RADOSLAV — KUPALO (live Chervona Ruta '1997)
РАДОСЛАВ — КУПАЛО (наживо Червона Рута '1997)
HD sound • rediscovered & restored by the RUM ©2021
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The song was taken from the private collection of the RUM
Remastered and reassembled by the RUM
The video was renewed by the RUM
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There was and will be staying only one music festival in the history of Ukraine like №1 — the Chervona Ruta fest!

(A name of the Carpathian herb — Rhododéndron myrtifólium, and in the same time of the first Ukrainian-language pop hit known since the 1970s).

This primacy is due to the fact that the fest Chervona Ruta gave birth to and created the modern Ukrainian-language scene in 1989, i.e. two years before the collapse of the USSR and the appearance on the political map of the world of the Independent Ukraine.

The Chervona Ruta was, in fact, the first powerful production centre, school and smithy of a lion's share of Ukrainian performers, a number of whom are still at a high level, and some of them have already acquired the status of a «legend».

It is safe to say that if it were not for the Chervona Ruta, the modern Ukrainian scene might not have emerged at all! Anyway, without the festival this scene would be many times smaller and poorer. In short, it is impossible to overestimate the significance of the Chervona Ruta in principle.

For more than three decades of history of the Chervona Ruta the most significant actions were in 1989, 1995 and 1997 (public performances and shows of this festival take place every two years).

A special place is occupied by the fest of 1997. This was the FIRST world-class show in Ukraine! Whimsical and imaginative stage design, sound quality, light saturation — there has never been a performance of so level in Ukraine before!!

For each contestant was created a special, modern stage image, and by the producer forces of the festival itself were created more than 50 modern phonograms! During their creation, the creators were equal to the best examples of world music and alternative style as Deep Forest, Enigma, Dead Can Dance, Björk, Fluke, The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Massive Attack, and many like.

Unfortunately, the Chervona Ruta festival was not held in esteem among the officials and authorities since its inception. Even the opposite! Very often its contests and shows were on the verge of closing at the last moment before the start! We can say that the festival took place under conditions as if the occupation administration was in power in the country, and not its own officials. Which is generally close to the truth...

So, the Chervona Ruta moved like an icebreaker in the middle of the frozen Arctic Sea: so strong was the resistance to its implementation by anti-Ukrainian factors: that in 1989 — during the Soviet era, that from 1999 — when even those weakened sprouts, as it sounds strange, of the «Ukrainization of Ukraine» began to curl very quickly and totally...

1999 was the year of the full force of the Era of Kuchma — the year of Leonid Kuchma's election for a second presidential term — a time of the complete and irreversible collapse of pro-Ukrainian factors, which still have not been able to return to their level of the early 1990s.

Therefore, it is not surprising why the Chervona Ruta, instead of becoming a kind of Ukrainian analogue of Universal Music or Warner Bros., is now on the margins of mainstream currents. At least two generations have already grown up, which have no idea what kind of festival it was, what was its contribution to the musical culture of Ukraine, and how many dozens, if not hundreds of very wonderful performers it gave birth to!

Here we must take into account the fact that in 1989-1999s there were not any modern electronic media we know now! There were not any YouTube, any Facebook, etc! The internet started to appear only at the end of the 1990s and it was via dial-up! There were only TV channels. Even the first commercial FM stations became to appear only in the middle of the 1990s. Therefore, what seems ordinary today — in the 1990s looked like a TRUE MIRACLE! This Miracle had the name Chervona Ruta fest!

So take RUM's word for it: in those years, every Chervona Ruta festival was a real miracle, which can be compared in spirit with the legendary Woodstock-1969. It was both the peak and the beginning of the decline of the hippie movement.

The same can be said about the Chervona Ruta '1997: it was both the peak and the beginning of decadence, degradation, regress of the Ukrainian modern stage with its subsequent transformation into a boring and tasteless appendix of the Moscow riveting hammer of the pop-shit...

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W ḣistorii Ukrajiny buw i vże nazawżdy si zalyszyt tiko jiden gudeckyj fest pid numerom #1 — to Czerwona Ruta!!

Sia perszisṫ povėzana z tym, że fest Czerwona Ruta, bez zajvoji skromností j porodyw ta sotvoryw suczėsni UkraMowni spivoczi pidmostky w 1989 roci: tobto sze za dva roky do rozpadu SSSRu ta pojavy na politycznij mapi śvitu Nezależnoji Wkrajiny.

Hto b tam szo ne kazaw, ale Czervona Ruta nasprawdi bula perszow potużnow wprovadniow (prodüserskym centrom), szkolow ta kuznew levovoji czėstky suczėsnyh UA vykonawciw, okremi z jikyh i dosi perebuvajut na vysokyh szczablėh vidomosti, a dejaki vże j vstygly otrymaty blymak «Leġenda».

Można na wsi 100 kazaty, że jikby ne Czerwona Ruta — to suczėsna UA scena mogla by si j ne narodyty vzagali! No a jikby si j narodyla raptom, to toczno bula b z Czerwonoji Ruty i w razy meńszow, i biniszow. Slovm, znaczynė Czerwonoji Ruty ne goden pereocinyty ni vzagali, ni w príncípi!

Za ponad 30 lit zistorii Czerwonoji Ruty najvydatniszymy dijstvamy buly v 1989, 1995 i 1997 rokah.
No, w 1989 roci — bo perszyj raz to bulo wzagali!

