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Simo Lazarov

1948 -

Bulgaria


S.L. Lazar

Simo Leon [Simo] Lazarov (Lazar) (09/03/1948), a Bulgarian composer, performer and propagator of Bulgarian electronic and computer music, born in Sofia. Simo Lazarov is renowed in our musical culture. He was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Bulgaria, both as a composer and as a performer. His long years of unassuming and gifted work have become a part of the musical environment around us. We cannot even suspect how many of the compositions and melodies which sound familiar to us are his work.

Author:

Eddy Schwarz

Lazarov has released 9 LPs and 6 CDs, over 50 soundtracks and over 200 works. He has written 5 books on electronic and computer music.He has been nominated Bulgaria's Musician of 1995 and has been distingnished at several major Europian computer music festivals in Varese, Helsinki, Bratislava, Linz, Tokyo, Oxford and Cambridge.

Source:

http://solbg.tripod.com/s.htm

Holocaust, a Requiem for the fate of the Jews

Period:	Modernism
Composed in:	1995
Musical form:	free
Text/libretto:	Jewish prayers
Duration:	71'28''
In memory of:	the victims of the holocaust in World War II
Label(s):	Gega New GD 104

Holocaust: a requiem for the fate of the Jews contains:

01. Prologue
- - -
02. I. Life
03. II. The black shadow
* III. Holocaust
04. - The hell
05. - The trains
06. - The death camps
07. - The extermination
08. Cremation
* IV. Hopes and destruction
09. - Lord, take our souls into the garden of Eden
10. - Annihilation
* V. Deliverance
11. - Survival
12. - Divine beginning
13. - Hymn to recue
14. VI. Retrospection
* VII. The eternal spirit
15. - Space
16. - The hands of time
17. - Homage
- - -
18. Epilogue

Source:

booklet of cd Gega New GD 104

♫ 01. Prologue
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 02. I. Life
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 03. II. The black shadow
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 04. - The hell
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 05. - The trains
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 06. - The death camps
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 07. - The extermination
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 08. Cremation
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 09. - Lord, take our souls into the garden of Eden
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 10. - Annihilation
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 11. - Survival
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 12. - Divine beginning
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 13. - Hymn to recue
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 14. VI. Retrospection
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 15. - Space
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 16. - The hands of time
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 17. - Homage
© Gega New GD 104

♫ 18. Epilogue
© Gega New GD 104

We are nowiving through the last years of this monstrous century - this century which brought mankind technological progress bordering on science fiction, and tragic catastrophes unprecedented in the entire history of civilisation. To the Jewisch people, it brought the holocaust. The last breath of six million human beings, six million hopes and doubts, six millions talented or just ordinary existences, six millions unique universes, rose to the sky through the furnace chimneys in Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka. Half of an entire people perished...
Electronic music is one of the many discoveries of our technological age. Man's world of sound has been enriched with new, strange and seemingly limitless possibilities. Electronics and human genius combined to discover sounds on a cosmic scale and unexplored possibilities for the human voice. Human feelings and sensations found new means of expression.
One son of his halves and miraculously surviving people is telling us here about its tragic fate by means of his new music. Simo Lazarov is renowed in our musical culture. He was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Bulgaria, both as a composer and as a performer. His long years of unassuming and gifted work have become a part of the musical environment around us. We cannot even suspect how many of the compositions and melodies which sound familiar to us are his work. The fact that Simo Lazarov has turned his attention to this theme means that he has matured into it. Or perhaps it resounded painfully in his soul. The holocaust is a living wound in the heart of every Jew and a living theme in the heart of every artist.

Author:	Eddy Schwarz
Source:	bboklet of cd Gega New GD 104

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