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A whole lot o’ shanties and jigs for ye mutinous dogs!
Avast! Here be a passle o’ jaunty tunes for ye to be walkin’ the plank t’, arrr!
*ahem*
Sorry, still a bit stuck in Pirate mode. ;)
Well, after a whole night of uploading surrounded by some of my favorite CD's, I have a heap of savory music for you all, which I hope will put a spring in your step and broaden a few horizons. This is an assortment of cuts from my collection, one or two from each album that I picked out. In most cases it was hard to settle on representative tracks, but I figured I’d better start with a varied lot.
Here are the YSI links for the tunes. Click on the "Info" lj-cuts for my thoughts on each of them.
Enjoy!
Guru Brahma - Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, from Shiva Station. Jai Uttal plays an idiosyncratic mix of Hindu sacred chants and modern Western music. Evocative, earthy, sensual, yet passionately devotional as well. This is what I call real church music!
A number of times I’ve mentioned to people that the elves in PJ’s LOTR are not the elves I’ve always envisioned. I’ve been hard put to describe what I did envision, but this cut is the best way I can present what I had in my head to you. Imagine that in Middle Earth, a thousand years had gone past, and the elves had developed what in our world would be called fusion rock. This track is the embodiment of what I would imagine hearing during a warm summer evening at an intimate nightclub in Dol Amroth, showcasing a particularly hot elvish band.
Nwahulwana - Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique, from Trance Planet 1. The Trance Planet Series of CD’s is probably the best collection of world music throughout the 1990’s that I’ve encountered. These albums have turned me on to many wonderful musicians, and I absolutely recommend them. This beautiful and plaintive tune by a Mozambican combo that was involved during the 1970’s in the struggle for independence from Portugal is sung in a variation of Bantu.
Sodade - Cesaria Evora, also from Trance Planet 1. Cesaria Evora comes from the Cape Verdan Islands, a former Portuguese colony off the coast of Senegal. Her voice has a velvety world-weariness which I find both intoxicating and deeply meaningful. I’ve always been fascinated by people whose lives are engraved on their bodies, and that includes singers’ voices. In Evora’s songs, you can hear the years of love, heartache, disappointment and the wisdom she’s gained. The title of this song, “Sodade”, is an apt description of both her style and subject matter, as it is an untranslatable word that comes across in English roughly as “the bittersweet longing for what might have been”.
Through the Veil - Jamshied Sharifi, from Trance Planet 4. Sharifi is an American artist of Iranian descent. This is another hypnotic piece whose sensual sound captures my body and makes me want to move.
Mon Ame Exalte Le Seigneur (My Soul Exalts The Lord) - Keur Moussa, also from Trance Planet 4. In 1963, nine Benedictine monks from a monastery known for centuries for its tradition of plainsong traveled to Senegal and started a church in the remote village of Keur Moussa. The resulting music is a beguiling mix of medieval European melodies with African percussion and rhythmic structures. This is one of those musical wonders that you couldn’t even imagine until you hear it.
Nana Del Caballo Grande (Big Horse Lullaby) - Camaron de la Isla, also from Trance Planet 4. The next few tracks will introduce you to the music I grew up with. My father was a flamenco dancer, and all through my childhood and teen years I heard and knew this form of music. This piece is in the flamenco style known as cante jondo, “deep song”. It’s a lullaby, an example of the kind of outlook found in flamenco lyrics – an intimate knowledge of the deep and abiding tragedies that can happen in ordinary life. A great black horse is struck with what we call hydrophobia, and cannot drink the water it craves. Camaron’s voice, which I heard develop in recordings through the years from a youthful exuberance through stages of illness, addiction and tragedy, captures the terrible sadness both of the horse itself and of the observer, who can do nothing to ease its pain and madness. Camaron died some years ago of a heroin overdose, and the world lost one of its truly great voices. I cried when I heard he had gone.
Entre Dos Aguas (Between Two Waters) - Paco de Lucia, from Entre Dos Aguas. Paco is acknowledged the world over as being the greatest living flamenco guitarist. He’s also a really nice guy. This piece is a flamenco rumba, a style that gained great popularity with the pop band The Gipsy Kings (though what they play isn’t really flamenco; it’s a form of Catalan rumba that’s related to it, though). This piece was released in the 70’s, when Paco was just getting known, and it was his first hit. He’s matured and refined his technique through the years, and is truly phenomenal to listen to. This has been one of my favorite tunes since I was a teen.
