The Song of Igor's Campaign - Epic Slavic Music

Music, video and vocals by Farya Faraji, including recordings of traditional East Slavic instruments. Massive thanks to my friends Étienne Nantel for lending his epic presence as our Igor, and Kayvik Roy for lending us his magnificent armour. Please note that this isn&reconstructed historical music of the Kievan Rus&culture--though heavily rooted in that culture&instrumentation, it remains fundamentally modern music with a historical theme. Also note that resources on Old East Slavic pronunciation are difficult to find at best, so take my pronunciation here with a grain of salt. With this one, I wanted to pay homage to the East Slavic medieval culture of the Kievan Rus&one of the cultures I am personally most fascinated by. The text which I sing consists of the opening lines (first and fifth stanzas) of the "The Tale of Igor&Campaign," an epic poem in Old East Slavic, the common ancestor language of Rusyn, Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian, before they diverged into separate languages. The poem recounts the campaign of Igor Svyatoslavich against the Cumans (called Polovtsians in the text). Whilst during the previous century, there was fierce debate over the authenticity of the text, and whether it was a more recent forgery, current scholarly consensus agrees that it is indeed a legitimate medieval text from the late 1100&to 1200&The poem remains to this date the flagship work representative of Old East Slavic literature. The instrumentation is a mix of modern and medieval...