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peter gabriel had the right idea
Aug. 3rd, 2004 11:50 pmbut it's so hard to execute in practice yourself.
There's so much amazing "world" or "ethnic" music -- those wonderous generic catch-all terms -- that no one ever fucking hears. I'm listening to Os Mutantes best of now ("everything is possible"). They're a brazilian psychedelic band from the late 60's that no one outside of psychedelia fans, brazilians and music geeks have heard of. It's like if the beatles moved to south america during their psych phase and got heavy into tropicalia and mushrooms.
I have some Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is seriously gorgeous music; trippy drums, almost trance-y, and then choirs of singing and on top of this, there's this amazing voice that sounds like it Came From Beyond. And I have no idea what it's saying. For all I know, he could be singing about taking a shit or how much he hates the evil americans listening to this (I'm fairly sure that's not the case, but I can't know for sure.)
23 skidoo, this weird ethnic drumming and punk thing with dance beats. You know that bassline from "Block Rockin' Beats" by the Chemical Brothers? that's from their album "Urban Gamelan".
I wish I knew more about different world music -- I've wanted to get into african music but I don't know anything about it except I like some Fela Kuti stuff and some african music I heard onthe radio once on WVUM.
There's so much amazing "world" or "ethnic" music -- those wonderous generic catch-all terms -- that no one ever fucking hears. I'm listening to Os Mutantes best of now ("everything is possible"). They're a brazilian psychedelic band from the late 60's that no one outside of psychedelia fans, brazilians and music geeks have heard of. It's like if the beatles moved to south america during their psych phase and got heavy into tropicalia and mushrooms.
I have some Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is seriously gorgeous music; trippy drums, almost trance-y, and then choirs of singing and on top of this, there's this amazing voice that sounds like it Came From Beyond. And I have no idea what it's saying. For all I know, he could be singing about taking a shit or how much he hates the evil americans listening to this (I'm fairly sure that's not the case, but I can't know for sure.)
23 skidoo, this weird ethnic drumming and punk thing with dance beats. You know that bassline from "Block Rockin' Beats" by the Chemical Brothers? that's from their album "Urban Gamelan".
I wish I knew more about different world music -- I've wanted to get into african music but I don't know anything about it except I like some Fela Kuti stuff and some african music I heard onthe radio once on WVUM.
