Beautiful Music from Around the World

**czardas** · 02-20-2011, 06:35 AM

**czardas** · 02-20-2011, 09:00 PM

This band is is pretty famous.

Please post more

**Tom Karol** · 02-20-2011, 09:17 PM

Here's one I always enjoy - I think I got it from this board a while back:

**Stackabones** · 02-20-2011, 09:27 PM

The Swell Season: Glen Hansard (Irish) & Marketa Irglova (Czech).

Nice harmonies, especially ethereal in the middle section. Maybe you saw them in Once?

**NSJ** · 02-20-2011, 10:03 PM

This is a great thread idea! Loved the examples so far. I can't post links at the moment, I would YouTube the great Ali Akbar Khan--if you've ever seen the documentary on the life and career of Julian Bream, there's a scene where he's trying to improvise a duet with Khan and Bream remarks how in credible it must be to spontaneously compose music "without paper".

Apparently, there is a form of "sarod picking" applicable to guitar. Unfortunately, it's kind of difficult to play both instruments, as the Sarod kind of requires nails....on the LEFT hand

**Jazzpunk** · 02-22-2011, 05:49 PM

**czardas** · 02-24-2011, 06:32 PM

**czardas** · 02-24-2011, 07:31 PM

Jazzpunk

Thanks, that looks very interesting. The 18 month correspondance made me laugh. I bet that letter confused a lot of people on its journey around the villages before somebody figured it out and decided to respond.

**Peter C** · 02-25-2011, 07:07 PM

**Peter C** · 02-25-2011, 07:35 PM

Amina Alaoui - Amours ou trop tard me suis pris. The singing starts just after 1'30

**23skidoo** · 03-11-2011, 09:56 AM

What a great thread....just found it buried amongst the flamenco stuff....

I love the guitar in zulu jive stuff from the sixties and seventies. I was looking for a track from this group called Isisu Somhambi (Music Which Feeds The Guests) - a great title for a great cut. It's on the compilation Soweto Never Sleeps. If you like these, you should check it out....

**23skidoo** · 03-11-2011, 10:07 AM

This is my favorite Cuban piano player. This album - Briyumba Palo Congo - is in heavy rotation around my place lately.... also has a great version of Rhapsody In Blue....

**akubra** · 03-11-2011, 11:59 AM

**23skidoo** · 03-14-2011, 09:09 AM

Ali Farka Toure from Mali.....

**Markyboy** · 03-14-2011, 01:42 PM

Ethioian Blues with the late Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed

**23skidoo** · 03-16-2011, 10:03 AM

La Comparsa performed by Eliades Ochoa.... couldn't find a clip of the full tune, from the lp 'Sublime Ilusion"

**23skidoo** · 03-16-2011, 10:07 AM

Joao Gilberto's daughter Bebel Gilberto....

**ohlcv** · 03-16-2011, 11:25 AM

Somebody stop me!

Bluegrass meets Riverdance.

**23skidoo** · 03-16-2011, 07:28 PM

It's funny - I grew up and live in the American south, very southern, pretty redneck family. I spent some time in the U.K. and Ireland a few years ago and it's amazing how similar the people look. I'd get off the train in some small town and it would be like looking into the faces of people on Main Street in Tifton, Georgia. Can definitely see the Scotch/Irish/English gene pool in the south.... Have lots of friends in the Tennessee and N. Carolina hills that play bluegrass and it's really just Irish dance music, especially the fiddle stuff. I've been to parties up there where three generations sit on the porch and the old guys teach and everybody plays something.... it's white blues, what I was raised on. Thanks for posting these. Ricky Skaggs can be a little on the hokey side but he screams.....

**czardas** · 03-17-2011, 06:18 AM

Some great new posts have been added to this thread. While we're on the topic of American music, here's one of my all time favourite songs. You are probably all familiar with Joni's music.

For a little diversion, can you name the instrument she is playing?

**23skidoo** · 03-17-2011, 08:37 AM

czardas-

great post - 'Blue' is one of my 'trapped on a desert island with 10 records' choices....lots of beautiful tunes and she sings like an angel. California is one of favorite tunes to play when I actually find someone that can sing. I'd never heard her play it solo just like this.... pretty tasty.

I won't comment on the instrument since I actually know someone in the N. Georgia hills that makes them....

BTW - you don't want to piss off the Canadians that post here calling this 'American' music - they're pretty proud of her, I think....