What World Music Are You Listening To?

[JemHadar]

Originally Posted by PierreB

Mari Boine : Eight Seasons

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[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by PierreB

Mari Boine : Eight Seasons

Pierre, really excellent!

[bart]

I found this in a jazz magazine, but it is in fact world music.
Spanish, French, English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Excellent!
Reminds me of Lhasa.

Las Lloronas - Soaked
via Qobuz

[bart]

Originally Posted by PierreB

Mari Boine : Eight Seasons

My turn to listen to this.

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

I found this in a jazz magazine, but it is in fact world music.
Spanish, French, English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Excellent!
Reminds me of Lhasa.

Las Lloronas - Soaked
via Qobuz

Bart, I enjoyed that one, thanks

[bart]

Pepe Romero - Flamenco
via Qobuz




Flamenco has always fascinated me, and is quite an experience live.
This is a classic example.

A strictly traditional flamenco record, Pepe Romero's 1987 recording Flamenco! features not only his own sterling guitar work, but also singer Chano Lobato's expressive vocals and, in an inspired touch that not enough flamenco artists have thought of, two genuine flamenco dancers, Maria Magdalena and Paco Romero. Flamenco, after all, is dance music, and as in some forms of English contra dancing, Appalachian clog dancing, and other forms of folk music, the percussive sound of the dancers' shoes (and the female dancer's traditional castanets) is intended as part of the music. As a result, Flamenco! has a vitality and excitement often missing from classical flamenco records, which can sometimes come off as a bit stuffy and overly serious. Lobato's voice, a dusky alto with a beautifully controlled vibrato, suits the material perfectly, capturing the florid theatricality of flamenco music without going over the top. There are undoubtedly better flamenco records than this, but there are few that are as much fun.

© Stewart Mason /TiVo

[joel_hifi]

Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas

Another favourite, another flamenco master, recorded 1986, via Qobuz

[bart]

Lhasa - La Llorona
via Qobuz




She's Canadian, but we can safely post her here.
Very good remaster (better than our CD).

[bart]

Lhasa - Lhasa
via Qobuz




Another fine example of her work.

[PierreB]

Thanks Bart for pointing that.
Yes, Lhasa was a great artist. She’s past away to young.