Космацькі музики. Этническая музыка Украины.

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The so-called Romanian origin of "hutsul" is just one possible, but very unlikely explanation, If the Ukrainian hutsuls were so Romanian they would be all speaking Romanian language and be Roman Catholic - which has never been the case. There is certainly some influence from Romania, but only in the Bukovina region, in things like ethnic dress and colors, but it would be ridiculous for a Romanian person to imply that hutuls came from Romania! Hutsul name has also a very and only really possible origin in Ukrainian and Slavic culture not in Romanian. I want to remind our Romanian "expert" that it is not "hutsul" but "gutsul" the way it is written. So, was if it came from Romanian, Ukrainian word would have been written with an "h" and not "g". I would also like to remind our friend, that even today, there are numerous villages in Romania, where people still speak the hutsul Ukrainian dialect. Why? Because those territories once belonged to Slavic speakers, and during the 20th century became part of Romania through occupation. Romania is a wonderful country and Romanians are wonderful people, but they have nothing to do with the Ukrainian hutsuls. The Romanian friend does not even say if he enjoyed the hutsul CD. Cheers!

The name Hutsul comes from the Romanian noun Hots, which means outlow, or Haidouk. Mihail Eminescu, one of the great estern-european romantics, said that the hutsuls are dacians which addopted a slavic dialect, and Miklosch, a world-faimous specialist in ethnography, told that the hutsuls have a evident Romanian character in all their culture. The music from kosmaki, the romanian dances like Arkan, Kolomeika, the Doinas are as Romanian as the music from the village near Bucharest, with the same Tambal, and the same melodic lines, and that of Maramures, the ''Toscany'' of the Romanian literary language, as Nicolae Iorga said. I think the Kosmaki musicians should come to Romania, to give concerts, because there music is one of the oldest and purest forms of romanian music that exist, as pure as the folklore of Valachia, near the Danube.

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This is a wonderful CD of traditional Hutsul music performed by a group of truly outstanding musicians. The instrumental solos and duets are particularly beautiful and interesting. It's nice to have the notes in English as well as Ukrainian. Overall a great CD !