Reddit mentions: The best international music

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5. Aocana

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Aocana
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Release dateJuly 2009
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6. Ethiopiques, Vol. 14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax

Ethiopiques, Vol. 14: Negus of Ethiopian Sax
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Release dateJuly 2004
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7. High Moon (Yue Er Gao)

High Moon (Yue Er Gao)
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Release dateJanuary 2007
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9. Jutti Meri Jandiye

Jutti Meri Jandiye
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Release dateOctober 2009
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10. Shine Eye Girl Dub

Shine Eye Girl Dub
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Release dateJanuary 2009
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11. Guayaquil City

Guayaquil City
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Release dateMarch 2013
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12. Hold Me Tight

Hold Me Tight
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Release dateSeptember 2010
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14. Green Hill Celtic Music Sampler 2014

Green Hill Celtic Music Sampler 2014
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Release dateMarch 2014
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u/jitzie · 3 pointsr/AskReddit

my favorite stuff from all over in no particular order:

asa and ayo are female singer/songwriters from africa who sing in english, but are worth a listen.

oliver mtukudzi is from zimbabwe with an incredible timbre to his voice. i love vieux diop, a singer and kora player from mali who's songs i find relaxing and beautiful. vieux farka toureis also from mali, and sometimes he makes you think his guitar is an electric kora.

seconding manu chao, lots of fun.

rodrigo Y gabriela are a guitar duo from mexico city. they do a lot of flamenco type stuff. this is them doing a flamenco stairway to heaven--they also do a couple of metallica songs. willie and lobo are another mexican duo (guitar and violin) that has more of a gypsy feel to their flamenco. they also do some great (wordless) ballads that are excellent for relaxation.

cuba's los van van makes great salsa, but for a really fun latinesque sampler, get this.

zap mama is from belgium, does songs in many languages. I think the older stuff is less "poppy." les nubians is a sister duo that sings french (pop) hip hop. they've worked with erykah badu and the roots.

outback doesn't exist anymore, but it's great didge background music, but if you like the didge, check out this freak. i mean that in a good way.

hamza el din has passed, but his nubian oud music is timeless.

if you like meditating or just zoning out, snatam kaur will take you to another planet--she's the real deal.

celso fonseca, ceu, and bossacucanova are doing contemporary bossa nova. great for lazy afternoons or a romantic dinner.

i really love seu george, but mostly listen to his portuguese bowie covers from 'the life aquatic.'.

you probably know ladysmith black mambazo from putumayo. their songs range from poignant ballads to energetic, makes-you-wanna-jump-around songs. to get a deeper range of the style and their south african contemporaries, check this out. great, great stuff.

i know there's a shit-ton of hawaiian music, but probably someone from there can help you sort out the good from bad. if you want to check out some beautiful tahitian music, emma terangi was one of the best & most beautiful. here she is later in life, but having a good time on a RFO show. looks like a tahitian hee-haw.

lastly, lee everton may be a white guy from switzerland who sings in english, but his reggae fits right in with donavan frankenreiter or jack johnson.

happy listening,

edits: fixed links, formatting, spelling

u/nikiverse · 2 pointsr/yoga

Here's some more (Sorry I dont have access to speakers at work so Im kind of doing this off memory and I just get the songs confused bc there are so few words in most of these songs ..)

Yoga One - cosmopole by Cantoma introduced me to Essarai by Cantoma (which I LOVE too). I didnt get all the songs on this but I did buy a few.

I love Bonobo (Ketto, All In Forms, I cant remmber but maybe Kiara?, and Shadow Tricks <- might be a little "sexual" for a yoga class but I love it!)

Massive Attack's Teardrop, PROTECTION (especially)

Delerium - Remembrance and Silence, Enchanted (which I got off one of my favorite first time Chillout CDs ... )

I think Desert Dwellers have great yoga discs. I recommend Roots, then Waves. I havent really listened to the others though. I get random people consistently complimenting me on my Desert Dwellers discs.

I heard of someone making a hip hop yoga cd with songs like I Like the Way You Move - Outkast, Feel Me Flow by Naughty by Nature, Mr. Wendal by Arrested Dvlpt etc etc

I was taught to have music with no words and relaxing but if your goal is to put a smile on your face and just have fun, then put on some Britney! Who cares right?!

edit: total formatting fail.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/Music

> There is no intrinsic quality to modern American music to me anymore

There's an extremely obvious rebuttal to this. Can you guess what it is? ;)

Clue: I'm not sure I can pick just 1, but of my top 3 albums discovered/bought this year, one is from Senegal. Not eligible for this list anyway, being from 2007, but the point is I can't fathom limiting musical exploration to a given nation state. Another is from still more years back... but it was still brand new to me. So basically, why stick to modern and/or American music, considering it's not like you're already thoroughly familiar with all music made in times past and/or the rest of the world, right?

Btw I guess I may be preaching to the choir here, and that was your whole point, I don't know. I'm not aiming that at you personally. I just thought I'd chime in at this juncture, being as your comment struck a chord in a few ways.

> Musically, it's gotten almost too simple.

This for example... gah... I just commented elsewhere, "I am now forcing myself to youtube stuff from this list ... in the hope of destroying my preconceptions". Hit the first result for Phoenix and had my worst preconceptions confirmed and then some. Piano bashing away on a straight quarter note rhythm, on a chord sequence that sounds vaguely reminiscent of every other pop/rock song of the last 40 years ever, while the bass plucks roots notes on beat one every couple of bars, and I can't even bring myself to care what lyrics the singer is coming out with because he sounds like such a giant watery bedwetter, the drums and overall mood are somewhat jangly and bright but with a seemingly calculated edge of being too cool to try very hard or seem too happy, so no true sense of uncontrolled joie de vivre... it's basically a perfect archetype of everything which powerfully turns me off indie bands... (braces for downvotes)... anyway I let myself rant rather off course, but the point being, yes, it's pretty musically simple and formulaic, with harmony, rhythm and instrumentation alike about as safely familiar as they could possibly be.

