KARPATHIA is a CD of Ukrainian traditional music of the Boykos, Lemkos and Hutsuls, who live in the Carpathian Mountains of Western Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk region).Instead of presenting the popular or typical genres for each group, this CD features the new and unexpected in this music which was born in the mountains and created by people who live a little closer to heaven.
1 Introduction ( instrumental,bag pipe)
BOYKO REGION
2 We brought in the harvest early (harvest song)
3 There are fine herbs on the table (wedding song)
4 Oh, it snowed in the mountains (rhyming song)
5 Oh, in the middle of the village lived a poor widow (winter song)
6 Oh, long, long ago (winter song)
7 When i was young (rhyming song - "kolomyika")
8 Instrumental "kolomyika"
9 Instrumental "Kozak"
10 Instrumental "Polka"
11 Instrumental "kolomyika"
12 Instrumental "kolomyika"
LEMKO REGION
13 I'll give a calf (folk song)
14 Oh, play musicians play (folk song)
15 I'm from 1923... (story)
16 At our neighbor's house (wedding song)
17 Behind our hut (wedding song)
18 We're coming down the mountain (wedding song)
19 In the old days it wasn't like it is now (story) 20 Green kindling (folk song)
21 I'm a young man ( folk song)
22 We didn't come (wedding song)
23 Where the sun rose (folk song)
24 From Krakow they took me as a soldier (soldier's song)
25 I sowed green seeds (folk song)
HUTSUL REGION
26 Fiddle instrumental with rhyming song
27 Jaw harp
28 Where are we going to spend the night (folk song)
29 Floyera and story about the performance (funerary lament)
30 Double flute and story about the performance
31 The biggest honor... (story)
32 On Sunday morning
Total time : 73:54
2003 Atlantic |
