Antologie moravské lidové hudby

Release of this set is scheduled for early 2012. To purchase all four parts of the anthology separately, the albums will be available already this year, the third and fourth CD come out 6th of December, 2011.

The decisive criterion for the selection was mainly the structure of the repertoire – if possible, this anthology preferred local natives without formal musical training who learned to sing and play in local bands, from their co-natives, friends and relatives. Especially in Wallachia, in Kopanice, in Strání, in Horňácko region and in some parts of Dolňácko region (in Uherský Brod, Uherské Hradiště and Strážnice regions) they managed to maintain continuity with song tradition of the last century, somewhere even in the nineteenth century; it’s not only the merit of numerous singing and musical families but also of many collectors of folk songs and local personalities, mainly the enlightened teachers, mayors or priests. Many of the selected bands directly continue in the tradition of their predecessors, others, founded in the postwar euphoria of folklore ensembles, gradually worked out their repertoire by reconstructing of preserved regional music material, others were founded recently in places where there was a break of continuity of folk musical traditions and they reconstruct the songs from fragments.