Mi Buenos Aires Querido (My Beloved Buenos Aires) - Carlos Gardel, from The Tango Lesson. My mother is from Argentina, the land of the Tango, one of the sensual and precise forms of partner dancing in existence. There is a whole huge culture surrounding this form of dance, whose music is filled with the flirting, longing and pain that comes with love and desire. Carlos Gardel is one of the legendary masters of Tango singing, and this is one of his most well-known songs.
Libertango - Astor Piazolla, also from The Tango Lesson. From a classic tango, we turn to a modern cut, the Libertango. I love the jauntily aggressive air of this piece; it's easy to see the dancers engaged in the loving battle of the dance!
Oglan Boyun - Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek, from Fire Dance. Growing up with flamenco gave me an instinctive sympathy for Middle Eastern music, whose influence is so woven into flamenco through its being a Romani form, and which I did not delve into until the late 1980's. Keane and Tekbilek were my first introduction. They first got together to record the soundtrack for a BBC series on Suleyman the Magnificent, and they've created several stunning albums since. This tune in particular I find gorgeous; it evokes for me the feeling of being in love – the celebration and sensual joy that fills the world when your heart is captivated. The cut opens rather abruptly because on the album there is another, slow quiet song that fades into it.
Amarain (Two Moons) - Amr Diab, from Arabic Groove. The Putumayo label is another great resource for anyone interested in exploring world music. Arabic Groove is an album of Middle Eastern dance tunes, and this lyrical mixture of flamenco and Lebanese music is one of the best cuts on a great album.
Moi Et Toi (Me And You) - Ali Abdel Slimani, also from Arabic Groove. This is the first tune on Arabic Groove, and it hooked me into buying the album. This tune is heavily influenced by Western-style club music, and infectious is not nearly a good enough word for it. It makes me bounce like a bouncy thing.
Trois Fois Trois (City Version) - 3 Mustaphas 3, from Heart Of Uncle. Whee! There are some musical groups that can best be described as "cheerful", and 3 Mustaphas 3 would fall into that category, I think. Their music is a hodgepodge of Middle Eastern, European and South American styles, and they sing in several languages. This merengue is bright, flirty and contains some wonderfully precise rhythmic adventuring. Light the cigarette and to hell with the world!
Astrae - Vas, from Sunyata. To all you LOTR fans, the best way I can describe the music of Vas is to tell you that for me, this is the music of the Haradrim, evoking visions of high-vaulted desert temples lined with delicate mosaics, and filled with the sound of dark-eyed priestesses singing hymns and prayers to the Star Goddess. Azam Ali's pure, angelic voice sings in a language of her own invention, and Greg Ellis's drumming and percussion are extraordinary. I got to know these two amazing talents when I worked in the mid-90's at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, where Azam was working, and got to see them start their musical careers with the release of Sunyata. This is my favorite cut off the album - deep, sensual, hypnotic.
Mehendi - Simran & Tripat, from Bhangra . Ever since I saw The Guru, I've been besotted with Punjabi pop music. This hot, bouncy, cheerfully sexy musical style is just the greatest thing since sliced bread, for my money. In this song Simran & Tripat, a duo of sisters, sing about mehndi, the plant-based substance used to dye women's skin for weddings and special celebrations.
Amampondo - Miriam Makeba, from Welela . From India to Africa: Miriam Makeba, known throughout the world as "Mama Africa" and the "Empress of African song", has been singing about the trials and tribulations of South Africa for many, many years. Because she testified about apartheid in 1963, she was barred from her native home and only returned in the late 80's. She's one of the world's musical treasures.
Guzophela - Zap Mama, from Adventures in Afropea 1 – Zap Mama. This group of five women from Africa and the Middle East sing in an amazing mix of styles, everything from Pygmy to medieval Spanish. Their first couple of albums were completely a cappella, their talented voices providing all the instrumentation they needed. This is an anti-apartheid song, written and translated into Zulu by Marie Daulme, the founder of ZM.
Plekete - Zap Mama, also from Adventures in Afropea 1 – Zap Mama. AiA1ZM was Zap Mama's debut album, and among the lovely melodic and percussive explorations are some surprisingly witty creations. Plekete is described on the liner notes as "motor-car polyrhythm". The cut starts with a phone call, after which the girls take off on a road trip, and if you listen carefully, you can hear in the intricately woven vocal gymnastics all the typical little events of a car ride: passing autos, impertinent drivers, near-miss collisions, even the car radio being fiddled with, and it all ends in an unexpected event. Great inventive fun!
