World Music... oops, I mean, music that is perhaps unfamiliar to western listeners because it's from underrepresented places..
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.
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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.
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.
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Spanish fly
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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-ja…
Always dug this song and band from 90's 00's Indo.
Good memories singing with buskers in Jogya....
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.
zenagain wrote:
K-Pop ok?
Of course bring it on, for some reason my daughter loves it but for some reason she loves anything Korean or Japanese, be it food, fashion, music, art, cartoons, culture.
Few North African toons already, which is good to see. A style I dip in and out of every few years is the desert blues of Ali Farke Toure or the more complex patterns of Tinariwen.
Was a time I could sound this whole song. Sounding being a version of singing when you don't know the words but pretend you do.
here's some next level 'sounding' @stu.. and it's their own music! if Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Terry Gilliam had a cantina scene, this would be the band I reckon..
(Finnish space-cadets Ismo Alanko and Kimmo Pohjonen = Pohjonen Alanko)
I do like the Tinariwen groove. Big Sky guitar sounds, psychedelic and hypnotic.
In a similar vein from the land of Zen.
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Blackers, mate, I farking love that band. Superb musicians and great stoner music.
zenagain wrote:
Blackers, mate, I farking love that band. Superb musicians and great stoner music.
Awesome zen, would love to see them live sometime.
basesix wrote:
can you play tapes @blackers?
Pass me a bugle and I'll give it a crack, can't guarantee anything tho. :)
If you meant cassettes, yes I still have a working deck.
haha, cool. I just bought my daughter a FiiO CP13 'walkman', she loves it. says it's like having a friend with her cos it has moving parts, and she and it have to decide what's what before they leave the house.. (she has access to what's left of my old tapes, mostly mysteries to her).
basesix wrote:
Project Pop are cool @indo, but shii-iit @blackers, that AMOR, MUERTE Y LEONORA Ep!! should be in the tunes thread.
damn it. ^ this maybe came across as critical. AMOR is easily the best thing I have heard in this genre for quite a while. I was complimenting it. Geez I wish they had something live on the net. visited Knuckles on Stun, got no. 24 and 25 of their previous EPs on tape:
https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-499/amor-muerte-y-leonora-c…
No problemo, none taken. Amore Muerte.. are a 3 PBS special, heard it on the way home from work. Thought it sat as well here as anywhere, perhaps even in the "I wish it was 1994 still" thread.
As for the walkman, it's great to see young ones revisiting ancient technologies. Know anyone who wants to buy a mini disc walkman?
those things were frigging cool.. portable recordable digital, on pocket-sized cartridges, I still have lotsa field recordings I did on mine around the 00s. not sure I have working player though..
A bit more North African stuff. Bit of a collaboration this one.
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Okinawan flying tree-spirit..!!
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman - 'Chon Chon Kijimuna'
That's my kinda...Sticky Wicket Hat Trick
Stoked to get The basesix Ball rollin' with our Rare Titty Shaker...(Can't say...nevermind!)
Word is this '60's Sax Siren Guru plays in a WA Band of same name...Shh!
1970 Ravi Shankar's nephew Ananda performs Snow Flower from his Debut LP
Dedicated perfect delivery to sound out the basesix World Music Pitch...
Well played Sir... runs in the family!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Shankar_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Forest
Our World Music Psych Guru basesix Tribute...completely bowled over & far out dudes!
Gromz : "So that's wot you Hodad's call a number!" Pass!
every one's a winner baby! Mustangs the shit, 3-minute sitar limit=genius. and fcuk me @tbb, Atomic Forest say 'get with the microtones when get your mind-expansion fuzz cooking, ya western kooks!' (sounds better in Marathi/Hindi). Here's an oldie but goody for a Monday morning 'everything shake' to degunk:
Gumnaam - 'Jaan Pehechaan Ho'
Radio Mundial - Tuesday night - 8 to 10 pm. Bayfm .org . Also has podcasts if you miss the program . Brilliant world music show , Steve Snelgrove , been doin it for years , used to be on Lismore uni radio , now at Byron
Man are there some quality trax being cued here...getting off on these sounds...Salute the whole crew!
Do ya think we're sounding a bit too posh...'Like Yeah! I have this on my turntable'...sure, right!
I'm a very well rounded worldly person underneath my usual swellnet false front...fooling no one!
So have we out played YouTube & Are we even capable of coming back down to earth.
Just wonderin' if basesix will except exceptional Record Selector Rejects that don't officially exist!
Like if ya cross-polynate Mah-Na-Mah-Na Go Go singers with a wild crazy Keem-O-Sabe drummer.
Pretty sure ya can't mix world music like that...it's got to be cultured or some shit...back me up crew!
Weird Track is by The Dave Pell Singers...Dave is a Quality Jazz / Big Band Leader / Producer.
So what's Jazzy Dave's big claim to fame then tbb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pell
Dave was the Band Leader for...[ No matter what shape your stomach's in ] Fantastic Instrumental! Yes!
Go on...sounds real interesting...so ya can't just go back in time and stir up shit...tbb begs to differ!
No harm in letting the crew get off sniffing thru the reject pile in a 1969 record bar bin!
swellnet drum circle Rubber Stamps Dave Pell's shit hot Drummer...well there ya go...that settles it!
