RYKANSLOPE
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Ok,
I listen to a lot of music coming from different places and, honestly is where I find the more interesting stuff, I mostly dig african music, where the cuban influence kicked back and gave birth to all sorts of interesting hybrids, but there's cool stuff all over the place, from berber music to javanese gamelan, and when you enter the field of world fusion things get even more interesting.
right,
talking about gamelan, Sambasunda are an amazing quintet, that re-elaborate traditional gamelan infusing it with african influences, but those are so well merged that you wouldn't notice normally, it's just plain beautiful music
Gamelan music has been so influential in the west, think about the minimalist antics of Steve Reich and co. or some Bjork of the vesper tine era...
Juju is Justin Adams and Gambian ritti player Juldeh Camara, they play a mix of african and western music, they are incredible and they've written some of my favourite trance music ever, their last album "in Trance" is great
The tightness of it all...
Tinariwen are a berber-beduin band that writes songs mostly guitar driven, Tuareg melodies that cross pollinate with bluesy influences, they are very cool and proper legends.So you don't need to go ask the Doors when you need desert music. By the way most of the songs are about the desert.
Their last album "tassel" is very good and you want to listen it.
I am not the biggest fan of Shye ben, who has been dealing with qawwali (Sufi devotional music) for a while, but this single is just addictive.
Another great album from last year was "Fatou" by Fatoumata Diawara, A Malian singer now living in France, a mix of hypnotic guitars and african percussions, feel good on the surface but in contrast with the lyrics, often dealing with some serious issues (female circumcision for example). very soothing tho, and she is gorgeous and she has a lovely voice.
I'll post some others later
I listen to a lot of music coming from different places and, honestly is where I find the more interesting stuff, I mostly dig african music, where the cuban influence kicked back and gave birth to all sorts of interesting hybrids, but there's cool stuff all over the place, from berber music to javanese gamelan, and when you enter the field of world fusion things get even more interesting.
right,
talking about gamelan, Sambasunda are an amazing quintet, that re-elaborate traditional gamelan infusing it with african influences, but those are so well merged that you wouldn't notice normally, it's just plain beautiful music
Gamelan music has been so influential in the west, think about the minimalist antics of Steve Reich and co. or some Bjork of the vesper tine era...
Juju is Justin Adams and Gambian ritti player Juldeh Camara, they play a mix of african and western music, they are incredible and they've written some of my favourite trance music ever, their last album "in Trance" is great
The tightness of it all...
Tinariwen are a berber-beduin band that writes songs mostly guitar driven, Tuareg melodies that cross pollinate with bluesy influences, they are very cool and proper legends.So you don't need to go ask the Doors when you need desert music. By the way most of the songs are about the desert.
Their last album "tassel" is very good and you want to listen it.
I am not the biggest fan of Shye ben, who has been dealing with qawwali (Sufi devotional music) for a while, but this single is just addictive.
Another great album from last year was "Fatou" by Fatoumata Diawara, A Malian singer now living in France, a mix of hypnotic guitars and african percussions, feel good on the surface but in contrast with the lyrics, often dealing with some serious issues (female circumcision for example). very soothing tho, and she is gorgeous and she has a lovely voice.
I'll post some others later