Azuca de Cana (Cane Sugar) - Eva Ayllon, from Afro-Peruvian Classics – The Soul of Black Peru. I'll bet you didn't know there was a black subculture in Peru. I sure didn't. But there is, and the music that comes out of it is enchanting. This album is chock full of goodies, this one being my favorite. It's a sexy, seductive number wherein a young woman muses on the great evening she's gonna have at home with her man, once they finish work in the sugar cane fields. You can just hear how much she likes to fuck him. >:)
Sir Mulberry Hawk - The Royal Shakespeare Company Orchestra, from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. How about a complete and utter change of pace? In 1986, the RSC produced their massive, nine-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens's popular tale, and what a production it was! One of the best things about it was the music written by Stephen Oliver, that captured so well the style of music in Dickens's time. As those of you who saw the 2002 movie version know, Sir Mulberry Hawk (don't you just LOVE Dickens's witty way with names?) is a lecherous, violent, cold-hearted libertine who despite his evil ways wears a carefully tended veneer of civility, the better to ensnare the hapless with his wiles. This snaky, evil waltz is his theme.
Emperor's Mare - Bela Fleck and Jie-Bing Chen, from Tabula Rasa. Good ol' Bela Fleck, the guy's a marvel. On Tabula Rasa he teams up with Jie-Bing Chen and V.M. Bhatt to create a wonderfully inventive mix of Hindu, Chinese and American Southern music. Bela of course plays the banjo, and on this cut he's joined by Jie-Bing, who plays the erh-hu, a one-stringed instrument played with a bow. This traditional tune is from China, and I can just see the emperor's proud, high-stepping mare, all decked out in her gold-trimmed saddle and red tassles. LINK NOW FIXED
Le Batteux / Le Grand Gigue Simple - La Bottine Souriante, from Chic 'N Swell. One of the reasons I lost interest in most rock'n'roll and other such stuff is that I got tired of the sort of whiny self-indulgence inherent to my ears in a lot of it. I like music that makes me feel happy, that makes me want to smile and enjoy life. French-Canadian folk music can pretty much be defined as happy music that makes you want to smile and enjoy life, and La Bottine Souriante (The Smiling Boot) were the leaders of the French-Canadian folk revival. This is one of their earliest albums, from back in the late 70's, and a treasured part of my collection since then. When I feel downtrodden, these guys can pick me up off the floor.
Tchavolo Swing - Dorado et Tchavalo, from Latcho Drom. In 1993, a film by Tony Gatlif detailing the history of the Gypsies was released. Called Latcho Drom (Safe Journey) it traces the steps of the Gypsy Road, from Rajasthan through the Middle East, Central Europe, Europe and ending in Spain, and tells its story entirely in the music of the diverse groups along the way. This cut, Tchavolo Swing, finds a group of Rom musicians in a French café, beguiling the patrons with an impromptu jam session worthy of the great Django Reinhardt.
Gracias A La Vida (Thanks Be To Life) - Mercedes Sosa, once again from Trance Planet 1. Back to TP1, and back to my roots again. Mercedes Sosa is an Argentine singer, one of the greatest of the Nueva Cancion (New Song) artists who risked their lives and freedom singing about the terrible injustices under the criminal regimes in Argentina, Chile and elsewhere in South America. She eventually emigrated to Madrid, Spain, whence she continued to speak and sing against the terror. This song is a testament to the joy to be found in life even in the midst of dark times.
Whew! Well, that's it for now. This is a pretty nice intro to the kinds of things I've got. It's not a huge collection like Elijah's, but it's very varied, and I've got many more interesting albums. But I thought I'd better stop here before I overwhelmed all of you.
If anyone would like me to post the entirety of any of these albums, just ask. I’ll be more than happy to do so. Tomorrow I'll endeavor to post lyrics and translations for the songs (those I can dig up), but it's now 3:30 in the morning, and I'm gonna hit the hay.
Enjoy! :)
*ahem*
Sorry, still a bit stuck in Pirate mode. ;)
Well, after a whole night of uploading surrounded by some of my favorite CD's, I have a heap of savory music for you all, which I hope will put a spring in your step and broaden a few horizons. This is an assortment of cuts from my collection, one or two from each album that I picked out. In most cases it was hard to settle on representative tracks, but I figured I’d better start with a varied lot.
