The release of “Carpathian Album” and the tour of the “Orchestra of St. Nickolas” for its promotion are organized by the agency ArtPole
with the support of the Polish Institute in Kyiv.

07–09.03.2008
“Orchestra of St. Nickolas” (Poland) in the frameworks of a promo tour of “Carpathian Album” in Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsya, Kyiv

The “Carpathian Album” was recorded at the Sheshory Festival during three years – from 2005 till 2007. It features various interpretations of the Carpathian music played by three Polish and three Ukrainian bands. The Tafiychuks who live at the Buknovetsky Pass in the Carpathian heights play this music in the manner it was played hundreds of years ago. The band of Joanna Slovinska playes it extremely energetically, and Joanna manages to sing while playing the violin. A Lviv band Budron performs the Carpathian songs very accurately and politely so as the Lviv musician are expected to do that. The Polish band Transkapela pays a lot of attention to the piercing Klezmer tunes, which originate from the Carpathians too. Buttya band offers its own version of kolomyiki-songs though it usually performs music from the Central Ukraine.

That fact that the "Orchestra of St. Nickolas" took part in the “Carpathian Album” is not accidental because the musicians’ interest to the folk tunes started just from the Ukrainian Carpathians. They have already released four albums with the Lemk and Hutsul songs and also have developed a joint project with Verkhovyna choir Cheremosh. Still they play the Carpathian music not necessarily using the Carpathian instruments and it makes a specific avant-garde version of it.