd meters I have no idea.

@ivoiliev1211

9 ай бұрын

Balkan stuff mate

@fff5081

7 ай бұрын

It's a really fast 7/8. Copy and paste this after the KZread URL to see how people dance to a very similar song /watch?v=UOH_quKtnRk

@fff5081

7 ай бұрын

m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/h4N8wdOue9fUgs4.html

keyboard solo gets me every time. and the way the whole things just stops at the end. brilliant.

Целият свят да се съберат немогат да изсвирят такава музика поклон!!!!!!!!

This one has been on KZread for almost twenty years on different channels - and folks still watch it and like it, for it's just such a mindblowing performance! Just Awesome musical and technical mastery...

I like the premise that there's a thread of a bass line running through all this!

това.е.човекат.който.ме.събужда.от.сън.познавам.неговата.музика.и.на.сън.защото.няма.кой.да.свири.като.папазов.и.след.200г

just found a copy of Orpheus Ascending on vinyl. The most incredible jazz record of the 1980's, best thing that's happened to me all year! Absolute masterpiece!

I was blown away when I first saw this show ... and still am!

The time signature on this is crazy...they make it look so easy

I'm a professional musician and I've used this with students for years as the best example of weird odd-meter stuff around.

The greatest clarinet! His music is unhuman and yet nothing makes you feel so much like a human.

Dear God... My musical brain just exploded

The Best Bulgarian Folk Music Group 1987-95? TRAKIA..it became a pressure(can we call it this) between Popazov and saxophonist Younakov at the and. Its sad, but their story and the concerts, CD`S will forever bee there. It nice to see the friends still Papazov and his accordion player, Neshev, still plays together:) But still..I really wish old "Trakia" could do a "reunion" in 2020:) pls...with the old members:)(from summer 87..as we all know and have seen soo many times:)

Up next on 'So you think you can play the clarinet'

@Zionesify

5 жыл бұрын

That’s right ;) greetings from Bulgaria

@pasullica

4 жыл бұрын

Check this one. Another crazy jazz performance from them... kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2d6yLqjk9qcfc4.html

Good God. That is musical insanity..... what a hero !!

I remember switching the TV as this started, didn't know what had hit me. I assumed it was some crazed avant-garde shit, but in fact it's straight-up Bulgarian folk music: they dance to 13/8, 11/16 & all those kinda math-y time signatures there. I did sound for a Bulgarian band the other night, the crowd even clapped for an encore in 7/8!

@velizaryasenoff3897

8 жыл бұрын

bulgaria great this style music

@TheBraav

5 жыл бұрын

It's not only Bulgaria. Whole Balkan has odd rhythm music in different time signatures. You can say that Bulgaria is in the fastest tempo 😊

Imagine being a snake and this man just pulls up with his clarinette

Честит юбилей Легендо.Бъди жив и здрав ти и цялата ти фамилия.

now this is my kinda wedding im hiring them 100%

LOVE the cadenza/Bartokian fanfare at 4:32. This band is just magical; they are all scary, twisted monsters. Ivo sounds like Coltrane on acid/crack but with more chops. And I like it when they go really fast at the end. Then there's the bass player's pants...

@antonyosifov6095

5 жыл бұрын

0 F*s given by all those guys. That's my definition of bad ass :)

@poodle3507

5 жыл бұрын

Cameron Hood Bartok was very influenced by folklore, and he was Hungarian, very close to the Balkans, so this makes a lot of sense :)

I want the kind of swagger that shoulder-organ guy has

@kevken8725

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@johnnysuede3156

3 жыл бұрын

That's an accordion

@funksterdotorg

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnnysuede3156 you're an accordion

@pakoti96

3 жыл бұрын

Shoulder Organ LMAOOO :D

This definitely goes on my funeral music spot. Wedding or funeral, which when i think about it is kind of the same.

Those guys are GODS!!! БРАВО!

I feel like im being chased by little people in a maze and cant get out...

