Good World Music Songs?

[gabethedestroyr]

Hey guys,
I am currently in a world music class at my school, and they're letting me choose one song. I was hoping some people here could help me choose a song. There are only three requirements:
1: It must be from outside of the US
2: It must sound like world music (example: no Daft punk)
3: It must have a fun bass part
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance-gabe

[Snarf]

Alegria by Cirque du Soleil (Rene Dupere)

You could try The Rain Must Fall by Yanni, which has Ric Fierabracci playing some great, probably improvised lines throughout.

Dean Saor an Spiorad and, well, just about anything by Capercaillie. John Saich is a monster.

[gabethedestroyr]

Thanks! I'm considering all of those... Any more suggestions?

[gabethedestroyr]

bump.. anyone else with ideas?

[xlows]

Check out the CD Mali to Memphis. It's pretty awesome.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

"Enchanted" by Franc O'Shea. Here's his MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/francosheamusic

One of my favorite fretless players- the bassline in this flamenco-type song is killer. You can hear part of it in his music sampler, and you can probably download just the one song from Itunes/CDBaby or similar.

[pfschim]

a few suggestions

check out Kanda Bongo Man or any of the soukous music bands from West Africa. Lots of bands and tunes to choose from.

Brazillian/Portugese Choro is also a cool world music form and has neat, definitely non western, basslines that are also not basic/typical latin grooves.

Turkish music is a wild world music form. Alternating time signatures with crazy modal and semi-tonal harmonic structure. Very challenging bass lines and a very weird, non-western, but burning groove. Very hypnotic.

I play a combination of world music, jazz, funk and blues, and have really stretched my musical vision learning tunes from these and other cool global musical forms.

good luck