"Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" () is a
Bulgarian folk song from the central
Rhodope Mountains
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about
Delyo, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The song is most famously sung by
Valya Balkanska, a 1970 recording of which was included on the
Golden Record carried on board the ''
Voyager 1
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'' and ''
Voyager 2
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'' probes.
Other versions
The first versions of the song were recorded by Georgi Chilingirov and Nadezhda Hvoyneva. Recordings of Valya Balkanska singing it were first made by the American scholar of Bulgarian folklore Martin Koenig in the late 1960s, along with other original Bulgarian folk songs.
An instrumental arrangement appears on
Wendy Carlos' album ''
Beauty in the Beast
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'' as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of
Bulgarian bagpipes.
Lyrics
Sources
Bulgarian folk songs
Contents of the Voyager Golden Record
Songs about military officers
Cultural depictions of Bulgarian people
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