"Bozhychi" folk ensemble, Serhiy Okhrimchuk. Ukrainian Dances. Part 1

This album is the result of creative cooperation of instrumental part of folk ensemble "Bozhychi" and violinist Serhiy Okhrimchuk. "Triple muzikas" or "triple musicians" features melodies from all over Ukraine, representing a wide array of regions. From the very outset, our interest was to absorb the spirit of folk performance, demonstrated in this compact disc and, in particular, the violin, the garmon' (type of accordion) and the tambourine ensemble, which had been widespread in Ukraine since the beginning of the 20^th century. Retaining the core principles of musical performance, inherent to "triple muzikas" (as one folk performer noted, "triple musicians" entails triple music) was possible, primarily due to the active folk expeditionary research carried out by the trio. As in traditional "triplets", every instrument plays its own unique melody, while maintaining and changing it with each performance. Hand-made instruments such as the violin – crafted in the Zhytomyr Polissya after WWII and the garmon' "Vienka", from the beginning of the 20^th century are all tuned to convey the very sounding of "triple muzikas". The melodies of dance which feature in this album were recorded in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions. "Ukrainian Dances. Part 1" also includes a "School of traditional Ukrainian folk dance. Part 1" на отдельно изданном DVD.

information are from the booklet to the CD