Isihia

Исихия / Isihia，典出十四世紀保加利亞第二王國時期興起的東正教靜修派(Исихаст)。21世紀伊始，保加利亞樂隊Isihia偕同Lot Lorien以及馬其頓樂隊Anastasia，掀起了保加利亞年輕一代對巴爾干本地音樂的懷古風潮。這個八人編制的樂隊在配器上堅守全盤本土化的策略，巴爾干風笛 (bagpipes)、保加利亞三弦琴 (gadulka)、大鼓 (tapan)、牧笛 (kaval) 是成局的基本配備。樂曲常以ambient長音鋪底，旋律上以保加利亞東正教圣樂為主，并佐以稍經(jīng)打磨的粗礪保加利亞民樂唱腔，試圖探尋東正教靜修派的純凈保加利亞精神。
 
Isihia (Bulgarian: Исихия, &hesychia&) are a Bulgarian music band founded in 2000, the style of which unites elements of Bulgarian folklore and Hesychast Christian chant of the 14th century to create an atmosphere of Balkan spiritual mysticism. Many of the group's songs cover topics of the medieval history of Bulgaria, mostly the period of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans and the attempts on its repulsion and the early Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, i.e. the 14th-15th century, but also other moments of hardship such as the tragic Battle of Klyuch of 1014.