World Music

[Shark]

This thread was created for the purpose of furthering one another's knowledge and appreciation for world music.

[Icarus]

I urge everyone who hasn't to check out Konono No.1. They're closest to traditional Bozombo or trance music. They're from Kinshasa, Congo, and have merged their Bozombo sound to an immense, dated Dutch sound rig that massively distorts their traditional likembe tones (thumb piano). Pulsating, wildly polyrhythmic dance music with an unintentionally experimental bent stemming from their dated, handmade equipment and intoxicating repetitions (they've been compared to Can in that regard). Wonderful, wonderful band, I couldn't help but dance and dance and dance when I saw them live. Seeing them again this spring, hopefully.

Check them out at:

http://www.crammed.be/konono/

[snugglepony]

I urge everyone who hasn't to check out Konono No.1. They're closest to traditional Bozombo or trance music. They're from Kinshasa, Congo, and have merged their Bozombo sound to an immense, dated Dutch sound rig that massively distorts their traditional likembe tones (thumb piano). Pulsating, wildly polyrhythmic dance music with an unintentionally experimental bent stemming from their dated, handmade equipment and intoxicating repetitions (they've been compared to Can in that regard). Wonderful, wonderful band, I couldn't help but dance and dance and dance when I saw them live. Seeing them again this spring, hopefully.

Check them out at:

http://www.crammed.be/konono/

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whoa i only heard of them last year with assume crash position (which is brilliant). 3 years ahead of the curve.

so, like, recommend, like, songs? like for me to, like, listen to?

again — i have slow internet so let it be fantastic stuff ok?

hit me

naff title tho

[Aeroplane]

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[Eccles]

checkout the remix twofer tradimods vs rockers

some decent names do congotronics

missed seeing them a few years back cos they didnt get visas

still bummed

also recent comp shaangan electro of south african music is awesome

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[Aeroplane]

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mr. souleyman killed it at glastonbury this year

how far are we from a foreign act headlining glasto really, eh?

I mean really? really, I mean.. come on, reeeally

[blm14]

ananda shankar

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Hossam Ramzy

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ex centric sound system

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Yuzo Kayama and the Launchers

http://www.garagehangover.com/?q=YuzoKayama

[Guest naknakBeast]

Dengue Fever>>>>

[killer b]

i'm a big fan of the funkier side of bollywood soundtracks - did this mix a bit ago from a big stack i found on a bootmarket

http://www.mediafire.com/?dh4ob23zfo47uiz

mostly tracks voiced by asha bhosle (of 'brimful of asha' fame), latta mangeshkar and mohammed rafi.

for african music, hi-life & afrobeat from the 70s & 80s are what swings for me - anything by fela kuti obviously, but also king sunny ade, gasper lawal & dele abiodun are worth checking out. the 'nigeria 70' comps on strut records are all brilliant.

this comp of 70s nigerian psych-rock is a revelation too...

http://zoltarsrevenge.blogspot.com/2009/10/va-nigeria-rock-special-psychedelic.html

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This live version of Dum Maro Dum by Asha Bhosle so, so funky.

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back in '78, when RD Burman was still alive at the Royal Albert Hall. Would've loved to be there.

[killer b]

have you heard the album she did with the kronos quartet? she does a version of that on there...

[Magsåvningsreserven]

i've heard that version before, not that much of a fan though. it's kind of.. bland tbh.

[readytoignite]

if you like crazy guitars, group doueh is the shit

i love pretty much everything amadou et mariam have done, but esp sou ni tile... just lovely songs and arrangements no matter what country / language (in this case mali / french).

orchestra baobob kind of splits the middle - inspired playing, good arrangements and that afro-cuban steez you know and love from the senegalese

btw, not too into the world music label, it's really christgau / 80s token "other." many many shitty 80s records

[killer b]

Le Mystere des voix Bulgares

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[eat skull]

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