@MsSlucyna

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, kopanica is a kind of a very lively, powerful group dance

@jag0937eb

3 жыл бұрын

somewhat psychotic little people, but not too terribly aggressive

@MsSlucyna

3 жыл бұрын

@@jag0937eb Why little?

@jag0937eb

3 жыл бұрын

@@MsSlucyna IDK, ask Neil Tipton , it's his little people.

Bloody amazing phrasing and speed

The keyboard solo made so casual that it could leave cory henry like that "disoriented john travolta" meme

Welcome to our Balkan world 😀😀💪💪

Ivo Papazov is king!

Right before the 4:32 mark, the guitarist is rockin out and has this face like he's getting ready to rip into some mean riffs, then he strums just a basic chord progression that's the slowest part of the whole song!!! Cracked Up!!!

Усъвършенствал кралнето номер 1 за всички времена легенда

aachh achh , what great music this is, like from another planet, with never ending energy

Номер1 за всички времена

Actually, Bulgarian players don't count it quite the same way... e.g. 7/16 they simply count as 3 with a longish three. e.g. 1,2,3_; 1,2,3_ . Or 11/16, is 1,2,3_,4,5, etc, etc.

@TheBraav

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on explanation 👌 Bravo from the Balkans!

@StefanDLazarov

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Green Yep, it's like one,two, thre-e-e, one,two,thre-e-e !

@edmondlekpreka

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Green that’s not right. There is a fantastic way to play the rithm, but your english 4/4 can never understand. There’s something like 7/8, 11/12, 7+7+7+4, or 7+5/8....

@miropaqui

3 жыл бұрын

That's correct. But the dancers...this tempo...😲😲😲

@pakoti96

3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the song! The one-two-threee you described is casually called as a masculine Rachenitsa, but we also have a feminine Rachenitsa which is counted with a long first beat - oneeee-two-three.

Did everybody dance? I love this music. I call it dancin' in yo head. Don't try to capture it, just let it flow.

I need a bride that can accurately dance to this

@user-zs3re6fh4n

3 жыл бұрын

Try"bulgarian know how to dance"

Даде тон в музиката и всички го имитират, кой - по сполучливо, кой по-малко, жив и здрав да е Ибряма!

Frenk Zappa will love this shit!!!!

Thanks Steve Vai, Very Cool

@moonlight_94

Жыл бұрын

one of the guitarists Steve Vai?

@XCS8000

Жыл бұрын

@@moonlight_94 Steve said he's a fan of this because it doesn't resemble Western music at all 😂

Who's here thanks to Adam? BASS

@AlgyCuber

5 жыл бұрын

me

@jacobbass6226

5 жыл бұрын

Billy Trespassers the lick in 5/8 that’s on that thumbnails actually fun to plau

@derickharshbarger

4 жыл бұрын

Me, and so thankful. Immediately hooked. This shit is wild

Late Michael Brecker was crazy about this music, and here one can understand why! He even took lessons

3:47 epic solo

Accidently played this at 2x speed and it felt like my brain was melting!

Fastest band in the west, uh, east.

İVO PAPAZOV NOMER EDNO 👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

O'lBilly Bulgarian drumming fan...

scioccato!! impressionante

I'm here because of Steve Vai XD

@fryingwiththeantidote2486

7 жыл бұрын

Zappa boi

This song is on their C.D. orpheous ascending, but this versiion is 10000x better.

I know the vocals are the focus when she starts singing at 3:04 however that sliding bass line in the background is beautifully sad

ivo droppin fire fr 🔥

now i k what steve via was saying WOW

@akamrblast

10 жыл бұрын

what the...

@benirodriguez9516

9 жыл бұрын

haha.. I came here also after watching Vai! ;) and yeah... this is some crazy stuff!.. hahaha... Im glad Im not Bulgarian or going to marry there :P I mean, I doubt every "wedding musician" has this quality!, and theres nothing worse than playing this kind of music poorly... that would be very ear damaging! :P Kudos to Ivo Papasov and his wedding band.. not bad at all... but crazy! :P

@benirodriguez9516

9 жыл бұрын

btw... if you want to hear even more of his music.. search for: Иво Папазов

Even at 0.75× speed this is neck-breaking.

