World Music Recommendations

[kareface]

Thanks for bumping this, I'd forgotten to dig through for more goodies.



I was trying to find the actual Pilentze Pee track from Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, which VAST sampled for the song 'Touched', but this is the London Bulgarian Choir performing it:



Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a recording on Youtube, but this is Mohammad Reza Shajarian's "Language of Fire". It's very much worth listening to.

http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=130047062&m=130106360&t=audio

I'm not sure if this counts, but Helium Vola is a German group that combines a classically trained composer and a classically trained vocalist; they take early music (most of their songs are from scraps of poetry in Old French (langue d'oc and langue d'oil), old German, old Italian, Latin, etc.) and make/rework the music for it. One of my favourite bands. Her voice fucking murders me.




You could probably also make a solid argument for Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ as being world music:

Thank you, I used one of the examples you had here to find a song to review. Very nice music, the vocals blow me away.

[Rhyis.]

Sigur Ròs - Untitled 3
wiki describes the band as Islandic post-rock

Sigur Ròs is one of the greatest bands ever created.

My favourite songs are:
Hoppípolla
Glósóli
Untitled 8
Untitled 1
Saeglopur
Meo Blódnasir
Starálfur
Svefn-G-Englar
Flugufrelsarinn


Interesting fact: Even though they're Icelandic, the singer isn't singing in any proper language. They take Icelandic syllables and sounds and merge them into the context of the music. It's kind of like scat singing in jazz, but done in a significantly different and more complex way. The fans call it Vonlenska or Hopelandic.

[Greedouw]

The Buddha-Bar collection has an awesome amount of world/trance/chill/ whatever you wanna call it...

Bebel Gilberto "Aganju" (Portuguese)


Also, not sure if this counts as world or not, but being a Classics major (Latin/Roman/Greek history) music like this makes me smile:

[Riposte]

I am going to have to back the Yoshida Brothers 100%. Great fucking music.

I have a (wild) suspicion one their songs was the inspiration for Warriors(Fighters?) of the Crystal, Arc Angel song. I'll post it later.

[kareface]

I've used many of the suggestions off of this thread. I'm also finding a bunch of music of my own. Here's an interesting one I found: