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Chalga

In my opinion, chalga is dying away. I would visually define it as a festering appendage, which you cut or it withers with time just like appendicitis. When you ignore it, it does not sore and you live with it. The chalga is clearing the spiritual dirt not only of the 22 years of transition but of times long before that period like the appendage, which clears the body of the dirt. The spiritual destruction of Bulgarians began as early as the five centuries of Ottoman rule. But even they were unable to defeat the powerful spirit of the people. After this period, there were some years of recovery, but a new decline started then, which lasted until the Bulgarians were completely suppressed. They became ideal for the development of something else, when they were no longer interested in anything else except in eating, sleeping, easing the nature. For many years, we were living in a "dead zone." And then, the lowest passions of Bulgarians shot up. This is part of the history of music too. The primitive man discovered the labour tool and he began slaughtering animals to eat, putting skin on to cover himself but it was not enough. He started playing or singing to ease himself of the physical energy after seeing that other animals were doing it. This is how the first reproduction of sounds of nature began. Primitive rhythms are what affect people a lot - African, Indian, Gypsy and Arabic, in which the very rhythm has an impact on the first chakra of the human being. This is the sexual energy. This rhythm is used in many genres of music from different countries - Asian, African music, in the gypsy belly dancing, in the Greek tsifteteli and others. Lower social strata use this music to free from the energy and it immediately triggers the energy in the first chakra. This grows into sexual desire, propagation, continuation of the family, etc. It's in the chalga.

So, after the Ottoman rule in Bulgaria, there was a calm period, which was the time of folk music. It involved sounds of Orpheus, cosmic sounds that have nothing to do with the Anatolian rhythms. Then we had the old urban music and the socialist music was next. We were not the only country where the music had to be composed in a certain form.

While in Greece, the genius Mikis Theodorakis, whom I respect, made the music to be accepted by the people, precisely because he is a genius. It is an ancient music and there is a light Asian element in the rhythm. Then, he added the communist text. He made a nice product in this way, imposing it for many years. The other genre is Asian tsifteteli and popular music. Greeks are nationalists, they listen to their music and this is not by chance. Theodorakis and Manos Louizos were commissioned to compose it in order to isolate all foreign influences and to keep it in history as the Greek music. When you listen to Zorba the Greek, you immediately make an association with the Acropolis, Greece, and the sea.

This is not the case with Bulgarians. They used the Russian school of marching music and did nothing then. The only exception is Pancho Vladigerov, but he is a cosmic composer and a German graduate. He used folk motifs to indicate his nationality. Otherwise, he is a world composer and has no analogue in Bulgaria. So, there was nothing for the table and we returned to the primitive rhythms. But the good thing is that this period is over. It will take several years to clear it completely.

But intellectual famine does not affect just Bulgaria. You cannot gratify only the needs of your body. People started realizing that they are intellectually famine. And they started rousing themselves in order to provide this type of food.

Social networks

This is our present and future - the way in which you can communicate with anyone in seconds, without restrictions of time and space. For me, social networking is a very big discovery. I'm a big fan of Mark Zuckerberg, who has actually made my dream come true - to communicate quickly with thousands of people.

I have been a Facebook user for four years now. Twitter is not interested to me for the time being. I have some friends, who just follow what I do and other active friends with whom I communicate on daily basis. Facebook helped me. I opened myself somehow. I found my field of expression for my jewels, music and writing. I post my staff, get ratings and criticism and it is not necessary to publish something on paper or on other material. In practice, it is like looking at yourself in a mirror. Sometimes I even share my moods there. At first, I took things to heart but then I looked in the eyes of others and realized that every user is there to have fun and to share what they would not share with anyone live.