The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[rostasi]

So, did you like the cimbalom solo?

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by rostasi

Very nice addition of a cimbalom solo @ ca. 3 minutes

^ Yes, I really liked the track, and especially the short cimbalom solo you pointed out. Thanks.

To help this thread along, I would usually add a recommendation of my own now, but recently I've hit a bit of a dry patch with folk/world music. I haven't come across anything inspiring for a while. Sorry.

[rostasi]

I'll help you out some...



Laboratorium Pieśni, a female polyphonic group from Poland (don't tell Goofle!).



and also new; from Leipzig:

[Frownland]

[Lilja]

[Lisnaholic]

One of the secret pleasures of being a music nerd is hearing the surprise of other people when they realise what you're listening to. That happened to me while listening to JAJA - my son said, "What on earth was that music you were just playing!"

So thanks for that moment, rostasi, and thanks for uploading the JAJA tracks, which I really liked. They inspired me to look at a file of freak folk music that dankrsta posted here a while ago. A lot of the tracks in her file do a great job of conjuring up a spooky atmosphere, but then don't seem to go anywhere musically; as songs, they are about as satisfying as a cup of Monty Python tea, ("A cup of cold tea. Without milk. Or sugar. Or tea.") This track, by Fursaxa, is about the best one in her file imo:-


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Lilja: That girl's voice is excellent, and I love the way the cows - and the tinkling of the cowbells - slowly advance from the background. How will she get that effect when she's performing live I wonder? If she takes those cows on tour with her, they're really going to trash the hotel rooms.
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The pursuit for "the oldest song in the world" is pretty intriguing. Here are me, Stephen and misspoptart hot on the trail:-
http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...ught-life.html

[rostasi]

Cumbia meets Raggamuffin:

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

The pursuit for "the oldest song in the world" is pretty intriguing. Here are me, Stephen and misspoptart hot on the trail:-
http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...ught-life.html

Ah I was trying to find one of the old music threads to post that in but wasn't having much luck.

Love Fursaxa btw.

[Chiomara]

How odd, I was listening to versions of that Hurrian hymn non-stop last week! I came across it while searching for Sumerian (and Assyrian) music on youtube.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

To help this thread along, I would usually add a recommendation of my own now, but recently I've hit a bit of a dry patch with folk/world music. I haven't come across anything inspiring for a while. Sorry.

I'm in the same situation. I require my folk music to leave me feeling as though I've been kicked in the gut (in a good way) afterward, and I've just not been finding that lately. Overall I have slightly better luck (at least in terms of not being bored to tears) with Slavic folk as well as African and middle eastern folk/blues. Warsaw Village Band (the one I showed you a while back) is the last one I found that I truly loved.

And sadly it seems a lot of freak folk veers a bit too close to forgettable coffee shop background music.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by rostasi

Cumbia meets Raggamuffin:

^ Well, that is some severely de-constructed cumbia rostasi! It certainly doesn't resemble the cumbia that is a radio staple here in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Chiomara

I'm in the same situation. I require my folk music to leave me feeling as though I've been kicked in the gut (in a good way) afterward, and I've just not been finding that lately. Overall I have slightly better luck (at least in terms of not being bored to tears) with Slavic folk as well as African and middle eastern folk/blues. Warsaw Village Band (the one I showed you a while back) is the last one I found that I truly loved.
And sadly it seems a lot of freak folk veers a bit too close to forgettable coffee shop background music.

^ HaHa! That is a great description! The difficulty is finding anything, though.
Petula07, who used to post here ages ago, strongly recommended the band Altan Urag from Mongolia, and in return I recommended Andrey Vinogradov to her. I hope one of them kicks you in the gut, Chiomara - in the nicest possible way of course.

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P.S. Yes, surely there is some angry freak-folk genius who does more with the genre than play coffee-shop background music, or horror-movie soundtrack music, which is what it makes me think of usually. Perhaps I'll check out some more Fursaxa as Frownland speaks highly of them.