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Oi u luzi chervona kalyna
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'Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow' is a Ukrainian patriotic march of the time of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, first published in 1875 by Volodymyr Antonovych and Mykhailo Drahomanov,[https://zaborona.com/vid-hmelnychchyny-do-hlyvnyuka-yak-zminylasya-pisnya-oj-u-luzi-chervona-kalyna-za-czili-epohy-vyzvolnoyi-borotby/ : ][https://violity.com/ua/new/6179-oj-u-luzi-chervona-kalina-storiya-legendarnogo-gimnu-sichovih-strilciv-csho-sogodni-zvuchit-po-novomu-na-ves-svit ", ...". , - ][https://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/viatrovych/6263e438be69a/ History of the song "Red Viburnum" is the history of our people] Written in a modern treatment by the composer Stepan Charnetsky in 1914, in honor and memory of the Sich Riflemen of the First World War, it was later adopted by both the Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian War of Independence and the Second World War-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army. This song is known to have many versions and covers.
The red viburnum of the song ( in Ukrainian)a deciduous shrub that grows four to five metres tallis referenced throughout Ukrainian folklore.
History
soldiers near Ternopil. The song was written in their honor.
Due to the song's association with the Ukrainian people's aspiration for independence, singing of the song was banned during the period in which Ukraine was a Soviet Republic (1919-1991). Nevertheless, it was sung by Ukrainian patriots, with defiance; anyone caught singing it was jailed, beaten, and even exiled.[https://www.ukrainianmuseumlibrary.org/pdf/2018/sower-november-2018-eng.pdf Songs of Ukrainian World War I Soldier], Lubow Wolynetz, "The Sower", November 25, 2018 In September 2014, Russian occupation authorities in Crimea jailed and fined some members and organizers of a wedding party for "promoting Nazi symbols" and "discrediting" the Russian Armed Forces by playing the song.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
, of the Ukrainian band BoomBox.
In March 2022 the song gained international attention when an Instagram video of an a cappella rendition by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band BoomBox singing the first verse of the song[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cae5TydPAxh/ O ou louzi tchervona kalyna] sung by Andriy Khlyvnyuk on his Instagram account. was remixed by different artists around the world. The melody was somewhat changed, literally in the first line of the chorus the last syllable is sung ascending sixth. According to Valentyna Kuzyk, in this variant the energy of the primordial breath breaks out of stable forms and enters a new life space.
BoomBox was touring in the United States when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started on 24 February. In response to the invasion, Khlyvnyuk cut the tour short to return to Ukraine in order to join the armed forces. He recorded the video while wearing army fatigues, standing near Sophia Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, and uploaded it to his Instagram account on 27 February, where it became viral.
of Pink Floyd created an original song around Khlyvnyuk's vocal track of "Oh, the Red Viburnum..."
The first artist to remix Khlyvnyuk's rendition was South African musician The Kiffness in early March. At the end of the same month, Ukrainian ice dancers Oleksandra Nazarova and Maksym Nikitin performed to the song at the 2022 World Figure Skating Championships in protest of the invasion.
In April 2022, Pink Floyd made use of Khlyvnyuk's recording for the vocal track of "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!", a single and a video which the band released in aid of Ukrainian humanitarian relief. In the video, Khlyvnyuk's performance is projected behind the band while they are performing and is partly shown full screen. The song opens with a sample from another recording of "Oh, the Red Viburnum...", by the Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqeFwRhKf4%7C%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80 . - , (G. Veryovka Choir - Oh, red viburnum in the meadow)] on YouTube.
Since then, new versions have appeared on YouTube, even remixes of the original remix.
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