Píseň země (The Song of Earth) is a joint musical project of the folklorist and multi-instrumentalist Marian Friedl and the sought-after traditional folklore ensembles RukyNaDudy and Grunik. Martin Friedl, the mastermind behind the album and its main initiator, has designed it to narrate the story and memories of a region in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids. It is the story of a landscape that was once covered with dense virgin forest and then gradually settled and cultivated by Moravian peasants and Carpathian shepherds who gave rise to a specific culture there, until they left the region again and the land was reforested. The album was recorded within three days deep in the mountains, in places where its music originated and where all participating musicians and specialists gathered not only to play and sing the songs but to relive their authentic charm and give us a taste of their archaic forms.