Arkan • Hutsul Warrior Song for Ukraine • f. Nikolaj Tymchak [Otherlands: Ukraine & Czechia]
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- čas přidán 19. 10. 2022
- This recording is the 27th in a project by Casey Driessen titled - OTHERLANDS: A Global Music Exploration.
LOCATION: Myslík, Czechia
DATE: June 26, 2022
CREDITS
Song: Arkan (Traditional Hutsul)
Music Arranged by: Nikolaj, Marian, Martin, Michal, Casey
Sopilka: Nikolaj Tymchak
Voice/dulcimer/horn: Marian Friedl
Bass/audio: Martin Kocián
Drum/nail: Michal Wierzgoń
Fiddle/audio/video : Casey Driessen
Special Thanks: Michal Schmidt, Jiří Pospěch, Lukáš Mrkva, Základní umělecká škola Frenštát pod Radhoštěm
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
On February 24, 2022, Russia started a war with Ukraine. Two weeks earlier, I made my first contact with Marian Friedl, a musician I was hoping to meet in the Czech Republic. After Russia’s invasion, Marian wrote with a beautiful suggestion-inviting Nikolaj Tymchak, a Ukrainian collector and player of traditional flutes to collaborate with us.
Nikolaj is Hutsul, a people from another part of the Carpathians, now mostly within Ukraine’s borders. Marian is a player of traditional flutes from Valach culture in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids, a part of the Carpathian Mountains where the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland meet. Yes, please!
Nikolaj proposed playing “Arkan,” a Hutsul warrior song connected to outlaws, traditionally danced before fights around a fire with their bartka, an axe often associated with shepherds. He even sent a video of his father dancing and singing for us to reference. “Arkan” also held the added significance for Nikolaj in that a friend of his-and fellow sopilka (flute) player named Mysko Adamchak-was currently fighting against the Russians and rescuing fellow Ukrainians. His friend was also playing Arkan on the battlefield to boost morale. We would play Arkan for him, and for Ukraine.
Nikolaj wears his traditional Hutsul clothing. Marian and Martin’s outfits represent their local Valach heritage. I was given a traditional vest to join in spirit. Our multicultural group basically satisfied local Hutsul instrumentation: voice, flute, dulcimer, fiddle, and drum
Roughly translated:
• VERSE 1 - Musicians, play for me, I want to sing; for spring nights, for the eyes of my beloved; for a dove-grey cuckoo, and for this period of life I’m in
• VERSE 2 - I have a hole in my heart; play for me until morning; play the Arkan dance for me; play for my beloved; let this song fly to the Carpathians
If you'd like to read more about our experience making music together, please visit:
www.caseydriessen.com/blog/war...
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To follow along the OTHERLANDS project, please visit:
OTHERLANDS Webpage (www.Otherlands.fm)
Instagram ( / caseydriessen ,
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or this CZcams channel.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
OTHERLANDS: A Global Music Exploration follows GRAMMY-nominated 5-string American fiddler Casey Driessen as he travels to various countries across the globe to meet with local acoustic-based musicians with roots in their own traditions. Musical exchanges and travels are documented via audio, video and photography elements with collected materials released over the course of the project via his website and social media outlets and official musical releases likely to come at the end of travels.
OTHERLANDS is an independently designed and produced project that is self-contained with a small collection of audio and video equipment. All engineering and recording, including any post-production, can be set up, operated, and completed by Casey wherever on the globe he happens to be.
For more information and to follow the project, please visit - www.Otherlands.fm - Hudba
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I have never heard something so extremely rich, mixed, colorful, strangely Latin and at the same time so unmistakably Slavic, with echoes of the Alps, but clearly of the Carpathians area. It is like those regions of the Carpathians, where countries like Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania and even Moldova, mix and lose their name to peacefully mix with each other; a kind of enormous ethnocultural breakwater, where southern Europe collides with the waves and currents coming from northern and eastern Europe to form the most unmistakably European, but at the same time unique and inimitable, ideosyncrasy of such unusual peoples as the Gorals and Hutsuls.
Я ніколи не чув чогось такого надзвичайно багатого, змішаного, колоритного, дивно латинського і водночас такого безпомилково слов’янського з відгомонами Альп, але явно карпатського. Це як ті регіони Карпат, де такі країни, як Польща, Словаччина, Україна, Угорщина, Румунія і навіть Молдова, змішуються і втрачають свою назву, щоб мирно змішатися між усіма ними; свого роду величезний етнокультурний хвилеріз, де південна Європа розбивається об хвилі та течії, що приходять з півночі та сходу Європи, щоб сформувати найбільш безпомилково європейську, але водночас унікальну та неповторну ідеосинкразію людей, таких незвичайних, як Ґорали та гуцули. Nunca había oído algo tan extremadamente rico, mezclado, colorido, extrañamente latino y al mismo tiempo tan inequívocamente eslavo, con ecos de los Alpes, pero claramente de los Cárpatos. Es como esas regiones de los Cárpatos, donde países como Polonia, Eslovaquia, Ucrania, Hungría, Rumania e incluso Moldavia, se mezclan y pierden su nombre para mezclarse pacíficamente entre sí; una especie de enorme rompeolas etnocultural, donde el sur de Europa choca con las olas y corrientes provenientes del norte y del este de Europa para formar la ideosincrasia más inconfundiblemente europea, pero al mismo tiempo única e inimitable, de pueblos tan insólitos como los gorales y los hutsules.
Now we're talking!
Lovely catchy folk tune. Great combination of instruments so nice the way you built it up from slow traditional solo to everyone playing along together at speed. Really felt like the start of a fantastic memorable long evening you dream of: relaxing drinking singing and dancing…bringing everyone in a community together.
Thanks! Hope you check out music from these regions and cultures 🙂Great energy
Yeah!!
Thanks for having a listen!
Love you Casey...such a cool project! hUgz, Lee
Fantastic!
Thanks Rob. Very cool violin & viola bow pulsing accompaniment in these parts.
@@CaseyDriessenMusic Totally. I've only recently become a five-string player-took a while, ha-and I'm still figuring out where all the best shapes live on a C and G string. So those double stops starting around the 3:34 mark are super inspiring!
What's the story behind the bass? Love the color! What kind of wood is that? Martin's arco work is killer. Reminds me of tango bass, that "arastre" and bite of the note transient is (very literally) hard to pull off.
@@RobFlaxMusic The bass is made by our local flute maker Vít Kašpařík here in Czechia, Velké Karlovice. As far as I know, the body was made from one piece of wood by carving it out. It is a really special instrument with kind of really raw bass sound, hard to figure out when amplifying it for live sound :) And Martin is a killer player for sure ;)
mantab beb 😘👍🔥🔥🔥
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