Please, visit the DUOS2022 page for more detailed information about this year long sequence of seven releases
In collaboration with Relative Pitch Records, with thanks
AN DEN MOND
Peter Ablinger / Biliana Voutchkova
Inexhaustible Editions 45, 2021, CD/LP, digital release
"An den Mond is a great example of sonic unbalancing and audio unease in
modern classical form - with both pieces having their standalone worth,
but together they make for a most compelling and affecting release."
Roger Batty/Musique Machine
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SPOKEN/UNSPOKEN
Jane in Ether
Miako Klein - recorders, Magda Mayas - piano, Biliana Voutchkova - violin, voice
Confront recordings/core series 22, 2021, CD, digital release
"..a poetic sound universe that transcends the act of collective improvisation." JM Van Schouwburg
"...beautiful and uncanny, and you should hear it as soon as you can." Steve Smith
"JIE's music has something of the quality of undiffused light, a clarity made all the more luminous
and transparent by a true grounding in silence from which sounds emanate/resonate. spare sentences
where light slips through. largely quiet conversations in a multiplicity of languages spoken as if
sharing the same root. roots of a tree displayed in a white gallery, in a Japanese garden..." David Sylvian
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SEEDS OF SONGS
Biliana Voutchkova / violin, voice, bells, objects, field recordings and resonance
Takuroku TR139, 2021 digital release
"...rich and imaginative sonic vision, where spontaneous and intuitive sounds and their resonant
qualities in time and space are means to reach deeper wisdom and sensitivity,
of ourselves – bodies and souls – as well as of the world around us."
Eyal Hareuveni/Salt Peanuts
"...coherence arises from how Voutchkova arranges these sounds upon time,
threading them together with filmmaker’s sense of rhythm and narrative..."
Jack Chuter/ATTN Magazine, UK
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ERNSTALBRECHT STIEBLER / FÜR BILIANA
Biliana Voutchkova, violin Nurit Stark, viola Michael rauter, cello
Another Timbre, 2020 CD, digital
Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical, June 2020
"...All are superb, extremely patient and thoughtful deliberations
on tone and duration, entirely enveloping." Brian Olewnick
"What a wonderful release. Spacious, deep, incremental, and solitary." Nick Ostrum
"...it seems to me your violin breathes slowly to write l-i-f-e - it is courage and feeling coming from within."
Thomas Millroth
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WHITE BRICKS AND THE WOODEN MUTES
Biliana Voutchkova, violin Ernesto Rodrigues, viola Rodrigo Pinheiro, piano
Creative Sources, 2019 digital release
"...made in the spirit of liberated chamber music, after all, reaching with their supernatural
tentacles to almost every corner of contemporary music..."
Andzej Nowak/Spontaneous Music Tribune, Poland
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BLURRED MUSIC
Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice Michael Thieke, clarinet
Elsewhere, 2018 Triple CD, HD FLAC, digital
Record of the year 2018 in the reader's poll of Free Jazz Blog
"...Some of these passages have a remarkable, haunted quality, as if the music
is staring at itself in a mirror..." Clive Bell, The Wire Magazine
"The duo slowly yet consistently shifts through many different layers, melodic and abstract fragments are in constant motion, making the results both fascinating and unpredictable." B. Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
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FROST BURNING
Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice, Antonis Anissegos, piano
Alexander Frangenheim, bass
FMR Records, 2018 CD
"...The Forestry Commission produce such a rich blanket of sound that there’s not
a “dead” moment on the whole record...", Ed Pinsent, the Sound Projector
"...art is an exercise in mastery and distance from it. That prevails in this trio..."
Thomas Millroth, Orkester Journalen
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- MODUS OF RAW
- Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice
- Evil Rabbit Records, 2016 CD, digital
- “…her solo record is a sensation.…glimmering performance, one of the most personal and beautiful albums
- i have heard in a very long time. a solo performance carried by necessity. this will be a classic album… "
- Thomas Millroth/Orkesterjournalen, Sweden
- “…And Jesus, this one goes directly to your soul!…The timbres, sound and colours
she creates on her violin are of a baffling beauty!” - Dolf Mulder/Vital weekly, Netherlands
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THE ARCHAIC PRESENT
Biliana Voutchkova, violin Vardan Ovsepian, piano
on iTunes, 2018 digital release
Nine fragments played from the heart and head, perhaps slightly before planned
live performances. 43 minutes of musical adventure, during which improvised motifs
will be interwoven into sensual, intimate chamber music.
Andzej Nowak/Spontaneous Music Tribune, Poland
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THE AFTERLIFE OF TREES
Biliana Voutchkova, violin Ernesto Rodrigues, viola
Guilherme Rodrigues, cello Magda Mayas, piano
Creative Sources, 2017 CD, digital
We are just the beginning of March, and there is already music with us, which will surely
cover this year's list of the best albums in our favorite category of free improvisation.
....An amazing chamber that came out of the Philharmonia and forgot the way back.
....Close to perfection!
Andzej Nowak/Spontaneous Music Tribune, Poland
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AS FOUND
Biliana voutchkova, violin Michael Thieke, clarinet
Roy Carroll, electro-acoustic media
Sound Anatomy, 2017 CD, digital
"... kinetic electro-acoustic pendulum, moving between tactile, detailed acoustic ideas and their distant,
processed abstraction, between reserved and discrete sounds and sudden, rough eruptions..."
Eyal Hareuveni/Salt Peanuts, Norway
"...a mental / musical desire to build space without direct boundaries... when I hear this, I learn
to spell b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l in a new way." Thomas Millroth/Orkesterjournalen, Sweden
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77 KIDS
Ernesto Rodrigues, viola Biliana Voutchkova, violin
Micha Rabuske, flutes & sax
Creative Sources, 2015 CD, digital
" ...a unique timbral universe full of nuance and subtly..." SquidCo, USA
"Sensual improvisation completely in the climates of the spontaneous edition of the Spontaneous Music
Ensemble (and on these pages it's an unique compliment!)... Beautiful symphony of abandonment."
Andzej Nowak/Spontaneous Music Tribune, Poland
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ALREADY THERE
Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice Michael Thieke, clarinet
Flexion Records, 2013 CD, limited edition, digital
" A very subdued, enchanting duo...
Great combination of the warm and the itchy - really strong, don't miss it."
Brian Olewnick/Just Outside, UK
"...There is a thread to be caught through deep listening, and fine sonic mimicry between
the instruments. Asceticism that makes sense."
François Couture, Journal d'écoute / Listening Diary, Canada
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