Here are the YSI links for the tunes. Click on the "Info" lj-cuts for my thoughts on each of them.
Enjoy!
Guru Brahma - Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, from Shiva Station. Jai Uttal plays an idiosyncratic mix of Hindu sacred chants and modern Western music. Evocative, earthy, sensual, yet passionately devotional as well. This is what I call real church music!
A number of times I’ve mentioned to people that the elves in PJ’s LOTR are not the elves I’ve always envisioned. I’ve been hard put to describe what I did envision, but this cut is the best way I can present what I had in my head to you. Imagine that in Middle Earth, a thousand years had gone past, and the elves had developed what in our world would be called fusion rock. This track is the embodiment of what I would imagine hearing during a warm summer evening at an intimate nightclub in Dol Amroth, showcasing a particularly hot elvish band.
Nwahulwana - Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Mocambique, from Trance Planet 1. The Trance Planet Series of CD’s is probably the best collection of world music throughout the 1990’s that I’ve encountered. These albums have turned me on to many wonderful musicians, and I absolutely recommend them. This beautiful and plaintive tune by a Mozambican combo that was involved during the 1970’s in the struggle for independence from Portugal is sung in a variation of Bantu.
Sodade - Cesaria Evora, also from Trance Planet 1. Cesaria Evora comes from the Cape Verdan Islands, a former Portuguese colony off the coast of Senegal. Her voice has a velvety world-weariness which I find both intoxicating and deeply meaningful. I’ve always been fascinated by people whose lives are engraved on their bodies, and that includes singers’ voices. In Evora’s songs, you can hear the years of love, heartache, disappointment and the wisdom she’s gained. The title of this song, “Sodade”, is an apt description of both her style and subject matter, as it is an untranslatable word that comes across in English roughly as “the bittersweet longing for what might have been”.
Through the Veil - Jamshied Sharifi, from Trance Planet 4. Sharifi is an American artist of Iranian descent. This is another hypnotic piece whose sensual sound captures my body and makes me want to move.
Mon Ame Exalte Le Seigneur (My Soul Exalts The Lord) - Keur Moussa, also from Trance Planet 4. In 1963, nine Benedictine monks from a monastery known for centuries for its tradition of plainsong traveled to Senegal and started a church in the remote village of Keur Moussa. The resulting music is a beguiling mix of medieval European melodies with African percussion and rhythmic structures. This is one of those musical wonders that you couldn’t even imagine until you hear it.
Nana Del Caballo Grande (Big Horse Lullaby) - Camaron de la Isla, also from Trance Planet 4. The next few tracks will introduce you to the music I grew up with. My father was a flamenco dancer, and all through my childhood and teen years I heard and knew this form of music. This piece is in the flamenco style known as cante jondo, “deep song”. It’s a lullaby, an example of the kind of outlook found in flamenco lyrics – an intimate knowledge of the deep and abiding tragedies that can happen in ordinary life. A great black horse is struck with what we call hydrophobia, and cannot drink the water it craves. Camaron’s voice, which I heard develop in recordings through the years from a youthful exuberance through stages of illness, addiction and tragedy, captures the terrible sadness both of the horse itself and of the observer, who can do nothing to ease its pain and madness. Camaron died some years ago of a heroin overdose, and the world lost one of its truly great voices. I cried when I heard he had gone.
Entre Dos Aguas (Between Two Waters) - Paco de Lucia, from Entre Dos Aguas. Paco is acknowledged the world over as being the greatest living flamenco guitarist. He’s also a really nice guy. This piece is a flamenco rumba, a style that gained great popularity with the pop band The Gipsy Kings (though what they play isn’t really flamenco; it’s a form of Catalan rumba that’s related to it, though). This piece was released in the 70’s, when Paco was just getting known, and it was his first hit. He’s matured and refined his technique through the years, and is truly phenomenal to listen to. This has been one of my favorite tunes since I was a teen.
Mi Buenos Aires Querido (My Beloved Buenos Aires) - Carlos Gardel, from The Tango Lesson. My mother is from Argentina, the land of the Tango, one of the sensual and precise forms of partner dancing in existence. There is a whole huge culture surrounding this form of dance, whose music is filled with the flirting, longing and pain that comes with love and desire. Carlos Gardel is one of the legendary masters of Tango singing, and this is one of his most well-known songs.
