World Music

[saliotthomas]

After the Cinema come the music.I do not like the terme either but it fit the subject.

Brazil is the country who produce the music i love the most,with Vinicius de morales poete and diplomateat the very top.
The best album of his is an live recording in a bar in Argentina-Cafe concert la Fusa-with Toquinio(his all time companion) Maria Crueza and Maria Betania,female singer, each on one of the 2 CDs.This is the purest jewel of Brazilian music to me.I listen to it since the age of 10(my father)and still does,with unfatigable plaisure.
Tom jobin is of obviously of the party with the girl from Ipanema ,but i favour is album wave.A great composer and guitarist but not a very good singer(blaspemy!)
Follow the excellent Joao Gilberto,Baden powel,Jorge Ben,Gilberto Jil,chico buerque de hollanda,...
Our days brazil also produce beautifull work like Bebel gilberto,lenin,Marco Farraco,... bref it's form me the country of music "white in the lyrics and black in the soul"(vinicius)

Portugal with the beautiful and sad Fado,a sort of blues with the main figure of Cesaria Evora who gave the genre it's popularity

Italie would be famous for her classical singers i won,t name her.Paolo conte created a style of his own and is for me the best of his generation.

France and Belgiun put their energy together to creat one of the most extrahodinary in the personne of Jacque Brel,le grand jacque,with texte to tear your heart out,a complete involement in his performance.Their is song from Brel i can't listen to.Le port d'amsterdam,(Bowie had a version of it)ne me quite pas,Revé un impossible reve,....Legendary songs
Talking about Piaf would be redondant.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHg6...eature=related

Spain and the flamenco,the master of the all Paco de Lucia

Egypte with the unforgetable nightingal Umm Kulthum

Pakistan and Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

India is dificult for me,the obvious Ravi Shankar,and i have to admit a certain taste for some of the Bollywood stuff,in small doses.

Algeria with the Rai rock-arabic has some very good With Cheb Khaled at the head,Cheb Mami,..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8tr...eature=related

Morroco as a very good Gnawa festival,mostly percussion.Gnawa production in a good band (no more)

Nigeria with the black Elvis Fela.

Senegale and the hilarious Zao singing in french http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKP1HNfY3JE

That's it for now.

[Stewart]

Originally Posted by saliotthomas

Our days brazil also produce beautifull work like Bebel gilberto

Oh, I quite like the Bebel Gilberto album I have: Tanto Tempo. Been a while since I listened to it.

Portugal with the beautiful and sad Fado,a sort of blues with the main figure of Cesaria Evora who gave the genre it's popularity

On Fado, the only singer I know is Marika.

France and Belgiun put their energy together to creat one of the most extrahodinary in the personne of Jacque Brel,le grand jacque,with texte to tear your heart out,a complete involement in his performance.Their is song from Brel i can't listen to.Le port d'amsterdam,(Bowie had a version of it)ne me quite pas,Revé un impossible reve,....Legendary songs

Now French music - and Francophone, to be all inclusive - I love. I'm a big fan of the music of Serge Gainsbourg. Although I don't speak French I have an understanding somewhat of his lyrics and, looking at one of my favourites, La Javanaise, he just seems to capture a moment, like a photograph, and then twist a song out of that single image. Mick Harvey, of Nick Cave's backing band, The Bad Seeds, made two albums (Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants) of Serge's songs, translated to English. The first was truer to the original style, the second played more with the form. I also love the duet with Catherine Deneuve: Dieu Fumeur de Havane.

Algeria with the Rai rock-arabic has some very good With Cheb Khaled at the head,Cheb Mami,..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm8tr...eature=related

I have a Rai album by Khaled.

That's it for now.

I'll add Mali, for the likes of the late Ali Farke Toure, Toumani Diabate, Amadou & Mariam, and Tinariwen.

[saliotthomas]

Gainsbourg is great but specialy the early years.The late years he was working a bit to much on the decadent image of Gainsbar,and his music wasn't as good.La Javanaise is a beautifull song,maybe his best.
Jacque Dutronc has done some things,with interesting texte.

[saliotthomas]

A small complement as i listen to it recently.
Cuba ,Compay Segundo,and the septetos cubano,with the great film of Wim wender and Ray Cooder.(correct me if i'm wrong)A the fabulous Celia Cruz with a voice like a machine gun.If James Brown had been a woman and Cuban,he would have been Celia-Great version of guantanamera

Mexico colorfull mariachi,not all of them playing for honey-mooners on the beach of Cancun.Paco Mitchell and his song El aventurero,the story of a casanova crossing the country is search of feminine conquest.

[Sybarite]

For those of you who enjoy French chansons, then you might also enjoy German music – the likes of Marlene Dietrich or the Weimar cabaret songs. There are plenty of recordings still available, plus Ute Lemper recorded some cabaret songs a few years ago. Then there are recordings of Lotte Lenya singing Brecht and Weill stuff.

[Stewart]

German-wise, I really like the music of Einstürzende Neubauten, which won't be to everyone's tastes. But they've been going for almost thirty years now so there musy be interest enough to keep going. They were extremely noisy back when they first started, battering assorted scrap metal and screaming along, but these last ten years they've really mellowed. And I finally got my chance to see them live last year.

[Sybarite]

Originally Posted by Stewart

German-wise, I really like the music of Einstürzende Neubauten, which won't be to everyone's tastes. But they've been going for almost thirty years now so there musy be interest enough to keep going. They were extremely noisy back when they first started, battering assorted scrap metal and screaming along, but these last ten years they've really mellowed. And I finally got my chance to see them live last year.

