Bandura Ukranian Folk Songs Monitor Records c. 1960 MF395 Shrink EX
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You get the EXACT album in the photos.
Condition: The cover is still in Original Shrink Wrap. The vinyl record is EX.
🎶 Bandura – Ukrainian Folk Songs
Monitor Records MF 395 | ca. late 1950s–early 1960s
A hauntingly beautiful artifact from the golden age of émigré folk preservation, this rare LP captures the soul of Ukraine through the voice of the bandura—a stringed instrument long associated with resistance, memory, and national identity. Issued by Monitor Records, a label renowned for its ethnographic fidelity and diaspora outreach, this recording offers more than music: it’s a sonic bridge between homeland and exile.
From laments to lyrical ballads, each track resonates with the emotional weight of displacement and cultural survival. The sleeve design and production cues suggest a release window between 1958–1962, aligning with Monitor’s peak folk documentation era.
💡 Ideal for collectors of Cold War-era media, Ukrainian diaspora artifacts, and folk revival ephemera. A poignant addition to any archive that values authenticity, cultural memory, and the quiet power of song.
Tracklist:
1 The Bandura Song (Vziav by Ya Banduru) 2 Bargehaulers ( Zibralysia Vsi Burlaky) 3 The Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube (Yikhav Kozak Za Dunai) 4 The Enhancements of Love (V Charakh Kokhannia) 5 The Hoop Broke on a Barrel (Oi, Lupnov Obruch) 6 The Girl Stood in the Doorway (Divcha v Siniakh Stoyalo) 7 Grow Low Periwinkle (Stelysia Barvinku) 8 A Thick Willow Tree Grows in the Garden (Na Horodi Verba Riasna) 9 Who Will Take Me Home? (I Shumyt’ I Hude) 10 Blow Wind, Blow to the Ukraine (Poviy Vitre Na Vkrainu) 11 Don’t Love Two at the Same (Okh, Ta Ne Liuby Dvokh!) 12 The Moon in the Sky (Misiats’ Na Nebi)
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