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SONG The song Oh (Little) Wormwood-Wormwood was first recorded by members of the ethno-research project Baba Yelka in the village of Listopadove (Novomirgorod district) in September 2018 from the local folk group Berehynia.
Arrangement — by Max Velíczko, Kropíwnítskyj musician and composer (band Inside The Sound). • VIDEO Alexandr Majorow, Kropíwnítskyj well known photographer: he appears in the frame at the 3rd minute) — / maiorovphoto . Alexandr took part in more than 40 expeditions of the Baba Yelka Project and together with another photographer — Michael Andrews — he co-authored a travelling photo exhibition In Search of Native Song.
In the music video are used footage from the Baba Yelka project expedition to the village of Neczajiwka, Kompaniiwskyj district. There Granny Polya (Polina Grygoriwna Dymczenko, born in 1935), among others, also sang the song Polyniok (Little Wormwood). • The video was shot in the summer of 2019 on the territory of the geological monument of nature: the tract Urochishche Cascades (village Zlínka of Malovyskiwśkyj district) and at the confluence of two rivers — Sugokleja and Sugoklejczík, near the village Neczajiwka (Kompaniiw district).
In the video you can see dozens of plants listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, and medicinal herbs, which Baba Yelka knew, among them wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), oat (Avena sativa), St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum L.), rough bluegrass / rough meadow-grass (Poa trivialis), pheasant's eye (Adonis vernalis), wild garlic (Allium ursinum), hawthorn bushes (Crataegus), steppe cherry (Prúnus fruticósa), tansies (Tanacetum), yellow meadow chamomile (Cota tinctoria), great mullein (Verbascum thapsus), mullein (Verbascum) etc... • YELKA's INFO YELKA [єлька] — such a pseudonym was adopted by ethno-singer Svitlana Bulanova from Kropíwnítskyj in honor of her grandmother: Olena Rybalkina, who was called «Yelka» in the village.
She knew hundreds of folk songs, and also treated people with herbs, raised ten children, experienced the Holodomor… Nevertheless, she started each day with a song and accompanied the sunset with a song.
Each of us has his own «Baba Yelka» — a granny who could not be imagined without a song. They worked with a song, grew with a song, got married and went to the better worlds with a song.... •
