Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World

Under the musical direction of Yevhen Yefremov, an ethnomusicologist and singer whose field expeditions into Kyivan Polissia (“the Chornobyl Zone”) began in the 1970s and have continued to the present day, Ensemble Hilka presents the sketch of a ritual year as a song cycle that may have been performed in a typical Polissian village for centuries leading up to the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

Track Listing

101	Oi pan khaziaïn, chy ie ty vdoma? (Winter Song for the Master of the House) Ensemble Hilka	03:04
102	Oi na richtsi, na Iordani (Church Carol) Ensemble Hilka	01:43
103	Oi dai Bozhe vesnu pochat’ (Spring Calling Song) Ensemble Hilka	00:47
104	Strila (Spring Ritual Song) Ensemble Hilka	02:58
105	Vasyl’, Vasyl’ (Spring Song) Ensemble Hilka	03:04
106	Kalyna-malyna nad iarom stoiala (Lyrical Song) Ensemble Hilka	04:34
107	Oi po horke, po krutoi (Soldier’s Song) Ensemble Hilka	02:48
108	Provedu ia rusalochky (Early Summer Song) Ensemble Hilka	01:15
109	Nasha khata na pomosti (Lyrical Song) Ensemble Hilka	03:12
110	Ne kuî, ne kuî, da zezul’ko rebaia (Solo Song) Ensemble Hilka	02:22
111	Kalyna-malyna luhovaia (Solo Song) Ensemble Hilka	02:25
112	D’oi ty bereza tonkaia, kudravaia (Summer Field Song) Ensemble Hilka	02:29
113	Av chuzhoho sokola (Harvest Song) Ensemble Hilka	00:52
114	Oi z-za dnoï horki... (Lyrical Song) Ensemble Hilka	03:18
115	Da kosyv kosar (Salt Trader’s Song) Ensemble Hilka	04:30
116	Rozpletala mene diadina (Wedding Song) Ensemble Hilka	00:45
117	Oi shcho my skhotily (Wedding Song) Ensemble Hilka	00:44
118	Kotu, kotu, kotochku (Lullaby) Ensemble Hilka	01:00
119	Oi pan khaziaïn… (Winter Song) - Reprise Ensemble Hilka	00:48