The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[grindy]

Anyone familiar with persian traditional music?
Would love some recommendations.

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by grindy

Anyone familiar with persian traditional music?
Would love some recommendations.

I can't claim to be familiar with it but, oddly enough, I stumbled across this just yesterday while I was surfing for music on YouTube...

[Lisnaholic]

This sub-forum hasn't received a single post in a over a week, but there's plenty of powerful music out there, even if MB turns a deaf ear to it. Here are a two samples from Parno Grazst, a band from Hungary, for example. The first is pretty catchy; the second, rougher round the edges, is live from their home village :-

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[Neapolitan]

Lisnaholic, ... just stumbled across Ali Farka Touré. The first song, Lalayche, reminds me a little bit of Shake Your Hips (Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St.), if you like that kinda stuff you probably like his music.

Ali Farka Touré : Live @ the Watermans Arts Center 1988 (Part 2)

[grindy]

Chirgilchin's Igor Koshkendey paying obvious tribute to Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun's Oidupaa style and accompanying himself on an bayan (a russian accordeon).
Sublimely beautiful stuff.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Lisnaholic, ... just stumbled across Ali Farka Touré. The first song, Lalayche, reminds me a little bit of Shake Your Hips (Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St.), if you like that kinda stuff you probably like his music.

Ali Farka Touré : Live @ the Watermans Arts Center 1988 (Part 2)

^ Thanks, Neapolitan! Yes, I like Ali Farka Touré a lot, especially his songs with long guitar solos. He has a great collaboration album with Ry Cooder called Talking Timbuktu - and if you like desert blues yourself, you might like this album:- http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...no-agadez.html

Ali Farka Touré's son is also a good musician in his own right, highly regarded on the world music scene, as demonstrated by the Tel Aviv Session album. This is also a collaboration album, with pianist Idan Raichel among others:-

Originally Posted by grindy

Chirgilchin's Igor Koshkendey paying obvious tribute to Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun's Oidupaa style and accompanying himself on an bayan (a russian accordeon).
Sublimely beautiful stuff.

^ Great track, grindy! I love the off-the-register singing that comes in at 3:20 !
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I usually avoid the New Age fringes of world music, but I'm prepared to make an exception for Red Buddha and their album China Exotic. (I came across it a while ago when I looking for some Stomu Yamashta material, but, in case you are wondering, there is actually no connection between "Red Buddha" and SY's "Red Buddha Theatre".)

[Frownland]

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar is becoming a new favourite of mine.

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

i'm starting to really dig Death in June and Current 93 (probably going to move onto Sol Invictus soon as well) but i'm looking for some other neo-folk records to check out. i can also get down with some avant-folk if you wanna throw some of that my way too.

[Frownland]

Here's a couple to hold you off until bob. hooks you up with a nice list

[Ol’ Qwerty Bastard]

nice tracks, i'll be checking out the albums shortly. thanks.