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Ivaylo Kraychovsky

From Sofia to Bulgaria
АAlex B, author

24/08/2018
 

Ivaylo Kraychovski is a Bulgarian musician, a bass guitarist in the FSB group, an ideologist and initiator for the creation of the group "Old mates" together with a veteran of the Bulgarian rock Georgi Minchev, as well as the project BG BEND - open format for Bulgarian rock music, various prominent musicians.

Exclusive musician and bass guitarist with their own style and style, preferred by many artists to record their music.

It is also known for its acquaintance with its broad general culture, which is far from exhausted with music, has a remarkable knowledge of history, theology, politics, relation to the current events in Bulgaria and around the world.

Ivailo Krajchowski is involved in major causes related to the musicians' class, to the disadvantaged.

He has been playing violin for five years and is studying a solfeggio. When in 1976 he was a student in the ninth grade of XXI high school in Sofia, he became a member of the group of non-musicians who were not accepted at the Music School and started playing bass guitar.

In this video, since 1998, captured thanks to Angel Andonov's initiative, Ivailo tells about the bass guitar and his musical journey.
 

In 1983 he graduated from the "Pop and Jazz Arts" faculty of the Music Academy in the bass guitar class of Prof. Simeon Venkov. Appears in audition for a bass player in place of Alexander Baharov from the FSB and is accepted into the band. His debut on stage makes a FSB concert at the Academic stadium for 15,000 audiences. Although the other members of the band have defined him as a concert musician, he has also been involved in the recordings of the 1984 FSB VI album. He has also worked actively in the FSB studio as a tuneress and music producer, and in 1993-1995. - at MMD Multimedia and Balkanmuzik, where he takes part in the creation of the albums of a number of Bulgarian pop singers, rock groups and jazz formations.

In 1996, Ivaylo Kraychowski became the music director of Sofia Film Fest. Deputy Chairperson of the Bulgarian Executive Association and member of the Managing Board of BNNAZ - Association of Recording Studios in Bulgaria. Organizer of the Flower for Gosho Memorial Concerts and various rock festivals and scenes. He participated in the New Year's concert on the occasion of the accession of Bulgaria to the EU in 2007 in the expanded with young musicians band "FSB".

He left us suddenly on 21 August 2018 in Sofia (57).


 

Fans of rock music and music in Bulgaria in general on August 22 forgave and sent Ivailo to his last earthly road.

In recent years he had distanced himself from his previous FSB group or his colleagues had distanced themselves. Even now, at the end of his earthly road, this distance was noticed. Only one of the group, Konstantin Tzekov, came to say goodbye to Ivailo.

The tragic occasion brought many people back to previous events and video stories. Last year, 2017, Oct. 7, the group made a concert for 40 years FSB. The performances before him, and the concert itself, are somewhat strange that names of the people connected to this group missing. Nobody and nowhere talks about Pepi Slavov, a drummer and great musician, about Ivaylo Kraychowski - a bass guitarist, too. This seems like some strange group complex, perhaps purely Bulgarian - trying to erase something from history. Then it is usually the opposite - the one who makes such attempts depersonalizes himself.

A site, on this occasion, wrote "Ugly". We will not use that. But it is not really beautiful or worthy ...

They all want to be big, meaningful - then it is incomprehensible why they are diminishing themselves.

There is a lot of rupture in rock history, everyone will think of examples. But people name problems, acknowledge mistakes, pay due attention. Using the Bulgarian language - they manage to separate the chaff from the grain. And they stay big.

Boldness, peculiarities of the national character or complexes associated with lack of freedom over long periods of time? The answer is somewhere out there.

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