(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best international music

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|name|The Idan Raichel Project|
|about artist|The Idan Raichel Project (הפרויקט של עידן רייכל) burst onto Israel’s music scene in 2002, changing the face of Israeli popular music and offering a message of love and tolerance that resonated strongly in a region of the world where headlines are too often dominated by conflict. With an enchanting blend of African, Latin American, Caribbean and Middle Eastern sounds coupled with sophisticated production techniques and a spectacular live show, the Idan Raichel Project has become one of the most unexpected success stories in Israeli music history. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/The Idan Raichel Project))|
|track|Bo'ee|
|images|artist image|
|links|discogs, official homepage, youtube, myspace, twitter, track on amazon|
|tags|israeli, world, hebrew, ethiopia|
|similar|Mosh Ben Ari, עברי לידר, Miri Mesika, שלמה ארצי, הדג נחש|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 29,027, lastfm plays: 754,875, youtube plays: 327,543, radd.it score: 14|


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Unfortunately, this interview in entirely in German, but there is some great footage of Sala playing his chosen instrument, the Mixtur-Trautonium. At one point in the film you can even see that he also uses an analog delay unit for added polyphony.

If anyone would like to hear this instrument in all its glory, I recommend Oskar Sala – Subharmonische Mixturen to start. At least two other albums can be had, but this one is my favorite as it contains a piece written for the Trautonium by Paul Hindemith.

Edit: Here's his Electronic Dance suite No. 1 so you can here more of the instrument.

So I've been really loving Scandinavian music over the last year or so, but last fall I came up against a brick wall in figuring out how to accompany it on the accordion - the right hand often imitates or harmonizes with a fiddle, but the rhythmic accents of the Polska in particular are so much more than a standard waltz.

If anyone has been in that state with regards to Swedish music, I would highly recommend checking out the Stabi-Janson duo, a fiddle/accordion duo that plays amazingly well together. Since it's just a duo, the sound is really exposed and there's a lot to discover about how to accompany a Polska, a Schottis and other genres of Swedish music on the accordion, and I spent about a month with this CD in my car trying to internalize it.

This is the titletrack off of the above-linked CD, which is incredibly catchy.

There's not much in the comments other than simply:

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Japanese name for Spirited Away) Inochi no Namae from Relaxing Piano.

I believe it's a reference to this album:

http://www.amazon.com/Relaxing-Piano-Hayao-Miyazaki-Collection/dp/B0047C1KHO

The Relaxing Piano Hayao Miyazaki Collection. It includes this song as #12

It's also available as an album on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtELjQdJzQQ

I love all the Miyazaki movies, and these piano versions are quite wonderful. Thanks for indirectly introducing them to me!

I don't know if this would be too much, but I've wanted it a while. If that's too much, this album would also be appreciated. Basically, muuuuuuuuusic <3

My favorite autumn beverage is tea. I like it when it's nice and chilly, and I'm all toasty in slipper socks and a sweatshirt, and I have a mug of hot tea. It's so nice.

This stuff is AWESOME! I was able to find some of these on Amazon MP3:

• Great Love Songs of M. Ashraf (Instrumental)
  
  
• M. Ashraf At His Best Instrumental
  
  
• In Flight Music Vol -1 - this wasn't in the article, but it has some tracks from The Mods, M. Ashraf, and The Aay Jays.
  
  
• Another Aay Jays track on In Flight Music Vol -2
  
  
• Khyber Mail by Sohail Rana - this guy is awesome, omg check out "Soul Sitar"
  
  
• A Touch Of Class - Nisar Bazmi Instrumental
  
  That's all I could find, but thanks for this really cool link! I had no idea about this music.

I wish there were a better link to this song but I love it: http://www.amazon.com/La-demoiselle-de-Ceret/dp/B003I60080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375505495&sr=8-1&keywords=la+demoiselle+de+ceret

Found it on a stock music site at work one day and fell in love.

Cheap bulk classical:

• The 99 Most Essential Relaxing Classics
  
• 99 Must-Have Chillout Classics
  
• The Greatest Classical Music Ever! 50 Best Relaxing Classical
  
  Lhasa:
  
  
• La Llorona
  
• The Living Road
  
• Lhasa
  
  Ambient 1/Music For Airports by Brian Eno

Sounds loco to me to not have a sitter. But you asked for advice and not judgement, so first off get yourself some Icaros imo. They will help you anchor and chill out if things get rough. The songs are meant to heal, guide and protect. Download some, listen to them. In particular I really like this one and this one is also excellent (and from Shipibo tradition, so it's very different from first one linked)

To some of your Qs:

Dose: Personally, I would take the whole amount in one dose. For me if the first cup doesn't work, the second one rarely helps. You're also a big guy like me and I've always had the feeling like standard cup sizes are a bit too small, so a slightly bigger dose may be just right.

Dieta - refrain from weed for as long as possible before hand. 1 week should be more than enough. You want to have maximum mental and emotional clarity and balance for the experience. Following a Plant based diet for a few days leading up is a great idea. No need to fast day of, in fact you may want to have a bit of something just for the blood sugar, but it's up to you. Just keep it very simple, a bit of fruit and a couple eggs for breakfast works great for me, then fast until it's time to drink, generally once it's as dark outside as it's gonna get.

Noise and waking people up: I hate to break it to you, but doing this in a house full of sleeping people who you don't want to know ... GOOD LUCK. Prepare to puke louder and more intensely than you've perhaps ever imagined puking. Giant, earthquake inducing, waterfall roaring, inter-dimensional puking. Personally I think drinking Aya in this situation is a recipe for unwanted complications. Like, what if these sleeping people awake and start pounding on your door to check on you? How will they understand what you are going through and what you might need from them? Sounds like trouble to me. At any rate you should be prepared for that.

Well, if you're into the more contemporary stuff, I really liked Shtetl Superstars.

There's not THAT much klezmer on it, but there's a lot of dancy type stuff that's klezmer influenced.

I also really liked Ukraine Do Amerika. Again, not strictly klezmer, but pretty damn fun anyway. I also downloaded a few strictly klezmer type comps, but I can't remember what they're called. My advice to you: If you're using torrents, just go to your favorite tracker and search for "klezmer". I found a lot of really good shit that way.