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	A v 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