Крънджилица
First album released as a cassette on label Skupina
https://skupina.bandcamp.com/album/-
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Lucie Páchová travelled to Bulgaria for the first time in the summer of 2011. Using their national census data, she identified some villages near the border with Macedonia and Greece that had a population of zero. Following rarely trodden paths, she hiked for two days to the completely abandoned village of Zanoga. Krandzhilitsa, a neighbouring, half-abandoned village, is where Páchová spent the night. The village consisted of thirty decrepit clay and stone houses, a ruined school, a cultural hall and a church with falling frescoes, and there were around ten inhabitants living there. For a few days, Páchová listened to the stories of elders who described their lives, as their fates became increasingly intertwined with the decay of rural life. She became friends with several of these inhabitants and would visit them again in the autumn of 2014 and spring and autumn of 2021, this time for longer periods of time. Only three of them remain in the village all year round. Increasingly, Páchová became aware of their resilience in the face of abandonment and the relentless passage of time. Because, after all, the valley and the city mean comfort, while the mountains are about determination and resolve