"Dyke pole" group, "Otava" group, "Volodar" group, Hurtopravtsi, "Drevo" group. Zberimosja, rode v.2. (Let's gather the family)

This recording is so right, so true and so honest that it can’t but attract your attention. I state that as a person who, as a rule, does not find much time for listening to ethnic music. But this particular disc is characterized by that sort of purity that can be felt even by such average listener as I am. That’s why I strongly recommend everybody without any exception to listen to this dsic. For more attentive listeners I will say that this disc is the sequel of the project, the first addition of which was the album "The Host, Open the Gates!". Apparently some of the best groups of this trend take part in the project, namely Drevo, Otava, Volodar, Dyke Pole, Hurtpravtsi. This recording presents both the specific character of singing of five groups and experimental inter-groups projects. Moreover, if one knows that not only colleagues, but old friends and like-minded people perform here, then he or she will understand that the results exceed a simple sum of components. Still, one should not even understand all that – because one can feel it. Easily. Purely. Confidently. For that, I think, one needn’t even be a Ukrainian, it is quite enough to be simply a human being. An attentive human being. These voices and melodies possess a real magic, which has no bounds either in time or in space.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)