World Music... oops, I mean, music that is perhaps unfamiliar to western listeners because it's from underrepresented places..
WOMAD just around the corner..
Duo Ruut from Estonia (22mins live KEXP)
playing at womad 2025. (drummers, how's the sticky nigh-swung shuffle in the first track? )
Went down a bit of North African vibes rabbit hole after watching Lost Track Atlantic and found this guy.
looks like victor played at womad uk. you learned me two things @garyg..
1. where Burkina Faso is, and,
2. that an astonishing voice can make up for a plugged in acoustic's bubbly warble (why, oh why would you use the pick-up in an acoustic guitar in a studio where they could stick a beautiful ribbon mic or a Neumann U87 in the room and a dynamic mic in front of the sound hole?? why?? )
interesting act at womadelaide 25 (from the website):
Hewa Rwanda - Letter to the absent
Rwanda / Senegal
Thirty years after the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi, Dorcy Rugamba — actor, author, director and a major figure of the Rwandan cultural scene — brings to life an extract from his work Hewa Rwanda – Letter to the absent, a profoundly moving tale of his family, culture and spirituality. In tandem with Senegalese multi-instrumentalist and singer Majnun, Rugamba presents a musical reading from his memoir, an ode to immeasurable loss and love. “How can one grasp the full dimension of an event that wiped out more than a million people?” he asks. He remains as close as possible to those who are absent, honours their memory and lives, and explores the world of before in search of its beauty and poetry. Rugamba creates a moving account, transporting the audience with his writing and a voice of rare intensity.
Majnun:
I dont mind some Indonesia music of various types.
One musically style in Indo you will hear a lot on buses, taxis and even shops etc is Dangdut it's popular in village area's and among working class and its weird because when live they often have scantily clad women thrusting and gyrating .
Indo is a crazy place full of contradiction's.
This is typical of the sound and lyric's etc.
And this one is typical of the more raunchy side, tame by our standards, but remember Indo is majority muslim country.
&list=PL_RU4fEAqDjiregHMvrI31-qVun2R7jDb And this is a band that is kind of like Indo's Tism or Regurgitator celebrating that style of music with a bit of rock dangdut blend
Zam rock.
Spanish fly
Project Pop are cool @indo, but shii-iit @blackers, that AMOR, MUERTE Y LEONORA Ep!! should be in the tunes thread.
These guys were huge in Indonesia about 20 years ago, pretty mainstream sound but i still dig some of their songs, good for my Indonesian, a mate pretty much perfected his Indonesian from drunken Indo karaoke nights.
For perspective of their popularity this video has 103 million views.
The lead singer Ariel even had a leaked porn video that went viral and he and GF Luna went to court over it*
Not sure if he did the sentence or paid the fine or what, crazy and sad.
* Porn is technically illegal in Indonesia, even Vimeo is banned because of nudity but i swear half of Indonesia has porn dowloaded on their phones, including half my wife's friends.
"Prosecution demands five years jail for Ariel Peterpan"
https://en.antaranews.com/news/66717/prosecution-deamadns-five-years-jai...
Always dug this song and band from 90's 00's Indo.
Good memories singing with buskers in Jogya....
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K-Pop ok?
?si=HWeWyt7XMrLHImFb Sticking with busker theme. Bob Dylan of Indo, Iwan Fals.
Song about his son when a young child who sadly died later in life of Herion OD I believe.
https://m.
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not to everyone's taste.
so to keep the tunes thread punky and cool, here's a thread for music from cultures who's music may be unfamiliar to western ears.. no real term for it.. 'world music' is like the term 'foreign films'.. depends where you're from/very USA-centric. 'music from many cultures' sounds forced, bland and over-manufactured.
Anyway. Cool music from around the world.