The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

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André Le Meut, born December 4, 1964 in Ploemel, near Carnac, is a renowned Bombard player from Morbihan. He has been champion of Brittany several times, either as a couple or leading the Roñsed-Mor bagad from Locoal-Mendon (1993, 1999, 2003), as well as winner of the 2003 Kan Ar Bobl Grand Prix. Also a singer, he works at the "archives départementales du Morbihan" on the publication of traditional songs.

Philippe Bataille · André Le Meut - J'étais lassée d'être jeune fille (France)

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2020 and the confined years that followed inspired them to bring medieval festivities into the heart of homes by offering unpretentious videos of polyphonic songs from the great notes of the medieval repertoire, such as standards popularized in their time by Malicorne, Mélusine or la Bamboche.

Luc Arbogast, Le Condor, La Rioule des Compagnons du Monde - Réveillez vous belle endormie (France)

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Danûk, a group of exiled Middle Eastern musicians come together on Morîk to reignite a shared consciousness of the value of homeland through the rediscovery of centuries-old sounds. Danûk manifests archived phonograph recordings of Kurdish folklore and wedding songs that have been preserved in wax cylinders and discs for more than a hundred years in The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv and The Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, into phenomenal auditory icons of profound cultural heritage and identity.

Danûk - De Çêkin (Syria)

"O Rouanez Karet an Arvor" is a traditional Breton hymn sung mainly to Sainte Anne d'Auray.

O Rouanez Karet an Arvor (France)

Eliza Amy Forbes Carthy, MBE (born 23 August 1975) is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing the fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson.

The Eliza Carthy Band - Dribbles of Brandy (GB)

In MacColl’s hands, the whole idea of the haar – the sea mist that inspired the album – becomes both metaphorical and literal. Literal in the sense that the visual images created by the title track are recognisably foggy, tricky, slightly eerie; metaphorical in that those same images represent something bigger.

Lauren MacColl - Haar (Scotland)

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