The latest release in the catalogue of Gega New Music Company is meant to be for those who love to listen to the based on folklore Bulgarian choral art. The album includes the very specific and extremely interesting program of the Academic Folk Choir in the Plovdiv Academy of Music and Dance Art.

`Depth of performance`, `clear sound`, `exquisite sound-making`, `artistic freedom`, `steady intonation` - these are only few of the definitions for the interpretations of the choir written by the critics not only in the Bulgarian, but also in Western-European press. And the Flemish critic Hugo Hogelbard ejaculated: `…impressive and majestic is the conducting of Mrs Spassova… a tiny song she can turn into a great masterpiece.`

Found in 1980 the Academic Choir performed songs based on the folklore art with high requirements of the vocal technique and interpretations. Thus the Choir won recognition in quite a short time. With its performances of songs close in intonation and rhythm to the Bulgarian folklore ones, but dressed with the contemporary means of expression it became the founder of a trend called `New Folklore Wave`.

The choir owes its achievements extremely to the directing of prof. Vasilka Spasova and her team. Mrs Spassova is a conductor equally esteemed in Bulgaria an abroad. Her lectures on the problems of the Bulgarian choir art and arranging of folklore song have been listened to with great interest in a number of prestigious music institutes and universities in Poland, USA, Switzerland, Sweden, etc.

Many a composers have been composing songs specially for the Academic Choir. Some of them are included in this album. Here are the emblematic Mehmetyo, sevda goliama of Ivan Spasov, Pilentse pee of Krasimir Kyurkchijski, Slantse zaide na Nikolai Stoikov, Listni se, goro of Stefan Mutavchiev and many other which have been a standard of high professionalism since they first appeared.