Stanislav Stanchev gained popularity way back, in the 1980s, most of all as frontman of the band Tangra. Over time he grew to be a veritable star as solo performer with an original soundр and each song he released turned into a phenomenon. Lately, he has been treating us to such phenomena every couple of months – some of the songs are new material, others come out as singles from his album Strangers’ Bodies, released after a pause of 17 years. That is so because even three years after it was released, the album still has a singles potential, and Stanley is already looking ahead and can’t wait to release his new songs. “There is no confusion about it, it is more like overlapping of new ideas. With me things never follow a given track, I don’t work with formulas,” Stanley says. “I released several songs which are very different from the songs from the album Strangers’ Bodies. That is the direction my next album is taking – many more electronic sounds, and, of course Stanislav Valchev’s magnificent guitar. There are things that, as time passes, the author or the performer grows bored of. That is what happened to me, I couldn’t wait to release the new things.”

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That Stanley’s projects have been overlapping is clearly evident in the song Stolen Memory, music by Blagoslav Anastasov, known from the Manchester-based indie rock band Hayes & Y. Blagoslav wrote all of the songs in the album Strangers’ Bodies. For the lyrics Stanley turned to Daniel Rashev, and the arrangement is by Blagoslav and Svetlin Kuslev.

“It is one of my favourite songs from the album, I always perform it in a kind of frenzy, I can’t wait to perform it at concerts. I have been releasing songs every couple of months lately, whereas I used to have really big musical pauses lasting years. But then something overcomes me, I sit down and write, evidently I’m in good form.”

Stolen Memory:

With a new video and a media campaign, Stolen Memory is the latest song presented publicly as a single from the album Strangers’ Bodies.

But before Stolen Memory, there were no less than three brand new songs: Electro, Innocent Heart and Love Express. As the title of the first one shows (it is going to give the title of Stanley’s next album), the electronic sound is taking up more and more of Stanley’s music. “I believe it is the 15-20-year-olds that are going to feel it best,” Stanley says and adds: “And I can prove it, from what I saw last summer when I was touring with my band. And it turned out I was right when I saw so many young people in the audience. Which is one of the best things that can happen to me, as an artist.”

Besides the energy surge that is so typical of his music, there are also melodic guitars and retro synthesizers so typical of the 1980s, and so trendy right now.

Stanley released his Love Express a month before his jubilee concert at Hall No. 1 of the National Palace of Culture on 13 October, 2022, with which he celebrated his 40 years on stage. The music of the song is by Stanley, the lyrics by Lyudmila Slaneva and the arrangement by Svetlin Kuslev.

Love Express:

What the other songs from Stanley’s next album Electro will be is something we are going to find out at the end of the year when the new collection is scheduled to be released.

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