Name: TESTAMENT Part 1 (T.Shevchenko-Andrew1111)
Duration: 57 s
Channel: T.Shevchenko - Andrew 1111.
Description: Translation from Ukrainian of the most famous poem ('Zapovit', 1845) by most prominent Ukrainian poet of all times. Translated and performed by Andrew (Andrew 1111).

TESTAMENT Part 1 (T.Shevchenko-Andrew1111)

Andrew 1111 (Canada) (Andrew Praiseword)

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Translation from Ukrainian of the most famous poem ('Zapovit', 1845) by most prominent Ukrainian poet of all times. Translated and performed by Andrew (Andrew 1111).

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Andrew 1111 (Canada) (Andrew Praiseword)

'...I like the song because it's different, and it doesn't follow any of the same rules, formulas, or molds that most other songs follow'. (From the review).

Andrew (Andrew Praiseword, he has another artist exactly with this name on SoundClick) lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He guesses that his songs are pretty known among the top North American and British rockers. They have reputation of v e r y unusual. ("I don't think I've heard anything like this before"). (Posted in about beginning of 2005, edited on December 5, 2009.) The songs are "dark". Almost all of them. This is natural, not sci-fi darkness. Mostly because of the lyrics, which often rise to the heights of Shakespearean dramatic: "Yes, war is hell, But peace - is "kind of" boring. You doing well, Until you good with gun. All things must pass. There's nothing to be worrying. You pressing hook - They shout, fall, and run..." "Game" ("So Far - So Good") Andrew (Andrew Praiseword) Oct.14, 2004, London (England) / Feb. 7-9, 2005, Toronto (Canada) Copyright (C) Andrew P., 2004-2005. Andrew Praiseword, at last, had written several "not dark" ("light"?) songs. Rock-and-Roll "Come On, Amadeus!" is probably the best of them. Unfortunately it is not recorded yet because of... financial problems. But it's so c-o-o-o-o-o-l !!!!! This is the best song EVER. (Andrew thinks.) (Update of December 5, 2009.)

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Rock

Charts

#12,385 today Peak #146

#2,087 in subgenre Peak #33

Author

T.Shevchenko - Andrew 1111.

Rights

Public Domain. Authors' credits mandatory.

Uploaded

January 08, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 0.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:57

Story behind the song

Most famous Ukrainian poet of all times Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9, 1814 in the serf peasant family. When he was 24 years old his freedom was purchased for money raised from a painting lottery. The first collection of his poems aKobzara (for an ancient Ukrainian guitar-man) was published in 1840. When he was 33, Taras was arrested by the Tsarist Russian police and sentenced to 25 years of military service. After nine years of army he was amnestied when Nicholas I died. He had friends among most prominent Ukrainian and Russian poets, artists and intellectuals. He died on March 10, 1861. He was buried in St. Petersburg (Russia) first, then reburied on Chernecha hill near Kaniv (Ukraine) by the Dniepro (Dnieper) River in correspondence with his poem aTESTAMENTa.

Translated on January 6, 2007 in Toronto (Canada). Recorded under severe technical conditions on Acoustica Mixcraft w/o mouse, volume control, etc. on January 7, 2007. Andrew had to separate the track, because he can 'export' it from his system only with three 1.4MB diskettes.

Lyrics

When I die, let me be buried
buried in a grave
in a middle of a steppe
in my dear Ukraine,
where there're fields without borders,
where Dniepro and steeps
can be seen, where whipping waters
roaring through the hills.

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