This group is already twenty years old. It has been collecting, keeping, presenting to listeners the song traditions of Rivnyanske Polissya for all this time. As a matter of fact, not simply song tradition, but magic-ritual one. And it is no wonder that the group has a very rich material. For example, there are forty tracks at this disc. There are the so called vesnyanky, Easter songs, bushes songs, berries song, petrivka songs, harvesting songs, wedding songs, everyday songs, Christmas carols and New Year songs here. The list is really surprising. But the performance does not yield to it in variety – after all these are rituals, different seasons, different traditional ceremonies. They all are united by one thing – the feeling of native Ukrainian magic, brought to us through the skill of performance. It is very pleasant that the lyrics of all songs performed are published in the booklet and you have the possibility to understand at once what they are singing about in these songs.
Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)
, Ieper, Belgium