The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[Lisnaholic]

Thanks to Safar and Psy-Fi for continued explorations of world music. However, this thread does say "Country, Folk and World", and I'd like to share something from the country/folk end of the spectrum.
Iris DeMent won't be a new name to many of us, but I was struck this morning by how good this song is; a bit of down-home wisdom, sweetly delivered:-



I also like that she takes as her starting point the same questions that were nagging at Gauguin when he painted his famous "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?":



If Gauguin had taken an Iris DeMent album to Tahiti, he would've had a ready answer to his own questions.

[Psy-Fi]

Various Artists - Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955​-​69)

Padang Moonrise is the story of modern Indonesian music that emerged underneath the volcanoes of Java and Sumatra. Java, the most populous island in the archipelago of over 17,000 islands and 1300 distinct ethnic groups, and its capital city Jakarta, was where most of the post-colonial national identity, politics, administration and music production was centred.

Traditional songs from Java, Sumatra, Bali and beyond were re-imagined by a small group of state-sponsored musicians that also composed and arranged new music. These songs aimed at consolidating a geographically disparate country with a new language and new ideas of national character. This compilation brings together a handful of these recordings that combine elements of regional popular music, Islamic Gambus, Javanese & Balinese Gamelan and Kroncong, with jazz, Afro-latin music & instrumentation, and vocal harmonies influenced by banned American doo-wop and rock & roll.

The results are a unique blend of styles that have remained mostly insulated from the world outside of Indonesia until a recent worldwide resurgence in the interest of recorded music of all forms has shone a new light on these nearly forgotten recordings.

[Safar]

Known for her lengthy tenure touring and busking with beloved New Orleans jazz band Tuba Skinny, prolific songwriter and singer Erika Lewis has been churning out American originals all her own for the past several years.

Erika Lewis - Hearts (USA)


Jerry Garcia · David Grisman · Tony Rice - Shady Grove (USA)

Spoiler for Grateful Dead - Iko Iko:

Joscho Stephan - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Germany)

[Stephen]

Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick "Omega"

[Safar]

Our starting point was the shared, universality of environmental problems and music. Nature as a provider of housing and resources has a strong connection with music, which is a common language of all human beings.
Play for Nature (Doğa İçin Çal) is a project that the Playing for Change team corroborated on for several months.

DOĞA İÇİN ÇAL 12 - DENİZ ÜSTÜ KÖPÜRÜR, KAĞIZMAN (Turkey)

Spoiler for DOĞA İÇİN ÇAL 10 - İKİ KEKLİK, DERE GELİYOR DERE:

[Safar]

The Gama brothers, Mongo and Kacho, hail from Naucalpan, just west of Mexico City. They learned to play marimba from their father, Batuco. ....they formed Son Rompe Pera in 2017, becoming unlikely marimba ambassadors, infusing cumbia and other tropical rhythms with a little of that punk energy.

Son Rompe Pera - Cumbia Algarrobera (Mexico)

Lorraine is one of the few South African artists who has preserved the classic sound of ‘Township Music‘, which continues to be the most distinctive sound to come out of South Africa.

Lorraine Klaasen - Jabulani (South Africa)


Billy Strings - Long Journey Home (USA)


Carol of The Bells

[grindy]

Some sweet af, virtuoso brazilian jazz

[Safar]

As are Ezra: their ever-expanding vocabulary – always heavy on afrobeat, dub and the young sounds of London – includes riotous salsa, UK funky, what sounds like the brass backbone to South African gqom and some seriously impressive genre blends in the league of Little Simz.

Ezra Collective - Victory Dance (UK)

Spoiler for Ezra Collective - Ego Killah:

[Safar]

Cheikha Rimitti was an Algerian raï female singer. ... Rimitti was being hailed as la mamie du Rai, the grandmother of the style.

Cheikha Rimitti - Nouar (Algeria)

Zahouania (Halima Mazzi) was born in Oran, Algeria from a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother, in 1959. Under the name Chaba Zahouania, she became a popular singer of raï, a hybrid folk-music style.

Zahouania - Warini Werak Tergoud (Algeria)



Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' (Ireland)



Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Crooked Tree (USA)

[fire]

Louise
by Louise
released June 21, 2018
band members:
Clémence Cognet : Voix
Mathilde Kavaix : Voix
Béatrice Terrase : Voix
from France
this was a nice album