Libertango - Astor Piazolla, also from The Tango Lesson. From a classic tango, we turn to a modern cut, the Libertango. I love the jauntily aggressive air of this piece; it's easy to see the dancers engaged in the loving battle of the dance!
Oglan Boyun - Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek, from Fire Dance. Growing up with flamenco gave me an instinctive sympathy for Middle Eastern music, whose influence is so woven into flamenco through its being a Romani form, and which I did not delve into until the late 1980's. Keane and Tekbilek were my first introduction. They first got together to record the soundtrack for a BBC series on Suleyman the Magnificent, and they've created several stunning albums since. This tune in particular I find gorgeous; it evokes for me the feeling of being in love – the celebration and sensual joy that fills the world when your heart is captivated. The cut opens rather abruptly because on the album there is another, slow quiet song that fades into it.
Amarain (Two Moons) - Amr Diab, from Arabic Groove. The Putumayo label is another great resource for anyone interested in exploring world music. Arabic Groove is an album of Middle Eastern dance tunes, and this lyrical mixture of flamenco and Lebanese music is one of the best cuts on a great album.
Moi Et Toi (Me And You) - Ali Abdel Slimani, also from Arabic Groove. This is the first tune on Arabic Groove, and it hooked me into buying the album. This tune is heavily influenced by Western-style club music, and infectious is not nearly a good enough word for it. It makes me bounce like a bouncy thing.
Trois Fois Trois (City Version) - 3 Mustaphas 3, from Heart Of Uncle. Whee! There are some musical groups that can best be described as "cheerful", and 3 Mustaphas 3 would fall into that category, I think. Their music is a hodgepodge of Middle Eastern, European and South American styles, and they sing in several languages. This merengue is bright, flirty and contains some wonderfully precise rhythmic adventuring. Light the cigarette and to hell with the world!
Astrae - Vas, from Sunyata. To all you LOTR fans, the best way I can describe the music of Vas is to tell you that for me, this is the music of the Haradrim, evoking visions of high-vaulted desert temples lined with delicate mosaics, and filled with the sound of dark-eyed priestesses singing hymns and prayers to the Star Goddess. Azam Ali's pure, angelic voice sings in a language of her own invention, and Greg Ellis's drumming and percussion are extraordinary. I got to know these two amazing talents when I worked in the mid-90's at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, where Azam was working, and got to see them start their musical careers with the release of Sunyata. This is my favorite cut off the album - deep, sensual, hypnotic.
Mehendi - Simran & Tripat, from Bhangra . Ever since I saw The Guru, I've been besotted with Punjabi pop music. This hot, bouncy, cheerfully sexy musical style is just the greatest thing since sliced bread, for my money. In this song Simran & Tripat, a duo of sisters, sing about mehndi, the plant-based substance used to dye women's skin for weddings and special celebrations.
Amampondo - Miriam Makeba, from Welela . From India to Africa: Miriam Makeba, known throughout the world as "Mama Africa" and the "Empress of African song", has been singing about the trials and tribulations of South Africa for many, many years. Because she testified about apartheid in 1963, she was barred from her native home and only returned in the late 80's. She's one of the world's musical treasures.
Guzophela - Zap Mama, from Adventures in Afropea 1 – Zap Mama. This group of five women from Africa and the Middle East sing in an amazing mix of styles, everything from Pygmy to medieval Spanish. Their first couple of albums were completely a cappella, their talented voices providing all the instrumentation they needed. This is an anti-apartheid song, written and translated into Zulu by Marie Daulme, the founder of ZM.
Plekete - Zap Mama, also from Adventures in Afropea 1 – Zap Mama. AiA1ZM was Zap Mama's debut album, and among the lovely melodic and percussive explorations are some surprisingly witty creations. Plekete is described on the liner notes as "motor-car polyrhythm". The cut starts with a phone call, after which the girls take off on a road trip, and if you listen carefully, you can hear in the intricately woven vocal gymnastics all the typical little events of a car ride: passing autos, impertinent drivers, near-miss collisions, even the car radio being fiddled with, and it all ends in an unexpected event. Great inventive fun!
