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.
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.