http://www.badongo.net/file/1534209

I was going to up these for the 'war' thread, but I forgot. Seems a good opportunity to do so now. Two Laibach songs off Nato - live occupied Europe.

Nice, thank you glice!

Well, thats different for this thread.

I'm sort of bored with Laibach, but those are nice Glice. Nice, Glice.

eat it.

Here is an incredile resource for sounds from everywhere, thanks to the worlds greatest shortwave station.

http://www.cbc.ca/globalvillage/#

Which should I upload?

Middle Eastern or Brazilian??

I was gonna do some Munir Bashir if there hasn't been any already, so I should go Brazilian (as it were).

You stole my dilemma.

I'll do the Brazilian, and you go with Bashir.

Done and done. I've had a few dodgy Arabic tapes in the past, and Munir Bashir appears on a few. Sadly, I can't transfer a lot of them. Also sadly, my travelling friend are currently crap at sending me market tapes and keep sending me appaling 'world music' CDs, which are shit. Although I'll try and up Benidrums if I remember at some point (percussion from Ibiza, I believe).

Anyway, from my hard drive - http://www.badongo.com/file/1653862

I see you have a traveling friend too, lucky to have one. A guy I work with does extensive traveling throughout Africa and has given me some oddities, but a lot of them are on tape too, I also have no way of converting them either.

Alright, nothing overy spectacular about this one, but its nice. And its making me feel a bit better.

Trio Mocoto - Vai Levando
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2CB8BC1D4BB08360

Now, there is always more where that came from!

By the way, this Bashir track is super! Much better than what I've uploaded.

Why oh why do I not own some of this?

Yeah... a few years ago, when me and my mates all left college, periodically a few of them would do the travelling thing before Uni. Being cheap bastards, they'd pick up a handful of whichever tapes looked interesting and bring them back for me. Some of them were brilliant. One in particular, this Arabic lady singing acapella... incredible. No idea who she is, because the writing's all in Arabic (obviously). Also, I used to live with a Chinese lady. Her parents sent her a few tapes to 'remind her of home'. She, being a lot cooler than me, thought it was complete bollocks, so I ended up with a few utterly brilliant Chinese court music (probably the equivalent of Vivaldi or somesuch) tapes. These days though, my travelling friends are all a bit more sensible, or going to Australia, so they bring back either touristy dross or utter cack. Often both at once. Personally, I have absolutely no interest in travelling, except I would love to be an Alan Lomax type figure and spend 6 months in those areas of West Africa that don't even have tape recorders. There was a show on the radio earlier this year of Mauretanian [?] music. It was incredible, but there's no way of getting the recordings, because there aren't any. Someone, somewhere has a load of Kenyan Soukous, and I want it. I want all of it.

He's probably the easiest Oud player to get hold of as well. Iraqi fella. Unless perhaps Americans don't import Iraqi music, but I find that unlikely.

Crazy! The friend I speak of is Maurtanian (I believe this what you meant). Though he has played/given me some less than impressive r&b and funk from Mauritania for me, I have a CD of some this that I'm totally going to upload. I've just read e-mail from him, he is in Egypt at the present time.

I work in the hospitals Department of Epidemiology, so we often have visitors from Africa (most obviously) bringing their cultural strangeness to Nebraska.

You strike me as the type who would enjoy traveling to remote parts of the world.

Glice?

Myesss?


I'm not interested in travelling per se... I'm essentially a miserable bastard who likes to stay indoors or drink. I do like the idea of going out to Tuva or the aforementioned Mauritania, but I don't enjoy sightseeing. In Russia it was quite nice to see red sqaure and St Peter's Palace and things like that, but essentially I could've bought a postcard and spent most of my time in a bar with Screwdrivers, whores and balalaika music. I'm hopefully going to either Bosnia or Afghanistan next year though... which is arguably quite a stupid thing to do, but hey! Such is life.






Mauritania, yesterday.

here is something from ireland...
irish folk/traditional supergroup formed from the ashes of the legendary planxty.........

MOVING HEARTS-
"THE STORM"
1986 son records
http://www.badongo.net/file/1381181

not a huge fan of irish trad music but i thought id add to this real interesting thread....

I think going to Afghanistan would be extremely fascinating, however there is no amount of money you could pay me to go there at the current time. I've been listening to an Afghan talk about his country's lost culture due to years of war on Radio Canada International, quite depressing.

The once mighty Kabul River:

here is something which is applicable to this thread. ive no info on when or where this was recorded but it is stunningly good....

