Ukranian choral folk music CDs, audio files

Recordings of choral folk music by a group in Ukraine called Drevo. A folkloric revival group, it has the sound Larry Gordon's and Patty Cuyler's Village Harmony and Northern Harmony youth choirs strive for. Since I'm posting links, I'll just link to Village Harmony too while I'm at it. I'm not sure I understand what all the websites are (although they're obviously selling CDs), so I'll just post links now and come back and sort it out later:

The first webpage I found with a description of Drevo while I was surfing around tonight. It has a link to a couple of CDs. I'll just quote:

Drevo brings back to light old traditions of Ukrainian village music , steeped in its own harmonies, scales and techniques.One thousand years ago with the ward of Christianity to Ukraine the culture on these grounds did not begin anew, but its new page was opened. Alongside with the partially kept prior archaic layers and on their basis, the Christianity has formed other original forms of culture, genres and styles.The influence of these processes on Ukrainian village music was especially expressive.

Drevo (founded in Kiev in 1979) has begun the movement for authentic reproduction of old traditional Ukrainian folk music. The art director of Drevo Eugeny Efremov is an ethnomusicologist, the candidate of an art criticism, senior lecturer of National musical aca-demy of Ukraine. The ensemble consists of the young scientists, who collect and investigate Ukrainian village music of different regions of the country for many years. Drevo recovers the material gathered in ethnographic expeditions without additional art processing, keeping its natural, original form.

Origen Music, an indie label from Ukraine. Again, I'll just quote:

Shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union electronic new age music composer, musician, producer and sound engineer Alexsey Zakharenko from Kiev-Ukraine (his new age music and group ORIGEN are featured on this site) started recording the Eastern Orthodox church choral music. Earlier it was impossibly to do in the communist and atheistic Soviet Union. In 1995 he released the CD "All Night Vigil"- traditional church choral music of Kiev Pechersk Monastery. It was the first authentic church music CD in Ukraine. Later Alexsey Zakharenko founded Origen Music - Ukrainian indie label focused on recording of Russian and Eastern Orthodox church choral music, classical, electronic new age music and Ukrainian music.

After listening to it, I'm convinced. For Eastern European folkloric music (and not just the one group Drevo), this looks like the real deal.

Also, this: The first hit in the directory when I search keyword "Drevo" in Google, put up by something called Magnatune: Music downloads & licensing. It has streaming audio of the CD Christian Themes in Ukrainian Folk Songs with an announcer identifying the songs between tracks. But it has more than that. Again, I'll quote. Here's the blurb on Magnatune's gate page:

Listen to over 500 hand-picked complete albums. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. You'll get MP3s & WAVs, and no copy protection (DRM), ever.

A lot of classical, especially early music. Jazz and blues, new age, electronica and other genres I don't even recognize. World music including not only Eastern Europe, dub, Asian, Arab, "funk jazz salsa rock from Argentina." A lot of "long tail" music. They deal directly with the artists. They promise: "No major labels: we have absolutely nothing to do with major labels or the RIAA." Worth finding out more about!