This could be in "covers" thread but I have decided to post here.
Aşkım bahardı - Pink Martini ft. China Forbes & Storm Large | Live from Bend, Oregon 2017
Just watched this live. She said that this song is 800 years old and no doubt it will make it to the thousand. Wow.
This video may be posted to some other threads ("Folk music", "Even better live", "Interesting new music", etc) but I chose this one. After all it receives good comments from all around the globe.
It is a new addition to my playlist. I ignored it for a long time (my playlist already includes twenty or so songs of the same band).
I caught the Gaelic Storm in a tiny venue this past weekend. They were pretty much as I expected: a high energy, talented, and very fun band playing traditional tunes and a few songs of their own composition. I am linking a couple that are representative. The first seems typical of their stage performance (they have a new fiddle player, though):
The second is their lockdown/isolation/Covid compilation. Cleverly done. (Apparently the fiddle player didn't get the memo that the background must look like a pub. She opted for wine bar vibe)
In the first video, the one from the House of Blues in Chicago, I can't decide whether the guitarist looks most like Steve Bannon or John Cowan; quite a bit like both - until the camera gets closer.
The mix on that is very curious. The harp seems totally muted, or dead, and at times, the fiddle seems likewise. Both those in favor of the whistle. The thought occurs to me that it's been remixed, or overdubbed/lip-synced, or something. I don't *really* think lip-synced, but the mix sure has been fiddled with (pun very much intended).
Not being critical of the band in general, just sayin'.
I had the same impression. He has a live mic, but no sound comes out of the harmonica -- it was totally audible during the concert.
Their live mixing was a bit odd, too (as happens in live shows in small venues). Sometimes the featured instrument would be kept in background. Of course, that wasn't a problem for the drums and bagpipes.
During the show, the fiddler and piper came into the audience and played the entire song from there. When they returned to the stage, the lead singer implored the audience the "keep that damned piper, but we need the fiddler back;" a bit ironic considering that they've had about ten different fiddlers during their tenure as a band.
I think this song (the lyrics of Pir Sultan are older than 500 years and possibly composed by himself then) deserves to be in this thread. A Scotchman with his guitar contributes. What a fusion.
Edit:
After clicking the link, one click led another and landed at this one: Just hanging out
Yet another edit:
Another one from the playlist above: Char
Des'ree - You Gotta Be ('99 Mix) [Video]
Uplifting...we all need more of it.
French "world music" -- from the (U.S.') Show-Me state:
Missouri Creoles speaking Illinois Country French - YouTube
A bit more of the background history, for those interested:
Illinois Country French or "Paw Paw" French in Missouri | Living St. Louis (youtube.com)
Spanish & Arabic go well together.
Have liked Ali Farka Toure for a while now. His most popular song, or most well known probably, is Ai Du, but I used to have several favorites. Some I listened to a lot. One was prob Ai Du, another I seem to have forgotten title, and one was this song, Soukora.
Both Ai Du and Soukora are from his album with Ry Cooder, called “Talking Timbuktu”. Here are links,
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (born December 19, 1969), also known as "The Princess of Jazz", "Die Prinzessin des Jazz", or as "Jazziza", is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugam (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan) with classical and avant-garde influences.
Carmen Aria by Bobby Mc Ferrin & Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. Recorded at Burghausen International Jazz Week 2002.
Good call on the Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder selections, Go. Now Toure is gone..... Cooder is one of those guys I'd love to see the rolodex of. Taj, Bela, Yo-Yo others...
Here's Toure and his band, havin' some fun. You're probably already hep:
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh has a beautiful, powerful voice and is quite talented on the piano. Her compositions are interesting. The fusion of jazz with the traditional music makes for a powerful combination. Thanks, Hop!!
You're welcome Buzz!
Here's another one from her: Dance of Fire
A live psychedelic rock song cover.
A band from Down Under: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
For no reason, when I woke up, a tune started to play in my brain. I only knew some of the lyrics. Google search directed me to this video.
Apologies if I posted this somewhere before; I can't find it if'n I did. And *if* I did, it's been a long while:
Balu Brigada...these guys rock (new to me, I think).
...and the lead looks just like JAGGER.
Young Mick, for sure. The song has overtones of Julian Casablancas (of the strokes) during the verse and Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) in the refrain.
It's that deep bass that sounds like just, IDK, I just vibe with it unlike almost all music <10yrs. old.
Looks like Brewski has good ears for good music: Balu Brigada played Jimmy Kimmel this week: Balu Brigada, "So Cold". Yet another fun band from New Zealand.