My name is Mitică. I’m romanian. What this means? Vampires, sure!
But I have an uncontrollable taste for a different life force: music.
It’s my experience that radio, tv, these don’t bring the best music available around the world. But internet can do that. All you have to do is search. But searching can be a pain.
So I propose to you a world wide music experience. Post here any music you love. Not Lady GaGa though. Everybody knows of her. Preferably music in your country most people don’t even know, but it’s so beautiful you can not help but listen to it and enjoy. Ethnic music, but also world wide genres: rock, pop, new age, metal.
Also I would love this to be about tasteful music, not clones. Every nation has its share of copycats in music. Trance, rave, techno. These are all over the place. It’s the electronic music of Vangelis or Kitaro gone bag. I would love to hear music that’s music from the heart: like Lhasa. Or less world wide known national prides like Natasha St. Pier. Or ethnic folk musicians like Gheorghe Zamfir.
That Mariza reminds me of Dulce Pontes in this duet with Andrea Bocelli: O’mare E Tu
I can’t listen to female-voiced opera, but luckily she doesn’t sing any screechy opera here.
One of my favourite bands, Aterciopelados: La culpable (though this is maybe the closest they’ve gone towards traditional sound)
more modern: Musica
They started out punk mixed with traditional, and slowly moved through rock and electronica, with shamanistic jungle singing and hippy themes throughout. Their last two albums are basically my mental soundtrack of the movie “Avatar” which made me think of the Amazon.
Belgian-Congolese a capella doing 16th century Spanish Christian monastery chant: Din din - Zap Mama
Garmarna does medieval Swedish which the Corvas Corax reminded me of: Vänner och Fränder
I remember their song about the wolf who asks the girl to come down the tree. She offers him her gold and silver but he only wants her blood.
Korpiklaani is also one of the most awesome bands in the world. Rock mixed with Finnish Sami stories. Shall we take a turn? Kipumylly
The Pain Mill. Loosely from the Kalevala.
Ieva’s Polka by Loituma got on a local energy commercial for some reason, but also is awesome. Sometimes a capella and sometimes violin and other intstruments in their music.
Sp, there are probably other beautiful melodies, but this one also is worth mentioning: Garmarna - Euchari
so we’ve been from Portugal to Italy, from Italy to Colombia, from Colombia to Belgium-Congo, from Belgium-Congo to Sweden, from Sweden to Finland, from Finland to Lebanon.
Bhutain, I am missing some plugin for the first link, but the second one is lovely.
If we get get Turkish food from Özgür’s there’s usually awesome music videos being played on the television there. Sometimes they play Tarkan which cracks me up because as a kid he was The Hottie in Mexico. I dunno how he got so popular in Mexico but it was everywhere.
Seriously doina haiducului has a disturbing video : )
Draga otee has a bit of that flavour I like from Mexican music. Love it!
Some Dutch music. Haha.
Heidevolk does a sort of pagan/folk metal… at their concerts you’ll see guys with braided beards drinking beer from large horns : )
Rowwen Hèze does all sorts of music but of course what attracts me is the Tex-Mex : ) Bestel Maar (just order!) Henk Is Enne Lollige Vent (Henk is one jolly fellow)
Doe Maar was a huge band over here, but I’m pretty sure they’re not well-known outside the Netherlands. They were a ska-reggae band in the 80’s: Smoorverliefd The word is hard to translate, it’s like deep in a crush like you have when you’re young and stupid. Rumah Saya (rumah saya, dimana- my home, where?) one of my favourites. One of the band members is indo, his father’s home is Indonesia, his mother’s is Netherlands, but he doesn’t feel at home in either. Bella donna instrumental, more trippy drug songs : )
And two sillies: Roodkapje by Pater Moeskroen
Who is afraid, of the angry wolf?
Who is afraid, of the angry wolf, the wolf?
Little red-cap starts getting seriously pissed at having to repeat that she’s going to Grandma’s… and to hell with wolves. : ) Dr Livingston : )
Dr. Livingstone! (Dr. Livingstone!)
Stop 'm in een pot en bak 'm bruin
Dr. Livingstone! (Dr. Livingstone!)
Van z’n grote teen tot aan z’n kruin
Throw him in a pot and bake him brown
from his big toe to the top of his head!