W 1995 roci — to to bulo ne deś tam, a w Krymu, koly perepudżenomu русскє мірЪу pid samyj nis pidsunuly prosto vybuhovu dobirku suczėsnoji j potużnoji guḋbky Ukrajińskow movow! Krymskym qassabam, prawda, to ne sylno pomiczne stalo, ta vse ż.

Czerwona Ruta vzircia 1997 roku posidaje osoblyve misce!

Se bulo PERSZE vydovyśko naprawdu śvitovogo klasu u vże fajno peremalövanij УСРР!
Hymerna ta vygadlyva konstrukuija sceny, jakisṫ zwuku ta aparatury w cilomu, nasyczenisṫ switlom — sze's takogo tu ne bulo!!

Każdom konkursantu bulo stvoreno osoblyvyj i suczėsnyj scenicznyh óbraz, a prodüserskymy sylamy samogo festu bulo zapysano ponad 50 suczėsnyh fonogram! Pid czės tvorynia syh zapysiw jih tvorci si riwnėly na najlipszi na tu myṫ vzirci World Music ta alternatívy na kształt Deep Forest, Enigma, Dead Can Dance, Björk, Fluke, The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Massive Attack ta bagatioh jeńczyh.

Szkoda, ale festíval Czerwona Ruta tak i ne nabuw poszany w oficijnyh i vladnyh czínnykiw seji derżavy. Naviṫ nawpaky! Duże czėsto konkursy ta dijstva Czerwonoji Ruty opynėly sí na meżi zryvu ta zagrozoju zakrytė bukvalno pered samym poczėtkom! Można zkazaty, że fest vidbuvaw sí za umow, niby w Ukrajini ne svoja vlada, a antí-ukrajińska okkupacijna. Szo, zagalom, ne daleko wtiklo vid prawdy...

Otże, Czerwona Ruta prosuvala sí szo toj krygolam posered zamerzlogo Arktíczngo moria: nastiko sylnyj buw opir jigo vtileniu antí-ukrajińskymy sabotażnykamy i sylamy: szczo w 1989-im roci, tobto sze za isnuvannia SSSRu, szo wże v 1999 — koly zaczėly zgortaty si toti perszi parostky «ukrajinizacii Ukrajiny»: 1999 rik buw rokom rozkvitu doby Kuczmízmu — jigo wdruge pereobraly na prezídenta, i vidtodi русскі мірЪ v sij krajini zaczėw vże ostateczno peremagaty....

Toż ne dywno, czo' Czerwonij Ruti si ne wdalo pererosty w takyj sobi svojeridnyj Wkrajińskyj vidpovidnyk do miżnarodnyh Universal Music czy Warner Bros. — i zaraz cia zabawa perebuvaje na marġínesi i szow-bíznesu vzagali, i medijnomu prostori zokrema.... :(((

A tym czėsom vyroslo szonajmeńsze cilyh dwa pokolinė lüdej, jeki j blyźko sobi ne ujewlėjut, szo tomu za fest, jikyj buw 'go wnesok v suczėsnu muzycznu kulturu, i skikoh dysėtkiw, a jmo' i soteń czudovyh gudciw vin porodyw!

Katia Chilly, U.Lord, Tartak, Tanok Na Majdani Konġo, Faktyczno Sami (zara Qarpa, ale to vże dokorinno jeńczyj sklad gurtu), Dakha-Brakha, Soloma-gurt (Solomija Melnyk — zara uczėsnycia Dakh Daughters), Andrij Pidlużnyj (ex-Niczlava-blues, Niczlava), Olexandr Ponomariow, Rosava, Marija Burmaka, Braty Gadiukiny, Sestryczka Vika, Motor'rolla, Sestry Telniuk, i bagato bagato jeńczyh — to wsio gudci, vidkryti svogo czėsu zagalovi same zawdėky festu Czerwona Ruta!!

Wże malo hto pamnėtaje, że w 1989-1999 rokah ne bulo suczėsnyh elektronnyh medía, ne isnuvalo sze żadnyh YouTubiw, Facebookiw ta Ġooġliw! Same wsemereżża zaczėlo bilsze-meńsze szyryty si lysze naprykińci 1990-h, i to buw sze toj dial-up! Naviṫ perszi komercijni FM-rozgolosśni zaczėly si zjėwlėty tiko z seredyny 1990-h....

Tomu to, szo nyni vydaje si zvycznyhm i legkym — w 1997-im vyglėdalo je Sprawżnė Cudo!
I se Cudo malo nazvu: Festíval Czerwona Ruta!

Toż povirte RUMu na slowo: w ti roky każdyj fest Czerwona Ruta buw vreszynow mrij dlia molodyh gudciw i piśniariw, każdyj htiw na nego obovjezoko za żytė wtrafyty!

A vypusk Czervona Ruta '1997 można poriwnėty za znaczynė hiba z leġendarnym Woodstockom-1969!

I jekszo toj Woodstock buw pikom i vodnoczės poczėtkom zanepadu Doby Hippy, to Czerwona Ruta '1997 — to bula verszyna i poczėtok zanepadu, deġradacii ta rozvorot nezależnogo Wkrajińskogo szow-bíznesu w bik Mackowskoji klepalni qassabo-popsovgo giwna....

Z tego rozvorotu vyborsaty si ne godni j dosi...