However

> I don't think there was a single new album that came out this year that I really enjoyed

I can't really agree with this. Truth be told I'm not the best person to challenge it, because I don't really care about buying new stuff or not, so I've only bought a dozen or so 2009 releases, in between doing tons of fleshing out of past decades' output. Even so, this simply blew me away, this was a delight, this struck me as dubstep's musically richest lp yet, this and this were solid if not exactly vast progression from previous releases, while this and this were only disappointing to me because their respective predecessors were too jawdropping to realistically repeat, not because they were at all unenjoyable.

Of course standard disclaimers apply and I don't pretend to claim anybody else's taste is poor, or any business but their own, or that my taste is awesome, or at all likely to be shared by you or anybody else.

u/chillyfeline · 1 pointr/classicalmusic

This is a great piece called "The High Moon" or "Moon Shining Above." It was originally an engaging chamber piece but here it is transcribed for a full orchestra of traditional Chinese instruments. This is a great recording and I highly recommend it. It is long a long piece but definitely worth the listen. Notice how the underlying harmonic structure moves, and the great dynamic contrasts between the piece's high and low points. Very dramatic and colorful orchestration.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Moon-Yue-Er-Gao/dp/B0010Q9RXO

u/raddit-bot · 1 pointr/listentothis

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u/BostonBun · 5 pointsr/kpop

So I found the inspiration they mention in their video description: Listen to it here: http://www.amazon.com/Jutti-Meri-Jandiye/dp/B002YGZXWI

The original song (the wedding song?) is not as similar as the one above, are there any Pakistani/Indian(?) people in here that can shed some more light on this? Anyway, it is based on a popular song played a lot in Pakistan in the early 80's. Haven't found any translation of the original lyrics so can't comment on that, but I found a blog post mentioning the original (if I'm not mistaken) song: http://taimur.org/2010/07/03/kala-doria/

Best song so far in 2014, I'm loving this, catchy and fun!

u/donkeytime · 3 pointsr/Marijuana
u/rook2pawn · 2 pointsr/leagueoflegends

get this totally free album! you will love this if you liked the braum music. (on amazon music store, its great actually)

Green Hill Celtic Music Sampler 2014


They had the authentic scottish castle music for free for a while as well. as long as you snag them when they are free, they are considered purchased as free.

u/jddennis · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

Julia Ecklar is a filk artist who put out a few albums over the years. I'm a big fan of her album "Divine Intervention." It's a bit older, but the deep cuts are pretty awesome.

Have you looked into nerdcore hip hop at all? It can be sf/f adjacent. Beefy has songs about A Song of Ice and Fire and Ender's Game. MC Frontalot has a Voltron inspired song. MC Chris has a song about Neville Longbotttom (if you're in the U.S. this one may have FCC language issues but it's a fun tune).

If you use spotify, check out the Red Dragon Inn playlist by Daniel D. Petty. It has a lot of songs by artists like Dan the Bard, Malukah, Dan Bull, and others.

For spaghetti western horror rockabilly, check out Ghoultown. If I ever want songs about drinking tequila with the walking dead, they're my go-to.

For some stuff that sounds fantasy soundtrack adjacent, Flook just put out a really great album called Ancora.

EDIT: I nearly forgot! Kenji Kondo, Ryo Natoyama, and Yuki Niino have a really great instrumental album that's instrumental ukulele covers of songs from Studio Ghibli movies. It's called Ukulele Ghibli No Kaze.

u/robalesi · 3 pointsr/vinyl

This is top three all time for me. It's a perfect album.

So what I'm about to say may sound like heresy. But give this album a spin as well. https://www.amazon.com/Radiodread-Easy-Star-All-Stars/dp/B000QQW4FC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496849964&sr=8-1&keywords=radiodread+vinyl

I'm not really one for tribute albums, but for some reason this one just works really well for me. There's also a pretty outstanding lineup of reggae artists on there, including Toots. Radiodread is far better than it has any right to be.

u/JonBB8 · 2 pointsr/Sekiro

I personally really like the music in the game but always looking for stuff like what you posted so thanks for the rec! You probably know Kitaro already?

If you enjoy the koto there’s also the amazing Michio Miyagi ... just nice for a wander round the Fountainhead Palace.

u/erl_queen · 3 pointsr/pagan

Well it's not technically pagan, but I always listen to Christmas Revels cd's this time of year. Especially "In Celebration of the Winter Solstice" and "To Drive the Dark Away", which is Russian/Scandinavian. Yes, there are some Christian carols in there. But there's also a lot of solstice stuff and folk customs like wassailing that have nothing to do with Christianity.

ETA: You can also go see the shows in person if you live near one of the many locations they are performed. I've been several times to the one in PDX and it's fantastic. Each year has a different cultural/historical theme, and a few years back they did one that featured Kukeri mumming costumes which was awesome.

u/Stefanienee · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

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u/remembertosmilebot · 0 pointsr/Retconned

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u/nandhp · 1 pointr/videos

Amazon has it for 99¢: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0063MYIX4/

Spotify also has several versions available for streaming: https://open.spotify.com/search/results/Prisencolinensinainciusol

I know what I'm buying next time I have a $1.00 Amazon MP3 credit.