Exotic vocal

Sussan Deyhim was born and raised in Iran and first became a dancer. She started recording when she moved to the US. This is her best album as far as I know. The entire album is excellent. The song that I posted is called Nocturnal Dialogue.

Orpheus10, I am sure our brains have the capacity to handle many subjects at the same time, but let's stay with exotic singing. I saw many videos with Sussan, the longer she lived outside her place of origin the more she was losing her undeniable talent and sense of the land she came from. She maintain her voice but became trivial and uninteresting, at least to me.

Her name is Azam Ali, born in Iran and raised in India, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR7Le2ownH0

I wouldn't exactly call it exotic but it is certainly unusual. Kim Waters, I think, is her name. Devotion album by Rasa. She sings Indian devotional songs. Good sound quality for a digital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Py_GrNL5g

Lhasa and Sussan have got a lot of pain in them, both of similar and differend kind. You can hear it.

We have a freedom of interpretation of the exotic and have no need to define it in exact terms.
I thought that Ofra was okay, but Sussan's voice is much more powerful and has a lot of depth. She might also be a little frightening.

Same song by Lhasa that you posted, Czarivey. Slightly different take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJaOptRE00E

Czarivey, I of course liked Lhasa de Sela most. She's got charm and sense of sound. Very good.
I wouldn't call it Gypsy song, you know.

Yeah, Lisa Gerrard is mostly excellent, sometimes great. I just thought that everyone knew her singing and didn't mention it.
But Lhasa and Sussan are much more sensual, right? Lisa is quite cold and abstarct if you get into her voice.

Damn, that was supposed to be "abstract" but didn't come out right.

Lhasa was definitely influenced by French chanson and Portugese fado, besides other things. Quite a 'fusion' of a sort.

Nah, Sade's voice is thin and superficial. She's got some of something but you have to guess it more than you can actually hear it.

Oh boy, that I would call exotic. It feels like you are in the middle of Amazonian rainforest. Incredible range.

Western music has very much its origin in the Middle Eastern music, like Westerners themselves. Another root is West African music and rhythms. I am mostly indifferent to Indian and Chinese music with some exceptions, like ragas played by Shankar. Still, won't listen to it much or often. Japanese music doesn't touch me either, I don't get it.

I won't post it here and it is mostly male singing, but try Mongolian throat singing on youtube, there is a lot of that there. Quite unique.