Plamenko and his project Symphology - One of the
greatest composer guitarists in Bulgaria presently
A friend of mine Plamen Panayotov is one of the best
guitarists, I've ever watched live.
He is self-taught musician and is one of the notable guitar
composers of our times (in my view).
As every genious he is not recognized on time and his music is not
well known in Bulgaria. Plamenko , he uses unique tunings not to be find in
musicians official books.
Plamenko's music is highly charged with positivism and goodness as
it also reflects his life as a Christian and his Christian
views.
He tried hard to make living with music and has issued a couple of
music albums which are available for purchase in Amazon (just in
case if you like his works).
Plamenko's living is very interesting and he was actually the first
person, I've met to publicly confess his faith in Christ.
I found it nice to share some of his inspirational and highly
spiritual songs here in hope it will be bring some peace and
spiritual joy to my readers, enjoy ;)
Plamenko - The Wisdom from Abvove
Plamenko - Renewal / Revival
Plamenko - First is Pure
Plamenko's music is very unusual and I believe it would not be an
interet to people, who are after pop culture. Also his music is not
a music one, can listen everyday as it's high music diversity and
complexity of compsings is not easy for to be comprehended by the
unskillful eye, however I'm sure his music can be appreciated well
by professional musicians, spiritual seekers and unique music
connoisseurs.
Plamenko's living is as unsual as his music is, he spend many of
his years playing his guitar and travelling throughout Bulgaria's
montain, waterfall regions and the wildest places in the
country.
On many occasions he has shared with me his stories on how he
lived, almost like a hermit for few weeks in abandoned old houses,
vineyeards, meadows located in the wild.
During his tiny periods of hermit like living, he told me how much
he enjoyed the birds singing, crickets plays at night, just
wandering in the mountain pathways.
The most unique story, I've heard from his mouth is when he lived
in an abandoned house situated in high ridges of Rodopi Mountains,
where he lived only eating some wild blueberrys and other kind of
fruits many of which wild ones located nearby the place.
Such kind of people, are hard to meet in todays crazy life, when
money are considered the highest good and people forgot that the
essence of life is not in eating and drinking as our saviour Jesus
Christ told us.
People like Paco are extremely hard to find today, and most
probably almost impossible to find in the developed Western
Countries.
If you like Plamenko's works and you have the financial wellness to
afford buying his works, support him to continue making wonderful
music by buying some of his albums in Amazon.
Plamenko is currently living and working in Copenhagen Denmark, as
he found it's nearly impossible to earn enough money in a legal way
in Bulgaria to afford buyig a house situated in the mountain.
He is working as a postman, distributing newspapers at night with a
bike in Copenhagen. Last time, I saw him he said he haven't
seriously played his guitar for about a year as he has a lot of
work distributing newspapers and pamphlets as well as he doesn't
feel passion for playing.
This is quite normal, I guess since he couldn't find appreciators
of his music. Plamenko's music is produced without any company
label under by himself, manually copying his music to CDs producing
CD covers etc., and this is quite unique as well for today's world
of mass production.
If you're living in Copenhagen, you can see Plamenko on the streets
and say Hi. He works in city center an unusual just like his
music.
His daily job there consists of standing still for hours, holding a
big Advertising sign of a famous Copenhagen Tatoo Studio ;)