KODO DRUMMERS OF JAPAN LIVE
http://www.badongo.com/file/1659491

Sounds of the Tuvan Steppe.
Huun Hurr-Sigyt/Lament og the Igil
http://www.badongo.com/file/1661693

This has been sat on my hard-drive for a bit not being listened to. It keeps varying between being good and being incredibly irritating. I wouldn't call it 'trad' particularly. I have better versions of all of these... sometimes I quite like the 'modern' 'lounge' 'jazz' arrangements, and there's some great bits with the brass going against the Uillean pipes... but I probably shan't be investigating further.

Still, thanks for the up.

Today is Thanksgiving Day in America, and it is one of the only days people remember the real Natives of this land (for all the wrong reasons). I thought it would be fitting to share some Native music. The page I will linked features music from the tribe in which my city is named after, the Omaha Tribe. There is wealth of downloads on the page and I encourage you to listen to some of them.

Omaha Indian Music

Awesome as the name of the blog suggests.
http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/

Holy shit Pork!

This is amazing!

to add to the african trend. check this. a various artists comp called "extreme music from africa". its not pretty but some of it in places is awesome................ its not strictly world music but hey, try it! (think double leopards and wolf eyes, not fela kuti or anything traditional)




http://www.badongo.net/file/1143480
here is a bit of blurb on it....

Africa - the dark continent of the tyrants, the beautiful girls, the bizarre rituals, the tropical fruits, the pygmies, the guns, the mercenaries, the tribal wars, the unusual diseases, the abject poverty, the sumptuous riches, the widespread executions, the praetorian colonialists, the exotic wildlife - and the music.

As a follow-up to Extreme Music From Japan, Susan Lawly releases Extreme Music From Africa. Compiled and co-ordinated after exhaustive research through special contacts from countries as diverse as Morocco, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda - and the Internet by William Bennett, this extraordinary compilation results in a totally unique vision of a totally unique continent.

as for a reaction to my irish thing, yeah its pretty "safe" folk stuff, its the only one i had here, ill have to raid my dads collection to get other stuff but his is mostly vinyl and cassette. ill root something better out soon...

God bless Susan Lawly. The Extreme Music From series is incredible. When is Extreme Music from China coming out?!

dunno. love to hear the japan one tho if anyone canup it here that would be much appreciated

Pauly, got out and find Extreme Music from Russia, the best one yet.

Roberto Di Simone "Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie"

http://www.marathonpacks.com/2006/11...oro-delle.html

 

So those of you who count yourself among the frequent readers of this site (bless your dear, dear hearts) might recognize this song from a post I wrote last month on OOIOO's infectious song UMO, from their great, polycultural album on Thrill Jockey, Taiga. When I heard OOIOO's song, I was instantly transfixed by the simultaneous potency and youthful innocence that served as its spiritual guide, to the point that I couldn't stop iPodding it on repeat for about three days straight. Well, there are certain reasons that I'm in love with the Internet, and intrepid commenters are one of those reasons. Someone named TG (take a bow, ma'am or sir) informed me of the fact that OOIOO's song is in fact an uncredited cover of a the song "Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie" (mp3) by Roberto Di Simone (here's a bio), and then pointed me to a WFMU blog post (with solid information about the record) with the original version of the song, from the exact same day---creepy. Simone, from what I've been able to gather from my limited selection of online sources, organized and led a group of young Italian musicians called Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, or the "New Company of Popular Music," who were devoted to creatively interpreting Italian history in song, but you know, anthropologically. They released a record in 1976 called La Gatta Cenerentola, which is a rock opera of sorts (for children?), themed around Cinderella. I love how "Secondo Coro" gently vacillates between cultural styles---at times referencing certain North African musics, and at others Indian ragas, and theatrical Chinese folk (these are mostly speculative, and partially drawn from the above bio), foreshadowing a multicultural musical methodology that would later inform OOIOO's.

Pork, you deliver again.

Thanks.My,do i love this thread!Thanks to it i've also discovered the wonderful music of Brenda Fassie.

Yes, I've saved most of the songs that could be saved from this thread and am working on putting them on CD. Quite a collection we've got here.

To hell with all the background information. Just turn the volume up, and dance like you're in a Cairo disco.



Esh 'Dani, Alash Mshit

Toura Toura

What a fucking beautiful cover!Thanks.

I'm very fond of that cover too. It was almost the sole reason I got the record, because I did not know Cheb i Sabbah was, but that cover really jumps out at you. I was thinking of making it my avatar for a while.

im on the search right now for it..........

anyone have any miriem hassan? she's a saharan blues singer who is phenominal but her albums are only available in france.

I wish I did! I've heard snippets of stuff from her, and it similar to a recent favorite of mine Issa Bagayogo of Mali (will have downloads for you all later).

A bit of a teaser here for Hassan: http://mariemhassan.calabashmusic.com/

extreme music of susan lawley........
could only find the cover art and the whitehouse page with the search..... love to hear it and the japan one. seemingly an israel one is coming out soon