Whitechapel - Music Of the World on Whitechapel Sun, 26 May 2013 00:51:08 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344577#Comment_344577 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344577#Comment_344577 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:36:34 -0800 arklight Psy becoming the first South Korean to have a number 1 for Gungnam style

even though he can speak perfect English, he smashed the cultural barriers and proved music really is the universal language.

SO BRING US NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING MUSIC YOU LOVE.Not instrumentals ...;-)...
Every genre, every country, every style. Just let it be a good tune!

My contribution is SARA TAVARES -
I'm convinced that after English and Spanish, Portuguese is a huge musical superpower. Born in Portugal from
Portuguese speaking Cape Verde islands parents Sara sang this song, sampled by J. Cole and Angel Haze
("sufferings first"), this song could have easily have gone number one everywhere.


Sara Tavares - "Balance" (2006)





Heri Mkocha
https://www.youtube.com/thearklight ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344578#Comment_344578 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344578#Comment_344578 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:38:47 -0800 oldhat
Secondly,
"he smashed the cultural barriers and proved music really is the universal language."

...yeah, just check out the listening thread. ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344579#Comment_344579 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344579#Comment_344579 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:49:51 -0800 arklight @oldhat

True.old hat! The listening thread is the best musical pick and mix probably
on the net at the moment. There's alot of music on that thread!I just wanted to be more specific.

There are also loads of bilingual artists , some of them Korean, who insist on speaking in English
(of course it's a bigger market and is the closest we have to an international language), but he didn't,
he chose to rap in Korean.

What's more interesting is that it was the audience who sought out and embraced something so different,even if it is a form of Korean pop. That song wasn't promoted in the physical world (not online) till it was already ridiculously popular and it just get's more and more embraced.....


"Psy ft MC Hammer gangnam Style Performance"




Edit: anyway whitechaplians always bring music and stuff I would never find
just by myself, so god knows how awesome the world music they bring back will be!


Heri Mkocha
https://www.youtube.com/thearklight ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344681#Comment_344681 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344681#Comment_344681 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:47:20 -0800 Nygaard


Olöf Arnalds is amazing with voice and guitar



Digging out a couple of really obscure languages, this attempt at mainstreaming reconstructed norse shamanic chants is weirdly hypnotizing to me:



And the complete version of the theme music to HBO's Rome actually has lyrics, in ancient greek.



You'll want to avert your eyes from the comment fields, though. Putting anything with deep cultural roots on the net attracts nazis like piss-ants. ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344683#Comment_344683 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344683#Comment_344683 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:17:33 -0800 nigredo
Seriously though, it was the success of Gungnam Style that proved to you that music really is the universal language...? And now you're after "world music" but only "good tunes"?

Aaaarrrrrrgh... ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344686#Comment_344686 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344686#Comment_344686 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:03:21 -0800 vandalhandle
Léim Thart ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344804#Comment_344804 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344804#Comment_344804 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:52:04 -0800 ebullientsoul
A Far-Off Reason by envy. The riff, man. The riff. ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344816#Comment_344816 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344816#Comment_344816 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:47:24 -0800 arklight @Nigredo-

U gaiz sirius? Wat ruz, Amrikanz?

Seriously though, it was the success of Gungnam Style that proved to you that music really is the universal language...? And now you're after "world music" but only "good tunes"?

Aaaarrrrrrgh...


Maybe i could have expressed myself differently, and no, i'm not a yank.

It's just this interest in non English music feels very different from other times a song has
burst through, like "Joe La Taxi" by Vanessa Paradis or that "Macarena" song.
This doesn't feel one off, or niche, or novelty, but a very popular wave of interest.

And even more wonderful, it's not just appealing from non English speakers to English speakers.
Things like the Korean wave is appealing to Latin audiences too, on a mass level.
That's right from korean to Spanish,creating a rise in Spanish people learning Korean,
just because they want to access the culture. Music did this!It's all good !

a good feature on this is here...


"Korean wave in Colombia"





@vandalhandle - plus 1 on "Liem Thart!"


Heri Mkocha
https://www.youtube.com/thearklight ]]> Music Of the World on Whitechapel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344817#Comment_344817 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10912&Focus=344817#Comment_344817 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:36:11 -0800 arklight Bebel Gilberto

She made one of my all time favourite Brazillian Portugese songs, Agunju,

If this song isn't what modern Brazil feels like then it's what some people in the outside the world think Brazil feels like or desperately want it to feel like. It easily evokes a place and takes you there...


Bebel Gilberto - "Aganju"





The next song is like some exotic false memory ...still makes you want to be there,
and is so laid back as to be horizontal....



Bebel Gilberto - "Momento"





Heri Mkocha
https://www.youtube.com/thearklight ]]>