Thanx Bill burr fer tha recommendation 🎉

@toskosy

11 ай бұрын

Wtf😂Where did he recommend this song?

@fff5081

7 ай бұрын

Where did he say this

I NEED A CD OF THIS

Cannot comprehend...overheating... And to think they can probably pull off a five-hour session like this... Being a Serbian neighbor and musician who's played and listened to a fair share of Balkan folk music in nonstandard time signatures, it still makes me wonder how the hell they manage to learn tunes like this note-by-note and not spend 50% of their lives sitting in a room staring at sheet music.

@stoimendimitrov

6 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is that if you even ask them about notes sheets, they'd probably wonder what that is. Most of the greatest Bulgarian musicians never went to musical school or the like, they just picked up the instrument at a very early age and by their teens, they were already playing at weddings. Growing up in Bulgaria I can tell you, weddings are insane, they can literary last around the clock. It's crazy but magical!

@duleopasni

5 жыл бұрын

крца и после оволико година! :Д

@milevarez

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Ivo told in one interview that on one wedding he made 12 hour playing 3 hour sleep and than playing again

This song inspires Steve Vai to write "Freak Show Excess" ??

You've got it all wrong... It starts with 18/16 (it's acutally 7/16 + 11/16) 3 bars Then 6/16 4 bars. This repeats twice. Then 18/16 2 bars and 7/16 4 bars. This also repeats twice. Next is 16 bars of 7/16. Then 6 bars of 15/16 and a 2 bar break in 9/16. It then runs into 9/16 and keeps going until 2:37 where this absurd break appears. The break goes 2 bars of 12/16 and 2 bars of 15/16 repeated twice. It then goes into 2/4 (or more precisely 6/16?!?) and runs like this until the end. 4/4????

@jag0937eb

4 жыл бұрын

thx, this cleared everything. Now, where is my calculator

@pbwbrian53

3 жыл бұрын

This is sort of like an explanation of Tenet.

some of the craziest shit ive ever heard

I like the "stinger" at the end after all that came before it. (a stinger is the very last note they played) Hilarious.

this is pretty much the greatest thing ever. EVER. btw, the song is 'na trapesa' from the album 'orpheus ascending'.

Steve Vai brought me here

Came to this after reading Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times of Michael Brecker. He was getting into this music at the end of his life. Almost sounds like something from the mind of Frank Zappa!

I wonder how many people looked up Bulgarian wedding music because of Steve Vai? Zappa worthy...

@kamendimitrov3051

Жыл бұрын

Vai never got it right, and few westerners ever do. In Bulgaria odd signatures r interpreted differently. For example one of most beloved folk dances "rachenitza" is in 7/8 and and it goes 1, 2, 3ee with prolonged 3. Cheers

all they are great musicians - im listening Ivo&Co Ltd already many years, but this percussionist - 7th wonder at least.

5:41 = King

Makes sense when you're going so fast, when you think about it.

I want this played at my funeral while being lowered into the earth.

Thanks Bill

Awesome.

Thanx Mr.Vai

Apparently Steve Vai takes some inspiration from music like this for his quirky kinda guitar licks. :)

The only way to dance to this is by having a seizure.

@sgtsnakepit

5 жыл бұрын

All I can here is freak show!

@dimitarnikolov2235

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/nXmtxtalaMW_d7A.html

@user-mj4el3vp5w

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry we dance on it,

@user-mj4el3vp5w

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hohprKRvl8a7law.html

@fromsofiafromsofia

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-mj4el3vp5w тия са доста тъпи и схванати агенти

kralj !!!

If you play this backwards you hear the William Tell Overture.

Drummer faces at 4:03

Master Papaz!

The most irrationally intense music on earth.

Tintoria qui

Same guy on Clarinet, Sax and Bass ? WTF?!

He was playing so fast that the simulation lagged

wooooow!!!

Goooooooing up!