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In November 2019, Smithsonian Folkways released Martin Koenig’s documentation of Bulgarian folk music and culture as ‘Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World.’ Watch this interview video to hear him discuss the tradition of table songs, his support from Alan Lomax and Margaret Mead, and the sentimentality behind the project’s release. Photographs by Martin Koenig Music Recorded by Martin Koenig Interview and video by Charlie Weber 'Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World' is available as 2xCD Book Set and Digital.