Alexander Stoyanov, on drums, and Vladimir Leviev, on bass, joined Balkandji to work on their debut album. In the spring of 2001, they again participated in national radio contest with the song "Krali Marko", which won first place. The same year, their song "Kam taz zemia" won second place in the "My Reason To Stay in Bulgaria" contest. That autumn, a side-project of the band, which again incorporated folklore elements, won a contest for electronic music. In November Balkandji was joined by the opera singer Inna Zamfirova. Meanwhile, the demo recording of the album Probujdane was completed. Their first live performance soon followed, featuring Spas Dimitrov on guitar, Nikolay Trajkov on drums and Hristo Pashov on bass. Stoyanov and Leviev were students abroad at that time. In 2002 the band decided to record and release the album by themselves, because of the lack of interest from musical labels. Since then Balkadji has staged many live performances, and in 2003 became part of the regular program of certain nightclubs such as O!Shipka. In 2003 the band wrote the song "Oi, mari, Yano", which was included in a compilation produced by the club, O!Shipka, and Toxity Records. At this time the band began working on their second album. In 2004 they released the single "Zvezdica". Balkandji is currently in the process of writing more material for their upcoming album, Zmej. Live performances Balkandji concerts are well attended by people attracted to the band's style and ideas. The band tends to improvise a lot on their old songs, some of them being played quite differently from the original album versions. They also play many unreleased songs from forthcoming albums at their live performances. Barovsky arrest On 22 September 2004 Barovsky was arrested in Greece. Counterfeit foreign money was found in the luggage he was carrying. The band continued their tour, however, using Iavor Pachovski as a temporary replacement keyboardist. Barovsky was held in prison until the trial on 11 January 2006, when he was acquitted. Barovsky returned to the band in early 2006 although he had not played the keyboards for more than a year. Band members Kiril Yanev (Кирил Янев) – vocals, guitar Nikolay Barovsky (Николай Баровски) – keyboards, kaval Alexander Stoyanov (Александър Стоянов) – drums Vladimir Leviev (Владимир Левиев) – bass Spas Dimitrov (Спас Димитров) – acoustic guitar, tambura, vocals Kalin Hristov Katsko (Калин Христов – Кацко) – drums, tǔpan, percussions