The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

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More music from "One Thousand and One Nights".

A reissue of Egyptian producer Ammar El Sherei’s 1976 album Music From the East (Wewantsounds) provides a welcome spotlight for an eccentric but deeply atmospheric blend of Arabic folk compositions with early synth keyboard experimentations, peaking on the 11-minute odyssey Enta Enta.

Ammar el Sherei - Enta Enta (Egypt)

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The entire album was mastered and polished at Studio AS One in Warsaw.The growing love of Poles for deep bass, hazy spaces, drums with expression and the idea of creative processing of music in the studio was confirmed by the second part, and now we hope also by the third part of the cult compilation of Polish dub, which is just ready [2009].

Studio As One feat S. Fijalkowski - w ogrodecku dub (Poland)

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The Warsaw Village Band (WVB) has shed its skin and transformed its sound for “Sploty”. Heavy bass lines, amplified horns, lots of reverb spaces: WVB goes Dub.
The renewed change in sound has to do with the friendship with producer Mariusz Dziurawiec, a.k.a. Mario Activator, and his studio AS One in Warsaw, which has now lasted over two decades. Mariusz is the producing reggae reference in Poland; he has also been at the controls since the first WVB recordings.

Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa/Warsaw Village Band - Siwa zezulejko (Poland)

Alamaailman Vasarat (translated: "The Hammers of the Underworld") is an avant-garde Finnish musical group formed in 1997. Their music is influenced by European folk, klezmer, jazz and metal. Though not officially disbanded the group has been inactive since 2014.

Alamaailman Vasarat - Vasaraasialainen (Finland)


Vasaraasialainen · Alamaailman Vasarat ℗ 2014 Laskeuma Records

After two decades of living in the US and fronting the successful Afro-pop band Elikeh, bandleader Massama Dogo yearned to release music inspired by his home country of Togo. Now splitting his time between Washington, DC and Togo’s capital Lomé, he set out to create a brand new sound that put his roots and culture on the musical map: the alagaa beat.
Combining iconic rhythms of the Ewe, Mina, Ga, and Kabye people, such as kamou, kpanlogo, kinka and bobobo, alagaa blossoms from a complex interplay......The melodies, too, are anchored in Togo’s cultural history, using unique pentatonic scales known as mina or mami, derived from the music of the local Vodún religion and traditions that permeate everyday life in Togo.

DOGO du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band - Zonva (Togo)

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Eddie Palmieri, born in 1936 to Puerto Rican parents in New York's Spanish Harlem district, grew up with Afro-Cuban music. His musical hallmark is his unusually percussive approach to the piano. Palmieri is regarded as the greatest living salsa bandleader and experimental Latin jazz pianist, who was the first Latin musician ever to receive a Grammy over 25 years ago.
The title track Vamonos Pa’l Monte (“Let’s go to the mountains”) is more than an invitation for urban Latinos to attend a rural party. As Ismael Quintana, legendary sonero (singer) and co-writer of the song, explains: “The lyrics were about trying to cope with the injustices in the world. It meant let’s get out of this crazy mess and so much negativity that we live in, and let’s go to the mountains.”

Eddie Palmieri - Vámonos pa'l Monte (USA)

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Started in 2006, the Brooklyn band is made up of musicians from France, Mexico, Venezuela and the US who have been at the forefront of a global movement to revalorize Chicha - psychedelic cumbia from Peru. Like its mentors, Chicha Libre uses surf guitar, organ sounds and Latin percussion to play a mixture of borrowed and homegrown sounds – but its music is a freeform reinvention, not an exercise in nostalgia. The cumbia beats that form the basis of the music are both as inherent and as foreign to them as they were to the Shipibo Indians who first took up the electric guitar.

Chicha Libre - Popcorn Andino (Peru, USA)

Jambú is a plant widely used in Amazonian and Paraense cuisine... Jambú is an exhilarating, cinematic ride into the beauty and heart of what makes Pará's little corner of the Amazon tick. The hip swaying, frantic percussion and big band brass of the mixture of carimbó with siriá, the mystical melodies of Amazonian drums, the hypnotizing cadence of the choirs, and the deep, musical reverence to Afro-Brazilian religions, provided the soundtrack for sweltering nights in the [Belém] city's club district.

Os Muiraquitãns - A Misturada (Brazil)

Choro or chôro is an instrumental Brazilian musical style that probably originated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s as a fusion of popular European music (polka, waltz) and the music of African slaves.

Izaías e Seus Chorões - Pedacinho do Céu (Waldir Azevedo) (Brazil)

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Drawing on the polyrhythmic Arab sea-music fijiri and wedding poetry, the album marks the first time Ahmed has collaborated with other singers. On opener She Stands on the Shore, vocalist Natacha Atlas’s warm tenor interweaves seamlessly with Ahmed’s plaintive trumpet melody, swelling over bowed bass to evoke the undulating waves....
Lyrics: She stands on the sands of an unknown sea, Her land’s a garden in which the sun walks in the morning, The trees create jewels, Pearls and gold.

Yazz Ahmed - She Stands On The Shore (Bahrain, England)


André von Moos, a professional forest ranger and choirmaster, wrote the jodler about 31 years ago for the wedding of a colleague. It soon became very popular in Switzerland.
The lyrics: (translatet from Swiss German) Little stone man (cairn) yodel.
At the top of the mountain in rainy weather and in the sun, there stands a friendly man without legs, is content without belongings and money, at the top of the mountain, stone on stone, he looks down on all people, can live without a comfortable house and home, the whole world belongs to him after all.

Jodlerklub Innertkirchen - Steimandli Jutz (Switzerland)

Hubert von Goisern (born November 17, 1952 in Goisern, Upper Austria; legal name Hubert Achleitner) is an Austrian singer-songwriter and world musician. His mixture of rock music with elements of traditional folk music makes him one of the most important representatives of new folk music, more precisely of alpine rock. The stage name “von Goisern” alludes to his home town.

Hubert von Goisern & die Alpinkatzen - Da Juchitzer (Austria)

Finest handcrafted music from the Alps. Herbert Pixner grew up on a mountain farm in the Passeier Valley in South Tyrol [Italy], where he learned to play seven instruments, partly through lessons and partly self-taught. Since 2007, he has dedicated himself to his work with the Herbert Pixner Project, which has delighted critics and fans alike with its precise playing technique and interesting melodies.

Herbert Pixner Projekt - Morgenrot (Italy)

Michaela studied accordion and elementary music education at the Hohner Conservatory in Trossingen. She completed numerous seminars and advanced training courses on the Styrian harmonica with Herbert Pixner, among others.

Michaela Fürnschlief - Auszug (Germany/Austria)

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Randy

IIRC, he was supposed to open for Johnny Dowd at a show I saw at the Beachland Ballroom in 2022 but cancelled.

[Buckeye Randy]

Originally Posted by Drjohnrock

IIRC, he was supposed to open for Johnny Dowd at a show I saw at the Beachland Ballroom in 2022 but cancelled.

I've seen him several times and every time has been unique. He has an active instagram and he's on spotify. I hope you get to see him someday.

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Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter and was a longtime member of the Allman Brothers Band.
Warren Haynes presents us with a world beyond rock music on his third solo album “Ashes & Dust”. Americana and folklore with an Irish twist dominate “Ashes & Dust”. The band Railroad Earth from New Jersey accompanies Haynes' slide and acoustic guitars with harmonica, mandolin, banjo and fiddle.
Warren Haynes sings rough but softly to the melancholy folk.

Warren Haynes · Railroad Earth - Coal Tattoo (USA)