Anyone interested in world music?


John McLaughlin with Shiv Kumar Sharma. What an interesting and sophisticated performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p71QK5TZDCc

Perhaps others can post something too.
inna

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I know Dead Can Dance well. Yulunga is great, so is Indus.

This is similar to Indus, but I like it even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhoHQEGGUc
Recently found this. Ponty's violin really sings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytrU587-C50
It reminds me both Portuguese fado and Russian romance.
Too bad I can't understand a word.
Pardon my ignorance, where does it come from? It's certainly not Greek.
I never heard this form before.
Alexatpos, yes of course it was addressed to you. I read the article that you provided, thank you. Very interesting and not quite known origin but this form appears to have many influences. In this sense - true world music.
Very intense, very dark, a lot of pain. Difficult to perform.Impressive.
Orpheus10, I like his trumpet. He definitely studied Miles Davis but has his own style. Very good. I thought that he should play with stronger musicians, especially drums and bass - they just don't cut it and probably annoy him.
Ha! This is cool! She is pretty good. Again, better musicians needed, much better. Those guys just..well, that's not how you play fandango.
Camaron was Andalucian Gypsy, and Paco de Lucia's mother was Potuguese. Flamenco also has very strong Moorish and Persian influences.
I would say that sevdah is more complex than blues.
But I'll admit I prefer Spain's flamenco to both. At his best El Camaron de la Isla was incomparable. !973, 1974, 1975, 1977 albums are considered masterpieces. If I had to choose one, this would probably be 1977 'Castillo de Arena'. Paco de Lucia on guitarra on all these albums.
By the way, if someone wants a record, and they are very rare, there is one right now on ebay. I have three copies of it already, none is Mint though.
Orpheus10, no thank you, I very much prefer sevdah. You can't really compare.
Frogman, you got lucky. I was considering getting the fourth copy. After all that vinyl is not of good quality, I guess.
There is no definitive answer. And the word 'like' is too general and superficial to reflect the meaning. We resonate, respond emotionally in a particular way because it touches us on deeper layers of our psyche.
My 'education and influences and exposure' had nothing to do directly with Spanish, Indian, Middle Eastern and other cultures. Yet I respond to some music and other things coming from those traditions.
Anyway, originaly we are all from Africa by way of Middle and Near East. This would explain certain connectedness that we have in us.
Alexatpos, thank you, but I believe that I will have more understanding of savdeh without the translation, it is extremely difficult to translate poetry, especially when languages are quite far from each other.
A lot of jazz comes from Europe as well. Yes, of course that was flamenco. I couldn't find quickly a tango clip where the dancers were better, though I saw a few. Not all tango comes from Argentina either. And as far as I heard, Miles Davis was in fact more popular in Europe and Japan than in America.
Anyway, disagreements are just fine.
Tango, a lot comes from Argentina.
Sorry, Frogman, they don't really dance well, especially the woman.
There is an overall excellent album by Al di Meola where he plays with Dino Saluzzi on accordion. It's titled " World of the Immigrants ". Digital recording, a very good one.