Azuca de Cana (Cane Sugar) - Eva Ayllon, from Afro-Peruvian Classics – The Soul of Black Peru. I'll bet you didn't know there was a black subculture in Peru. I sure didn't. But there is, and the music that comes out of it is enchanting. This album is chock full of goodies, this one being my favorite. It's a sexy, seductive number wherein a young woman muses on the great evening she's gonna have at home with her man, once they finish work in the sugar cane fields. You can just hear how much she likes to fuck him. >:)
Sir Mulberry Hawk - The Royal Shakespeare Company Orchestra, from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. How about a complete and utter change of pace? In 1986, the RSC produced their massive, nine-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens's popular tale, and what a production it was! One of the best things about it was the music written by Stephen Oliver, that captured so well the style of music in Dickens's time. As those of you who saw the 2002 movie version know, Sir Mulberry Hawk (don't you just LOVE Dickens's witty way with names?) is a lecherous, violent, cold-hearted libertine who despite his evil ways wears a carefully tended veneer of civility, the better to ensnare the hapless with his wiles. This snaky, evil waltz is his theme.
Emperor's Mare - Bela Fleck and Jie-Bing Chen, from Tabula Rasa. Good ol' Bela Fleck, the guy's a marvel. On Tabula Rasa he teams up with Jie-Bing Chen and V.M. Bhatt to create a wonderfully inventive mix of Hindu, Chinese and American Southern music. Bela of course plays the banjo, and on this cut he's joined by Jie-Bing, who plays the erh-hu, a one-stringed instrument played with a bow. This traditional tune is from China, and I can just see the emperor's proud, high-stepping mare, all decked out in her gold-trimmed saddle and red tassles. LINK NOW FIXED
Le Batteux / Le Grand Gigue Simple - La Bottine Souriante, from Chic 'N Swell. One of the reasons I lost interest in most rock'n'roll and other such stuff is that I got tired of the sort of whiny self-indulgence inherent to my ears in a lot of it. I like music that makes me feel happy, that makes me want to smile and enjoy life. French-Canadian folk music can pretty much be defined as happy music that makes you want to smile and enjoy life, and La Bottine Souriante (The Smiling Boot) were the leaders of the French-Canadian folk revival. This is one of their earliest albums, from back in the late 70's, and a treasured part of my collection since then. When I feel downtrodden, these guys can pick me up off the floor.
Tchavolo Swing - Dorado et Tchavalo, from Latcho Drom. In 1993, a film by Tony Gatlif detailing the history of the Gypsies was released. Called Latcho Drom (Safe Journey) it traces the steps of the Gypsy Road, from Rajasthan through the Middle East, Central Europe, Europe and ending in Spain, and tells its story entirely in the music of the diverse groups along the way. This cut, Tchavolo Swing, finds a group of Rom musicians in a French café, beguiling the patrons with an impromptu jam session worthy of the great Django Reinhardt.
Gracias A La Vida (Thanks Be To Life) - Mercedes Sosa, once again from Trance Planet 1. Back to TP1, and back to my roots again. Mercedes Sosa is an Argentine singer, one of the greatest of the Nueva Cancion (New Song) artists who risked their lives and freedom singing about the terrible injustices under the criminal regimes in Argentina, Chile and elsewhere in South America. She eventually emigrated to Madrid, Spain, whence she continued to speak and sing against the terror. This song is a testament to the joy to be found in life even in the midst of dark times.
Whew! Well, that's it for now. This is a pretty nice intro to the kinds of things I've got. It's not a huge collection like Elijah's, but it's very varied, and I've got many more interesting albums. But I thought I'd better stop here before I overwhelmed all of you.
If anyone would like me to post the entirety of any of these albums, just ask. I’ll be more than happy to do so. Tomorrow I'll endeavor to post lyrics and translations for the songs (those I can dig up), but it's now 3:30 in the morning, and I'm gonna hit the hay.
Enjoy! :)
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I really like a lot of world music and my collection was sadly lacking...in fact I have an Angelique Kidjo cd, the best of the Gypsy Kings and a Yousou N'dour song and that's about it! My dad absolutely loves that type of music too, so I can't wait to share these songs with him :)
I loved all the notes you put with the tracks too, it was great learning about the songs and you, so thank you for doing that!!
*big hugs*
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I hope you enjoy the tunes. :)
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So far, so good. :)
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Serai, this is really a gift - and you generosity in sharing these will be turned into a gift for my daughters, both of whom love interesting music (and one of whom has a birthday in about a week). I greedily downloaded all - will print out your album notes - and I know that they will be delighted!
Thank you. Can't wait to listen.
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Thank you...
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Thanks for the headsup on Miriam's retirement. I hope I'll get a chance to see her before she goes!