World sound : French GoGo Gurlz Scatting Indian Keem-O-Sabe + drummer smashes up wrong studio! Typical!
Ok! Here we go...just saying this Track doesn't officially exit outside of basesix World Music Oopsies!
tbb adds this track / LP is impossible to find on Google Search / YouTube...unless ya know shit...don't lose this link!
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/136351/all
Also there are a few odd 60's LP's that out-do the original Track they tribute...so sorry mate...it's just what we do!
Which in this particular case is near impossible...(Note both versions were released in Oct '69!)
Could be that Dave's band were to be the franchised tour band if the track hit pay dirt..
As Iconic Original was by a long established Top selling world performer artist Len Barry.
Makes this interesting with Quality Producers reworking this iconic track in Oct '69
Coz both Dave/Len's arrangements are sharp & ahead of their time...mod-new wave delivery!
That Keyboardist / drummer could play in Blondie...damn fine power pop unit here! Pay to see that live!
See birth of Disco... MFSB / TSOP > plenty of quality re dos in Disco era to follow up here.
was set to say I loved that electric indian original after following the link, and I do, but the schmicker pell version with the camp vocals is very evocative.. kinda where 007 meets disco. both versions went well with a coffee..
here's some super mellow Cambodian psych-edged pop, not as fun and 12-bar as The Cambodian Space Project, but has a little thursdee mornin melancholy for anyone steelin towards draggin their bones about today.
Dengue Fever - Touch Me Not, 2023
Dengue Fever - Silverfish, 2023
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Fun little live Dengue Fever jam, has dated lyrical genius like:
'I know we're so, so, so, so tired,
my phone card just expired'
(they also have a live KEXP set on youtube..)
"an Indigenous vocalist from southern Taiwan, Sauljaljui is celebrated for her soulful interpretations of traditional Paiwan melodies and Hengchun folk songs."
Tinariwen
Dessert blues
Tuareg musicians from Saharan South Algeria and Northern Mali Azawad region.
Think this is the wrong gig & the wrong era again...Why does this keep happening!
Wait up Strange time tripper Dude!
Can ya just hold yer hip tune for 60 years or until Ben's Tunesmiths get up to speed...
Ok! We're Ready...with yer wildly underrepresented stage for yer weird gig mate...
So wotz this mental song about...Wot makes it so shit hot...
It's a 60's Buzzcocks Blank Gen Backbeat 'bout Trump's Back 2 the Future Biff Hamburger Gig!
Sounds like something the crew would get off on...can't wait to serve it up to them...
Let's Rock'n'Twist Slop Hully Gully
1977 Starman Track is dedicated to Spacey Kraftwerk founder of same name.
{ Ben's Tunesmiths } Double Bonus Treat...Wow! Lucky Crew! Stoked!
Doubles as Soundtrack Theme for yer Bonus 1981 Arthaus Treasure { Christiane F. }
Uploaded to { Internet Archive } exclusively for swellnet World Music site...2,000 views...Shh!
Archive site loads 2hrs + Film without Ads...insane quality Top Shelf reward.
https://www.last.fm/music/David+Bowie/Christiane+F.:+Wir+Kinder+Vom+Bah…
Lyrics
https://genius.com/Tao-jones-index-v2-schneider-lyrics
Free 1981 Doped Out New Wave Euro Trash Arthaus Youth Flick { Christiane F }
Starman : " Enjoy yer dedicated underrepresented Other Worldly Treasure! "
https://archive.org/details/christiane-f.-1981-english-sub-720p-24
Internet Archive (Above) [Censored] by DOGE ...Who else...Huh!
tbb enjoyed the above film last night ....perhaps the last ever screening for iconic online cinema.
Looks like it's hangin' on by a thread...you'd wanna take up the free offer sooner than later...
Going going gone...
Trump is banning all historical internet culture as tbb types this comment...not a joke...this is very real!
re: Qld Joh's Censorship Board & NT Nazis + Qld Martini Mussolini ban on Reviews / Truth Telling.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-5326573/internet-archive-wayback-m…
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-tru…
No doubt Cristiane F was gonna get wiped from history here in Qld & Deep South Rep' Nazi States.
All right wing nut jobs are back to burning Books & Films again...
Joh's Police confiscated tbb's punk lyrics > GC Bully would censor tbb's comments live online...Paranoid Fuckers!
B(vs)W or Adam (vs) Eve...that's yer lot...A-Z or BC to infinity never exists for pea brain dictators.
Divide & Conquer...fucking nut jobs Good (vs) Evil or Heaven / Hell no other worldly tales.
Gotta stop the world from spinning then iron it out nice and flat again...all sail off edge of the World!
Trump's Censorship forbids Truth, Justice & The American Way = Dumb-arse Planet of the Apes
Lets go Ape...enjoy this Wild track before Trump Tariffs rebrand then ban it for being too wild for fisty pumps!
Can see this swellnet site being redacted for being to Worldly...be all black spaces where Life & fun once existed.
Thanks for the good tracks being posted.
Never heard of this guy until recently, amazing guitarist.
Euro disco is okay when done like this.
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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.