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Pradedushka In my boyhood I found the tape at my grandparents’ apartment. This was the recording of the speech of my grandfather’s father Mikhail Fyodorovich Konzhiev, the peasant and the hunter. He lived in the village Korchagino nearby the village Karshevo, Pudozhsky district, Karelia. On the tape I found several poems by Mikhail Fyodorovich, recorded by my grandfather around forty years ago. Except for creating poems, Mikhail Fyodorovich was the actor of local Public Theater in Pudozh. The first poem is about the village. The narrator describes how he comes back from the city to his village where he used to live many years ago. The village disappeared and the narrator starts sharing his memories about the life of the village in old days. The second poem is about the hunt. The narrator bids a farewell to the forest and hunting which was destiny for his whole life. NB: Year 2010 me and my friends went hiking to the mountains of Kandalaksha Gulf of the White Sea . I recorded on tape the sounds of that trip and the improvisations that we made there. Those sounds can be heard on the background of this recording. Side A: Село (The Village) Side B: Лес (The Forest) Poems by Mikhail Fyodorovich Konzhiev Recorded by Nikolay Mikhailovich Konzhiev Mastered and mixed by Sashash Ulz in October 2013 Text by Sashash Ulz dvazd.tumblr.com dvazagorodnyhdoma.bandcamp.com