With his new single "Ancient Forest" Grafa sends messages and shares his love for Bulgaria, unleashing all his creative potential and innovative flair. The participation of the world-famous women's choir "The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices" is a huge contribution to the epic sound of the song.
In "Vekovna gora" Vladi Ampov combines irregular rhythm and electronic sounds, as well as samples with traditional instruments - bagpipe, duduk. He wrote the music, lyrics, arrangement and vocal choral lines of the song. He recorded all the guitar and synth parts himself, and the unexpected collaboration with our legendary choir creates a sense of flight, timelessness and beauty.
"I chose to stay here, to create here, to dream here, to create a family here, because I love my country!" says one of the best Bulgarian singers sincerely and adds "I am grateful that I have experienced the talent and professionalism of the conductor Dora Hristova and the Mystery of Bulgarian Voices."
The idea for the visualization of the video and its realization are the director Drago Sholev, who with his inherent professional curiosity has been studying the growing role of artificial intelligence in the creation of video productions for some time. When he heard "Vecovna gora" Sholev immediately understood that the song deserved a video without parallel. Its rhythm, tempo, and structure perfectly fit his idea of creating a visualization using the latest artificial intelligence programs. The Zografik Films team worked for two months and used a total of 10 different types of software - four classic video post-production programs and six AI tools - to transport us to an alternate universe where tradition and the future, the natural and the synthetic, the natural and the supernatural meet. The images of the Count and the Mystery of Bulgarian Voices are also generated by AI, they go beyond the standard frameworks and carry the sense of magic embedded in the foundations of Bulgarian folklore.
The song "Vekovna gora" is the pilot single from Vladi Ampov - Graf's upcoming album of the same name to be released this year. Fans of the singer and author of some of the biggest contemporary hits are eagerly awaiting his new production, which will no doubt quickly reach the platinum status of his previous album, Side Observer (2019).
