What's Your Favorite World Music ?

[seti]

Lately I have dicovered Fela Kuti, Prince Buster, Lee "Scratch" Perry,

Cheif Osadebe and any African Jazz or dancehall music which is

generally 10-20 minute jams per song.

The world music I have been into for a while is anything on Peter

Gabriel's Real World Music label, Dead Can Dance, Ravi Shankar,

Kama Sutra soudtrack (not the porn lol), Peter Gabriel's Passions or

the soundtrack to the Last Temptation of Christ, and The Creatures -

HAI!.

I'd like some more eastern style percusion driven albums. Who should I investigate?

I am always looking for a new style of music to get into so what do the other WM fans listen to?

[Speedball]

Hey Seti,

There is a line of about 22 cd's out by the maker Putumayo and our favorite is Puerto Rico. We also have Italian Musical Odeyssey, Latino Latino, Music from the Tea Lands. We picked a few of them up in a small import store with things from many different countries, the products are made by individuals and not factory workers.

[jbsl]

I have about 12 cds by Putumayo and they are some of the best sounding cds I have. Go to www.putumayo.com and try the samplers on each cd. Most Barnes and Noble book stores carries a lot of these cds and you can listen some of the cd.

Xman

[Myhamish]

Nice thread, Seti,

I like all kinds of music and am a fan of the

Celtic Rock genre, especially when bagpipes are added to the

tracks. Some groups I enjoy are 'The Porridge Men', 'MacUmba '

(bagpipes with South American drumlines and an interesting lead female

vocalist), and a down home Campbeltown, Scotland folkie pub band named

'The Wee Toon Tellers'.

For 'full blown' pipe bands (excuse the pun),

the 78th Frasers and Simon Fraser University Pipe Bands (both from

Canada) have some excellent CDs out. And Victoria Police

(Australia) do some great stuff.

If one wants to 'wow' someone with a Klipsch

speaker or two, there's a nice compilation CD called 'Piping Up' with

various artists on it. Chris Armstrong (who teaches at the

College of Piping in Glasgow) does a new agey pipe tune called 'Quantum

Leap' with drums and bass that really exercises a good sound

system. Slainte Mhath. Hamish

[boom3]

Uakti, especially "Aguas de Amazonia" with Philip Glass. I have bought about 7 copies of this as gifts.

"Mudanin Kata", David Darling.

"Passages", Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass. Listening to this right now.

"Voices of Forgotten Worlds"

[synthfreek]

You need these:

1) U. Srinivas & Michael Brook-Dream(Real World '95). One of my favorite releases on Real World. Quote on rear "A journey through the darker meditations of Eastern and Western ambient music. Virtuoso Indian madolin player in conversation with Michael Brook, Nigel Kennedy, Caroline Lavelle, Jane Siberry, Sikkil R. Bhaskaran and Nana Vasconcelos." Brook is an unreal experimental guitarist who I've been recommending on the board for years. Both Dream and his album Cobalt Blue on 4AD are GREAT demo discs.

2) Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt-A Meeting At The River(Water Lily Acoustics '93). Cooder discs are notorious for having great sound and this one is no exception. A glance through the liner notes reveal that the entire signal chain for the recording was tube-based. From the mic to the preamp to the vintage tube-based tape recorder. No effects, eq, compression, etc. Cooder plays bottleneck slide and Bhatt plays an instrument called a Mohan Vina which is a kind of self-made lap slide guitar with 12 extra strings added to the side and below the regular strings creating a sitar-like droning effect. Very cool. Get out your incence for this one.

[sputnik]

"Eastern style percussion driven"

You should check out "Moroccan Spirit". I think it might be exactly the sort of music you're looking for. Musicians from all over Morocco, but mostly Berber, recorded over a four or five year period. It's one of my favorites.

[seti]

Right now I am jamming on the first cd in the Bob Marley Songs of

Freedom box set. I have owned it for years but rarely listened to the

first cd. They are very early recordings very raw he must be very young.

Speedball,

I will check those out I know nothing of Italian music and Puerto Rico.

Hmm I dated a Puerto Rican girl once wow talk about passionate and

never wrong as thats were I learned the phrase "your right I'm sorry".

Interesting music made by the artist [H]. I think more good music would

hit the mainstream if it wasn't for the corporate music machine current

mode of operations. There is great music being produced in just about

every state but it is overlooked for flashy crappy music ug don't get

me started.

JBSL,

Alot of the World music I have are early recordings and not so pretty

sounding but they make up for it with soul. Even though Barnes &

Noble is expensive I love shopping there because you can listen to

everything before you buy and learn about new music in the store.

Myhamish,

Have you heard Afroceltsoundsystem? The first cd is a hoot! I used to

bartend at an Irish Bar and I can only now listen to Irish music again

and that was 6 years ago. The Pogues The Chieftens wow. I really like

the uilleann pipes which is a bag pipe downsized so it can be played in

a pub and has an arm pump instead of a breathing to fill the bag. Davey

Spillane is the best uillean pipe player. I agree the pipes *snicker*

have an incredible dynamic range. I'll checkout some of those tunes.

boom3,

I have some old Philip Glass around here on vinyl somewhere. I will

look up those albums thanks. Ravi is just amazing I have seen passages

many times but never bought it. I walked into a record shop Friday and

left a pristine 60's record of Ravi's going to go back and get it.

There was also a bluenote 10inch that I saw for $30 which I should get

and if I don't like offer to a forum member.

synthfreek,

I love the 4AD record label quality recordings for sure. I am out

of incense *snicker* but I will look these up online. Nigel Kennedy is

cool I went to one of his concerts in the Malverns in England and got

invited to a huge party at his house afterwards and it was amazing. I

didn't know you could be punk rock and a violinist until I heard him

and it's really cool to see him do Hendrix live.

Are you familiar with Telemusik by Karlheinz Stockhausen

he was a pioneer of electronic music he started in 1956 but telemusik

was done in 1966. It's more like an electronic symphony sort of

like the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet. It's highly unusual but still

sounds futuristic.

sputnik,

I have always wanted to go to Morocco but I think I'll wait till the

climate and attitude changes. This sounds interesting I will look for

it and it sounds like something Barnes & Noble may have.

I have to ask Tropical Montana? What makes Montana Tropical? I have a

hard enough time getting Palm Trees to grow in Arkansas and we are

subtropical.

Thanks for all the great recommendations I can't wait to hear/find all this new music!

we gonna have a soul shake down party

[ChrisK]

The local NPR radio station here in Los Angeles (KCRW) puts on a "World Music" series at the Hollywood Bowl every Summer. I've been lucky enough to go to many of the shows. Some of my favorites have been Pink Martini, Keali'i Reichel, Ozomatli, Buena Vista Social Club, Zap Mama, Daniela Mercury, and Albita to name a few whose music I've bought after hearing them live.

Chris

[michael hurd]

A good family friend moved here to Canada in the early 70's from Haiti. He and I are both into music, I gave him an audition in my car after putting in a sub and aftermarket clarion head unit. As such, I have been liking the style of Soca, the music is infectious. If I were to listen to any other music, I love bagpipes!