Olexander Bystrushkin. Tvoyi syny, Ukraino, tviy bil‘, tvoya slava. 3CD Set. /digi-pack/. (Your Sons, Ukraine, Your Pain, Your Glory)

In this project, the famous theater and cinema actor, the poet Olexander Bystrushkin has combined three prominent figures of the Ukrainian cultural space – Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stus. The format of the project is not that widespread – a literary and music composition. Actually, with its first part – "Monologue of Loneliness" as a separate release – our visitors have already been familiar. Let us only mention that due to such format – and, sure, due to Olexander Bystrushkin's skills of reading – the pieces represented here are revealed deeply, transparently. The more so what these texts are not among those that can be read in the "diagonal" way...

And below – several quotations from the release's polygraphy:

"The poet Shevchenko conducted the most painful dialog with himself. With his thoughts... The twenty-five year old lad directed his thoughts, emotions to Ukraine, where he had not been for ten years then. And with those thoughts he seemed to plunge into the world of memories, thoughts, experience that he left in Ukraine..." Mykola Zhulynsky

"...Franko has a beautiful piece, the lyric drama "Withered Leaves". These are such light, tender poems with such a wide range of feeling and understanding of the human soul that, when reading them, you do not know who to prefer: either the poet of the struggle or the lyrical poet, the singer of love and emotions..." Borys Oliynyk

"..."Letters to the Son"... is a suggestion for changes for everyone inside. Because neither Ukraine, nor the world ever jump over, we with you never jump over either. And Vasyl Stus was convinced that if one trains well, if one tempers one's spirit well, not a single abyss will be insurmountable." Dmytro Stus