The Last Kobzari.

Take a step through the curtain of ages, and discover: how they thought, how they acted, and for what purpose they lay down their lives. They were called “God's sages”. Kobzari - wan­dering folk bards and court musicians. Churylo, the first kobzar whose name is docu­mented in the chronicles of 1498, was a court musician of the Polish King Sigmund the First. The duma (pronounced dooma) represents the highest form of musical recitative, an unique phenomenon of Slavic folklore. The kobzar art, whose roots date back thou­sands of years to the Kyivan Rus is perhaps the most colorful, emotional and intricate facet of Ukrainian traditional culture.

The information is taken from the booklet to the compact disc.