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Chanteuse d' Opéra · 10-20-2009, 09:31 PM

Does anyone listen to international/world music? Like in the realms of:

Latin America:
-Merengue
-Salsa
-Bachata
-Samba (Brazil)
-Bossa Nova (Brazil)
-Brazilian Jazz

Europe:
French Music
Italian Music (Laura Pausini, Nek, Eros Ramazzotti, opera, etc.)

Africa/Middle East:
Nigerian Music
S. African Music
Arabic & Persian music (Nancy Ajram, Amr Diab, Shahyad, etc.)

Asia:
Korean
J-Pop (Japanese Pop Music)
Indian Music (Hindi, Bollywood music, etc.)

I absolutely love listening to International music, it's so refreshing...I love how music touches all parts of the world. My favorite music by far has to be:
*Arabic music (love love love it)
*Hindi music
*Italian music

Thomas R. · 10-21-2009, 04:42 AM

Oh yes I like a great deal of international/world music. In vocals I suppose I'm particularly partial to Celtic, South African, and Brazilian. In instrumental I like Andean pretty well, but I have a larger diversity on what instrumental music I like. For Hindi and Arabic I generally, but not always, prefer instrumental to vocal. Here's some from four continents that I have CDs of (In Gilberto's case it's more she's on a Getz CD I have)

YouTube - Stan Getz / Astrud Gilberto - Corcovado

YouTube - Souad Massi - Raoui

YouTube - Loreena McKennitt - Caravanserai (HQ)

(The McKennit is in English, but has a bit of a Mideastern influence)

Thomas R. · 10-21-2009, 04:46 AM

The original Huun-Huur-Tu I picked was not one I liked too well so I'm switching.

YouTube - Huun Huur tu - Kongurei

kevxu · 10-21-2009, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Chanteuse d' Opéra

Does anyone listen to international/world music? Like in the realms of:............................

I have liked "world music" since the Fifties and Sixties when it was always chucked in a bin labelled "Folk Music."

My first purchases as soon as I moved to NYC in 59/60 were Piaf, Om Khalsoum, Amalia Rodrigues and Nana Maskouri. Back in the era of LP's I had managed to collect every single Piaf recording produced in the US or imported...and I really rooted around to find Om Khalsoum, who was magnificent. Her recordings were the first ones where I ever heard a peformer sing one song for twenty minutes or more!! Sheesh, she was beyond great.

In the 80's I belatedly got into Brazilian MPB, Maria Bethânia, Nana Caymmi, Leni Andrade, Alcione, Chico Buarte, Caetano Veloso, etc. Have at least four shoebox-size boxes of Brazilian recordings (stored out of their jewel boxes, so there are a lotta lotta CD's there.)

Then I got into music from Cabo Verde, and other Afro-Portuguese countries. Lived in the eastern Med for awhile and picked a couple of dozen Greek recordings...mostly George Dalaras, who I think is one of the greatest songwriters and singers ever in pop music.

And while I was out there I got interested in Middle Eastern music and Hindi and Urdu.

While I love classic American jazz from the Fifties and early Sixties...and, of course, many pop standards that date back to the Thirties and Forties, most of the time it is World Music that is on the CD player.

Interesting that while I loved black R&B and R&R, funk and soul (thought "rock" was boringly pretentious, and still do) I, nevertheless, listen to very little of it now.

I have a 5 CD player and what's on it right now is:

Ouro Preto, Moacir Santos - double CD, Brazilian choro & jazz;
Brazilian Horizons, various mainly US jazz artists;
Dancando Pelas Sombras, Boca Livre;
The Brazil Project Vol. 2, Toots Thielemans - him playing with various Brazilian singers and musicians, lots of good cuts.

Ala dos Namorados and Sara Tavares, Portugal (a favorite of mine)