Volodymyr Verminsky. Ukrajins'ki zastol'ni pisni

The title of the album, as far as you understand, fully corresponds to the content. But I must say that they say nothing about a feast which turns into an orgy, noisy and troublesome. These songs are meant for slow and bonhomous parties with long quiet talks and reminiscences which end not with cruel fights, but with a dance, for example, with a waltz – one, two, three... Practically the whole album is sustained in the rhythm which is not urged on by anything. It relaxes. Then one can take out photos, uncork another bottle of wine and propose a toast to those who are present and not only to them. Or one may just sit and look at friends, relatives, children – they grow too quickly – and to understand in the atmosphere of that tranquillity that everything is going well. There’s no sense to hurry anywhere and to overstrain yourself. As everything you need is here, you should only appreciate it. Such songs are collected at this album. By the way, they are all folk songs, there’s no bard songs here. It is very characteristic, isn’t it?