What World Music Are You Listening To?

[joel_hifi]

Teresa Cristina - Canta Cartola

A beautiful voice in the tradition of the Musica Popular Brasileira (MBP)

Recorded live in Rio de Janeiro in 2015, Nonesuch Records via Qobuz

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Listened again to this:

Mamadou Diabaté - Douga Mansa
via Qobuz




I've always loved West-African music.
This album is a good example of how good it can get.
Think blues (which is rooted in it), but a bit more cheerful, think raga (Indian) but a bit more 'warm' and from the heart and belly, think even minimalist but again not only cerebral.
You have to learn to listen to it, but once you allow it to enter into your system, it gives pure ecstasy, without side effects.

Good recording too.

Ecstatic indeed!!

[Parabellum]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Joël Grare - Paris • Istanbul • Shanghai

Subtile fusion of East meets West, by a very talented percussionist

Excellent recording, released in 2008

Wow, what a great discovery for me! Thanks for sharing.

[Parabellum]

World music is one of my favorite genre (if that's a genre anyway), along with movie soundtracks. Here are a few that I like.

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Selection
Adam Ben Ezra - Pin Drop

Very well recorded too!

[Parabellum]

Basically, everything Loreena McKennitt makes... Celtic/Arabian folk

[Parabellum]

Not sure if this fits but in the asian genre, a few soundtracks come to mind...

The Grandmaster - Shigeru Umebayashi
The House of Flying Daggers - Shigeru Umebayashi
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
Hero - Tan Dun

[Parabellum]

Another one I really like in the arabian folk, Déserts from Claire Gignac. Excellent recording.

[PierreB]

Don’t know if it’s ok but I love this cd.

Stephen Micus : the Garden of Mirrors (ECM 1632)

[Andik777]

Armenian Music

ARPI

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Joël Grare - Paris • Istanbul • Shanghai

Subtile fusion of East meets West, by a very talented percussionist

Excellent recording, released in 2008

Just streamed this.
I like it!
One of the guests, Claire Lefilliâtre, is one of my absolute favourite sopranos!

This recording is a manifesto: modernism, culture, temporality, style, improvisation are all concepts with which Joël Grare plays, like a juggler. At a time of globalisation, of standardisation of cultures, this disc lets us hear the vision of the world of one man, at one given time. The Paris-Istambul-Shanghaï Ensemble (Chinese violin, theorbo, bass and percussions) forms the musical base of this invitation to travel. The guests, such as Claire Lefilliâtre, contribute their personnality by taking up the learned or popular themes. This "group", somewhere between a chamber music ensemble and a traditional one, plays standards like Jazzmen. Their standards? Magnificent themes stemming from Spain, Turkey, China, ancient music...Analysing these melodies well beyond their borders, thoroughly enjoying them to interpret them better, improvising, composing, whether or not in the style of their country or their period, following his mood, the taste of tea, the moment; welcome to the world of Joël Grare.