Traditional Lemko-Ukrainian ballad that has come to be the anthem to commemorate those who fell during the Revolution of Dignity

Oh, a duckling flows across the Tisyna
Duckling flows across the Tisyna.
My mother, please don't scold me so
My mother, please don't scold me so
 
Oh, if you scold me at this dark hour,
If you scold me at this dark hour.
I don't know where I'll die,
I don't know where I'll die.
 
Oh, I'll die in foreign lands
I will die in foreign lands.
Who will dig a grave for me?
Who will dig a grave for me?
 
Oh, strangers will dig my grave,
Strangers will dig my grave
Won't it be a pity, mother?
Won't it be a pity, mother?
 
Oh, my son, how could it not be a pity?
My son, how could it not be a pity?
You were laying on my heart,
You were laying on my heart.
 
Oh, a duckling flows across the Tisyna
a duckling flows on Tisyna.
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Гей, плине кача по Тисині,
Плине кача по Тисині.
Мамко ж моя, не лай мені,
Мамко ж моя, не лай мені.
 
Гей, залаєш ми в злу годину,
Залаєш ми в злу годину.
Сам не знаю де погину,
Сам не знаю де погину.
 
Гей, погину я в чужім краю,
Погину я в чужім краю.
Хто ж ми буде брати яму?
Хто ж ми буде брати яму?
 
Гей, виберут ми чужі люди,
Виберут ми чужі люди.
Ци не жаль ти, мамко, буде?
Ци не жаль ти, мамко, буде?
 
Гей, якби ж мені, синку, не жаль?
Якби ж мені, синку, не жаль?
Ти ж на моїм серцю лежав,
Ти ж на моїм серцю лежав.
 
Гей, плине кача по Тисині,
Плине кача в по Тисині

*Note about interpretation & translation:
I have found versions that use either "плине" for "flow/swim" or  пливе  "float". I chose to emulate Піккардійська Терція (Pikkardiyska Tertsiya)version from Western Ukraine who use  "плине" in the traditional Rusyn dialect manner of expressing the meaning for flowing/floating.

Plyve Kacha (Пливе/Плине кача по тисині)

Inspired by my beautiful Bukovynian ancestors who preserved the original Znamenny chanting style as inherited from Byzantium.
Old Slavonic is the mother of the Eastern Slavic languages.
Agni Parthene - a Greek Orthodox hymn composed by St. Nectarios of Aegina, and translated into Old Church Slavonic.

Agni Parthene - Агни парфене

Down The Aisle Into The Veil

Zyma Romantyka

Between Will & Faith

Luminous Poverty/Mantras

Beyond Word & Discrimination

Afraid To Hit

it was a brief moment in outer space
heard in the distance
beckoning you home
to bathe in rivers
that pass through ghost towns
that float on the edge of time and space

on the precipice of the expanding universe
undecided when to contract

Universal Contract

i dont know where the blood would go
hanging in my place
pacing the dimensional rug
at war with an ugly face

because one eye is bright
and the other is dull
once gets loved in the light
and the other sinks into my skull

if you knew the root of it
maybe it would perish
but the search is useless
cause time is a lie
so call the search off
call it off

you can change sides a thousand times
and the gun will still fire
and the blood will still drip
into your eye
im setting myself on fire
im setting myself, Im setting myself on fire

CLEAR EMPTY MIND!
CLEAR EMPTY MIND!
CLEAR EMPTY MIND!

Clear Empty Mind

oh yes things are shifting rapidly
people are moving on
changing policy
im a nominal figure
in your history
your left hemisphere
measures me
searching for a safe desire
something it needs 
but denies

I don't know what power is
power never comes
its never been my intention
i just need your love

in their dark world
there's no true light
the stars have all been extinguished
the execution is set
if we deny or confess
it will make no difference

keep the vision of me alive
in your loving eyes
and i won't let us fall my sweet
from our paradise

i dont know what power is
power never comes
its never been my intention
i just need your love

I don't know what power is

Old L. Cohen cover from 2008
self-produced, performed by Nastasya E. Yaremczuk

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we put a curse on you
we put a hex on you
as we walk into the ocean to drown.

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Murmuration

I post stuff here that doesn't quite fit with my other project 'Old Girl' https://soundcloud.com/old_girl - which I've all but retired.

this is mainly a suppository for one-offs, improvisations, experiments, old stuff found on hard drives...

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