Orchestra Kristal (Bulgarian: оркестър Кристал) are a Bulgarian pop-folk or chalga band from Yambol. It is one of two bands, the other being the similarly named Orchestra Kristali from Mihailovgrad, symbolizing the pop-folk genre in Bulgaria.Donna Anne Buchanan Balkan Popular Culture and the Ottoman Ecumene: Music, Image, and Regional Political Discourse (Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities) 2007 "1992-93, the genre referred to now (2005) as pop-folk or chalga by the Bulgarian public lacked a single label. A few friends in Sofia initially termed it kristal in relation to two popular bands: Orchestra Kristal, from Yambol, and Orchestra Kristali, based in Montana (formerly the city of Mihailovgrad). Orchestra Kristal' s director, Krasimir Hristov, produced every aspect of the band's recordings in his own studio, which may also account for how its name came to signify the genre (Dimov 1995 : 16). These two bands helped inspire the formation of myriad other groups whose recordings, like those of Kristal and Kristali themselves, incline toward a regionally amalgamated sound, thus defying easy categorization."

Discography

Studio albums

Bulgarian albums

Vǎrnete se, bǎlgari (1991) Robinja sǎm tvoja (1993) Mili moj (1994) Toni Dačeva i duet Šans (1995) Toni Dačeva i Mustafa Čaušev (1995) Kralica sǎm az (1996) Vsičko e ljubov (1998) Edna celuvka (1999) V novija vek (1999) Magija (2001) Na trapeza s ork. Kristal (2001) Kjučeci (2002) Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 2 (2002) Balkanika (2003) Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 3 (2003) Romski biseri (2004) Tik Tak (2004) Čat-čat (2004) Super kjučeci (2005) Hit kjučeci (2006)

Turkish Albums

Bizim İkimiz Esmeriz (2001) Reyhan ve Ork. Kristal (2002) Biz Şekeriz (2003) Tatlı Kız (2004) Kaderim (2005) Al Beni (2006)

Compilations

Hitovete na Kristal (1997) Zlatnite Hitove na ork. Kristal (2006)

Video albums

Ork. Kristal (1991) Robinya sum tvoya (1992) Mili Moi (1993) Kristal i Priyateli (1995) Vsichko e lyubov (1998) Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 2 (2003) Biz şekeriz (2003) Na trapeza s ork. Kristal 3 (2003)

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