Once we branch out in that manner, I've loved Kraftwerk for years and have recently got into Rammstein (metal meets Wagner).

[Stewart]

Originally Posted by Sybarite

...have recently got into Rammstein (metal meets Wagner).

Oh, I love them. They are a fantastic live act, and I've seen them twice now. You may also like bands like Oomph!, Megaherz, and Eisbrecher, if you like Rammstein. And, at a push, a Slovenian band called Laibach, who really do mix the opera in with the industrial sound.

For metal meets Wagner, you need to go into Scandinavia. Finland is quite productive at the old symphonic metal genre, but the band that springs to mind is Sweden's Therion.

[Irene Wilde]

Because it seems a quiet day here, before I disappear into the wainscoting again, I wanted to echo the sentiments about Gilberto, Jobim (A.C. Jobim is more my favorite), Brel, Piaf, Cruz, and Conte. Humbly, I will add that although he sang in English, Sinatra certainly belongs in this group. And although she is also an English language singer, anyone who appreciates the previously mentioned arts might also like Kate Rusby's ethereal voice. And to go back to truly international music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Bhundu Boys are positively infectious, and the great Clifton Chenier is absolutely toe-tapping.

[Kingbee]

From Algeria I'd like to add Rachid Taha- like Led Zeppelin's Kashmir but the real deal! Made in Medina is a fantastic album.

[saliotthomas]

Originally Posted by Irene Wilde

Because it seems a quiet day here, before I disappear into the wainscoting again, I wanted to echo the sentiments about Gilberto, Jobim (A.C. Jobim is more my favorite), Brel, Piaf, Cruz, and Conte. Humbly, I will add that although he sang in English, Sinatra certainly belongs in this group. And although she is also an English language singer, anyone who appreciates the previously mentioned arts might also like Kate Rusby's ethereal voice. And to go back to truly international music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Bhundu Boys are positively infectious, and the great Clifton Chenier is absolutely toe-tapping.

Thanks Irene for those new name,i shall look for them strait away.Sinatra and i made a mission of mudering most of his classic in the shower(washing would not be the same without francky)If you like voices Esther Philips is a great one(a bit on the nasal sometime)her album "i love him"is one on the 10 i could not live without.
I let you know went i get your music.

Oh and i just found a new one from Africa- Angélique Kidjo - Djin Djin (2007)a voice very like Myriame Makeba (Madame Pata pata)a beautifull version of the ravel bolero acapela with invente africain lyric-goose pimples.

[Irene Wilde]

Murdering Sinatra in the shower is a time-honored tradition -- I'm partial to fracturing "Summer Wind" myself.

I will definitely sample Ms. Philips next time I'm on iTunes.

For a first listen to Ms. Rusby, may I suggest "Who Will Sing Me Lullabies" from her album "Little Lights"? It's the song I can't listen to, but that doesn't make it any less lovely.

[Stewart]

Originally Posted by Irene Wilde

And although she is also an English language singer, anyone who appreciates the previously mentioned arts might also like Kate Rusby's ethereal voice.

She's a really nice person, too. I met her last year at the Cambridge Folk Festival.

[Irene Wilde]

@ Stewart,

That's so nice to know. She's certainly a pistol in concert, cheerfully joking with the audience between songs of death, dying and betrayal.

@ Saliotthomas,

I'm an idiot! A quick google of Ms. Philips and she has one of the most recognizable signature songs of all time: "What a Difference a Day Makes..." I'm going to pull a hamstring kicking myself.

[Irene Wilde]

Totally adding Charles Aznavour to my playlist. I picked up a Greatest Hits CD that, upon actually playing, I discovered featured his most known songs all in English -- which helps monolinguist me understand what he's singing about. Great voice in either language.

[Betelgeused]

Surely Charles Aznavour has one of the most astonishing voices I ever heard.

Portugal's Fadois a beautiful and sad genre, I enjoy it a lot. I also like folk songs from countries of the extreme orient. Argentina's tango has to be the most beautiful and seductive dance in the world. Spain's flamenco is beautiful too, and it inspired the fandango played in Brazil's southernmost parts. French cabaret music is also awesome.

Originally Posted by saliotthomas

After the Cinema come the music.I do not like the terme either but it fit the subject.

Brazil is the country who produce the music i love the most,with Vinicius de morales poete and diplomateat the very top.
The best album of his is an live recording in a bar in Argentina-Cafe concert la Fusa-with Toquinio(his all time companion) Maria Crueza and Maria Betania,female singer, each on one of the 2 CDs.This is the purest jewel of Brazilian music to me.I listen to it since the age of 10(my father)and still does,with unfatigable plaisure.
Tom jobin is of obviously of the party with the girl from Ipanema ,but i favour is album wave.A great composer and guitarist but not a very good singer(blaspemy!)
Follow the excellent Joao Gilberto,Baden powel,Jorge Ben,Gilberto Jil,chico buerque de hollanda,...
Our days brazil also produce beautifull work like Bebel gilberto,lenin,Marco Farraco,... bref it's form me the country of music "white in the lyrics and black in the soul"(vinicius)

Hi saliotthomas!

Maybe you will like to know Oswaldo Montenegro, a brazilian musician and songwriter. Here goes a for the son song "Bandolins": YouTube - Bandolins - Oswaldo Montenegro - Edição de Imagens (I don't know who made it, but the images have nothing to do with the song)