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