This CD represents music folklore from the right bank Kyiv region. Its records were made in villages of Marakiv area (Komarivka, Nizhulovychi, Gruzke, Koguchanka) and Kyiv-Svyatoshuno area (Luka village) which are located between two tributaries of the Dnipro-River; Teteriv and Irpin. Scientists call this land the trasition area since it boarded with two huge habitats - the forest and the forest-steppe ones. In the music folklore we could find traits that was formed under the influence of Polissya, Podillya and Podniprovshchina customs and traditions.
Unlike left bank Kyiv region whose ethnic development suffered from constant interruptions right bank's areas were mastered by our ancestors-farmers since extreme antiquity. Obviously thet was the reason why they preserve in their memory the most ancient folklore's layer - the ritual calendar folklore that has almost died away nowadays.
1 Oh, how it was in the earlier times (carol) 
2 Fly out, dove, fly out. Vesnyanka (spring song)
3 In the crooked dance. Hayivka (may song)
4 The well-tarred felloes. Hayivka (may song)
5 Vesnyanka (a spring song)
6 Oh, at our spring dance. Vesnyanka (a spring song)
7 I will drive the cattle to the valley
8 My beloved is coming across the mountain
9 My husband was beating me
10 Oh, you kitty-cat. Lullaby
11 Oh, two cats
12 Oh, Ivan was bathing. Ivan Kupalo's Day Song
13 Oh, in the forest on the oak-tree
14 In the kitchen-garden a sow was digging
15 Before Peter's Day the night is small
16 Oh, noise, mother, noise
17 Oh, tchoomak, tchoomak. A Tchoomak song
18 Beyond our border
19 And the sun already is over pear-trees. A harvesting song (serfs' song)
20 Oh, don't come, barabash. A game song
21 Oh, there behind the forest
22 Mother, my dove dear
23 Oh, on the blue sea, oh, on the sea blue
24 Now you will sleep in peace, my mother
25 Oh, beyond the orchard there is a beaten road
26 Oh, i will sit down to think, a young woman
27 A wedding ritual
28 Can't you, my mother, come out of the house
29 Oh, an oak another oak is swaying
30 A father-in-low meets his daugher-in-low at the door
31 Oh, i will go to the forest for some firewood
32 Oh, to the street gatherings i would go
33 I will get up on a mount
34 Lully, lully lullaby
35 Oh, lully lull
36 Oh, we are walking, we are strolling
Total time : 74:06
2004 WORLD MUSIC |
