They were later joined by Angela Rodel (vocals and tambura), adoctoral student in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was in Bulgaria conducting dissertation field research on Bulgarian vocal music. Fellow writer EmanuilA. Vidinski (percussion) also joined the group; in 2006, Ivan Vulev (bass) and Grisha Manikatov (drums) came on board, thus completingGologan’s current line-up

In addition to using modern instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass,and drum set, Gologan also uses traditional Bulgarian folk instruments such askaval (wooden end-blown flute), tambura (long-necked plucked lute), dvoyanka(wooden fipple flute with two chambers), and tarambuka (hand drum). Theiraim in mixing these ancient and modern sounds is not simply to provokelisteners by the juxtaposition of these traditional instruments in an atypicalsonic environment, but to create a true synthesis between methods of soundsproduction from different historical eras.