World Music... HELP!

[Matt Till]

I've got a World Music class.... I'm going to get to hear a lot of World music... but I can't wait, plus I'll want more than they give me.

I'm especially interested in native African music... but I'm also wanting to get into native Indian music (not Native American... native Indian... though native American music is cool too.)

I'm not talking pop music, I mean World "tribal" music.

Any recommended CDs?

 

[Marlat]

You should check out any of the following bands, I hear they are really cool and a bit out there. Certainly not standard pop:

- Tool

- Radiohead

- The Mars Volta

- System of a Down.

Hope it helps.

 

[Matt Till]

R tehy trippy?

 

[superbassman2000]

yeah, tool does the tribal drum thing, while the lead singer goes from a whisper to a prolonged scream...its really cool

also, id check out ravi shenkar...he's a really good sitar player...i don't know if that really means anything, but he is part of the world, so i figure he plays world music

 

[Wrong Robot]

here is a list of names:

african(mostly):
Fela Kuti
Salif Keita
Mamadou
Thione Diop
King Sunny Ade
Antibalas
Richard Bona
Issa Bagayoyo
Kaouding Cissoko
Tarika
Giya Marimba
Baaba Maal
Kokolo
Zap Mama

Indian(mostly)
Ravi Shankar
Rajeev Taranath
Amjad Ali Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
Haripraasad Chaurasia
Shiv Kumar Sharma
Shakti
Zakir hussein
Krishna Bhatt


More or less... The world is a big place.

 

[Matt Till]

Very nice, thank you sir

 

[baba]

Nigerian artists Fela Kuti and Prince Nico Mbarga.

Fela's son Femi also has some good stuff.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

I'm especially interested in native African music...

What people have listed so far is the western-influenced pop music of Africa....but then you won't get any recordings of real "native" music as it is an oral tradition and probably only preserved in a few places for tourists!!

 

[Wrong Robot]

Well of course if you want to get into the real nitty gritty, you're not going to find it on a label. That said, Thione Diop plays straight up rhythms, the album I have of his is in no way afro-pop.

There are jumbles of compilations out there with varying degrees of authenticity. The problem being that there are many compilations of new-age pseudo-african music as well. But I have seen CDs of bare bones chanting and drumming, I do not have any names for you though. I personally don't have as much of a liking for some of the really authentic stuff, outside of what musical ideas I can gleam from it, I usually don't find it all that interesting to listen to. I feel that way about many bare bones musics though.

 

[The_Ryst]

Jonas Hellborg and SHawn Lane's Icon has some INTENSE indian music up there....really out there.

Consider the Soucre (www.considerthemusic.com )is mad good fusion....very very cool, and their CD has an amazing bass solo.

 

[Matt Till]

What people have listed so far is the western-influenced pop music of Africa....but then you won't get any recordings of real "native" music as it is an oral tradition and probably only preserved in a few places for tourists!!

I'm looking moreso for the "tourist attraction." Perhaps CDs of field recordings of real tribal music, basically African Folk music.

 

[FunkKing]

Kokolo

My band supported them at the Meze lounge in Newport, South wales. They're pretty great. The bassist said his name was Darren something or other, I can't recall his surname, I was pretty out of it that night. The whole group were pretty much flawless. Utter Fela Kuti-style groove.

 

[Muzique Fann]

pick up one of the Trilok Gurtu cd's w/ Kai Eckhardt on bass - good stuff.

I've got a disc somewhere I could send you of some traditional Tahitian drumming - we recorded this trio at our house, it was very cool to watch.

 

[sargebaker]

Remmy Ongala (sp?)

 

[geoffkhan]

here is a list of names:

african(mostly):
Fela Kuti
Salif Keita
Mamadou
Thione Diop
King Sunny Ade
Antibalas
Richard Bona
Issa Bagayoyo
Kaouding Cissoko
Tarika
Giya Marimba
Baaba Maal
Kokolo
Zap Mama

Indian(mostly)
Ravi Shankar
Rajeev Taranath
Amjad Ali Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
Haripraasad Chaurasia
Shiv Kumar Sharma
Shakti
Zakir hussein
Krishna Bhatt


More or less... The world is a big place.

That is a GREAT list! You have good taste in World music.

 

[Wrong Robot]

Music is music.