But it's not so easy the other way around - you don't see a lot of black musicians saying they play Bulgarian music.

Bulgarian music uses a wide range of instruments.

This is the world hit that introduced many to Bulgarian music.

This group attended festivals of Bulgarian traditional music in different parts of the country.

They freely mix traditional Bulgarian music with hard rock and heavy metal.

"I mean, where else are you going to hear Bulgarian electronic experimental music, unless some character gets on the air and plays it?"

To American ears, the sound of Bulgarian music can be bracing - or shocking.

Yet for all its alien traits, Bulgarian music leaves few listeners unmoved.

Here he acquired a feeling for the harmonic structure of Bulgarian music.

He is currently on a two-year state fee to study Bulgarian traditional music.