What World Music Are You Listening To?

[bart]

This is better than the album posted earlier:

Terry Callier - What Color Is Love
via Qobuz




I felt it deserved a bigger picture of the cover.

Like the artist himself, the music on this brilliant album defies all categories, embracing Terry Callier's wide range of influences and experiences. Callier's musical kaleidoscope is filled with funk, rock, folk, jazz, and even classical influences. "Dancing Girl" opens the album with Charles Stepney's majestic orchestration. This opus is the album's pinnacle, moving with soft intensity toward soul-stirring crescendos. Songs like "What Color Is Love" and "Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)," an elegant antiwar prayer of confusion, somehow avoid clichés or take them to another level. "You Goin' to Miss Your Candyman" was made popular by Urban Species when they sampled it on "Listen" in the early '90s, and not surprisingly, it sounds better in its original form. No matter where you turn, Callier's passionate voice captures the sweeping drama of the human condition. A lost romantic amid "concrete front yards," this album is a must-have for any music connoisseur.

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[joel_hifi]

Serge, another one of your good suggestions in "What are you listening to tonight", I'd like to add it to the World Music thread as I'm listening to this enjoyable album

[PHC1]

Very interesting listen. It connected with and moved me in an unexpected way.

[Parabellum]

Lévon Minassian - Songs From a World Apart

This is a recent discovery as I have always liked the sound of the duduk instrument in the Gladiator soundtrack. I went to learn more on this instrument and came to this artist. There is something deep in this music that reaches and touches the soul. My mind (or lack of) just roam free when listening to this.

[joel_hifi]

Dhafer Youssef - Sounds of Mirrors

Trippy/hypnotic arrangements!

Recorded in Gothenburg & Mumbai, released in 2018, via Qobuz 24/96

Dhafer Youssef (Tunisia) - Oud
Hüsnü Şenlendirici (Turkey) - Clarinet
Eivind Aarset (Norway) - Guitar
Zakir Hussain (India) - Tabla

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Very interesting listen. It connected with and moved me in an unexpected way.

I can understand Serge!

Mesmerising voice of Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain does it again on tabla and a great orchestration by John McLaughlin

[joel_hifi]

An old favourite... long overdue!

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by Parabellum

Lévon Minassian - Songs From a World Apart

This is a recent discovery as I have always liked the sound of the duduk instrument in the Gladiator soundtrack. I went to learn more on this instrument and came to this artist. There is something deep in this music that reaches and touches the soul. My mind (or lack of) just roam free when listening to this.

Serge, magnifique, nice discovery!

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Dhafer Youssef - Sounds of Mirrors

Trippy/hypnotic arrangements!

Recorded in Gothenburg & Mumbai, released in 2018, via Qobuz 24/96

Dhafer Youssef (Tunisia) - Oud
Hüsnü Şenlendirici (Turkey) - Clarinet
Eivind Aarset (Norway) - Guitar
Zakir Hussain (India) - Tabla

Joel... I liked this!!

[bart]

Originally Posted by Parabellum

Lévon Minassian - Songs From a World Apart




This is a recent discovery as I have always liked the sound of the duduk instrument in the Gladiator soundtrack. I went to learn more on this instrument and came to this artist. There is something deep in this music that reaches and touches the soul. My mind (or lack of) just roam free when listening to this.

Serge, I liked the album and also your poetic description of it.
Merci pour la suggestion!