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Various Artists - Molam: Thai Country Groove From
Year: 2007
Style: Thai madness
Country: Thailand
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 144 MB (5% recovery information included)
"Here we see the molam style diversify as it hits the 1970s and 1980s and introduces the sound of synthesizers, drum machines and electric guitars into the mix to create some truly bizarre fusion of styles, but unlike the 'Thai Pop Spectacular' album, this collection never really falls wholeheartedly into the pop sound. Rather across this disc we get some truly astonishing vocal performances, psychedelic break-led pieces and simple but affecting folk music that sticks in your head never to be prized free."
Why nobody in the Asian restaurants put on music like this instead of the usual cheesy stuff??
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Various Artists - Molam: Thai Country Groove From
Year: 2005
Style: Thai madness
Country: Thailand
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 192 kbps
Size: 86 MB (5% recovery information included)
"The classic recordings featured here are selections from rare vinyl LPs, 45s and cassettes recorded in the Northeastern region of Thailand known as Isan and beyond between the 1970s and 1980s. This was a pivotal time when music of the region began to be electrified and integrated with Western instruments. When electric bass, effected guitars, electric organs, kit drums and horns played alongside the khaen and the phin."
Compared to the "Thai Pop Spectacular" compilation, this one here sounds a bit more traditional, mainly due to the overall use of the mouth organ khaen. But beware: nevertheless it's still a Sublime Frequencies release., so please expect some rather dazzling listening experiences.
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Various Artists - Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s
Year: 2007
Style: Thai madness
Country: Thailand
Format: MP3
Quality: VBR, average 256 kbps
Size: 116 MB (5% recovery information included)
The hardest thing about enjoying strange musics from other lands, though, is realizing that the music only seems strange to us... Compiled again by the Sublime Frequencies label, this is "an awesomely confusional mix of Molam, Bollywood, Ethiopian groove, funk, soul, American pop and surf rock, all tangled up into amazing shapes, and peppered with killer hooks, amazing vocalists, bizarre production techniques, but most of all amazing songs."
Beware: this is not for purists. But if you enjoyed the "Ethiopiques" series or stuff like "Bombshell Baby of Bombay", you probably will like also this one.
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Various Artists - Black Mirror: Reflections in Glo
Album: Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics (1918-1955)
Year: 2007
Label: Dust-to-Digital
Style: traditional, folk, vintage
Country: various
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 192 kbps
Size: 110 MB (5% recovery information & artwork included)
Released by the ambitious Dust-to-Digital label, and pulled from his personal collection of old 78rpm shellacs by equally ambitious Baltimore record shop owner Ian Nagoski, this album compiles rare old recordings from Syria, Thailand, Bali, England, India, Cameroun, Poland, China, Ireland, Ukraine, Turkey, Vietnam, Germany, Greece, Serbia, Java, Spain, Portugal, Laos, Sweden, Bali, Japan, and Myanmar.
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Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music of Nige
Style: amplified Tuareg music
Country: Niger
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 78 MB (5% recovery information included)
"Spearheaded by the enigmatic guitar hero Bibi Ahmed, Group Inerane has been together for several years and carries the rich tradition of Tamachek guitar songs for another generation. These ten tracks are a combination of amplified roots rock, blues, and folk in the local Tuareg styles, at times entering into full-on electric guitar psychedelia. This music is performed with two electric guitars, a drum kit and a chorus of vocalists, and has been captured live in the city of Agadez in the Republic of Niger." (Sublime Frequencies)
Released by SF as a limited vinyl edition which quickly sold out, the raw sound here is thankfully light years away from the usually rather polished World Music productions. Play loud, please...
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Group Doueh - Guitar Music from the Western Sahara
Style: Saharawi
Country: Western Sahara
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 93 MB (5% recovery information included)
"Saharawi songs are from the sung poetry of the Hassania language. The music is based on the same modal structure as Mauritanian music. However, Doueh’s style is a looser appropriation infused with a western guitar scope, one that relies, in his words, as much on Hendrix as it does traditional Sahrawi music. It also adds a playful pop element that rarely filters through in this region." (Sublime Frequencies) — Released as a limited LP edition only, which is out of print now.
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Various Artists - Bombshell Baby of Bombay (2006)
Year: 2006
Style: Bollywood madness
Country: India
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Size: 78 MB (5% recovery information)
Subtitled "Bouncin' Nightclub Grooves from Bollywood Films 1959-1972", this second volume of a series with vintage Indian film tunes eclectically covers the range of "surf, rock'n'roll, mariachi, sleazy strip jazz, big band swing and '60s pop, amongst other styles, sometimes leaping from genre to genre in the space of a few bars." — Features also the infamous track "Jan Pahechan Ho" from Terry Zwiegoff's movie Ghost World.
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Various Artists - Tod Trauer Trapani (2005)
Year: 2005
Style: funeral marches, brass music, field recordings
Country: Italy (Sicily)
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR 256 kbps
Size: 130 MB (5% recovery information + artwork included)
Funeral marches played by local "banda" (brass) bands, recorded during the traditional Holy Friday Procession (Processione dei Misteri) on the streets of Trapani, Sicily. According to a review, this is a source that inspired Ennio Morricone as well as Nino Rota. Track 8 indeed contains the funeral music from Fellini's "Amarcord", while another one features Chopin's famous march.
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Various Artists - The Last LP (1987)
Year: 1987
Style: Whirled Music, field recordings, avantgarde
Country: various
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Size: 87 MB (5% recovery information + artwork and extensive liner notes included)
Assembled by Canadian artist Michael Snow and subtitled "Unique Last Recordings of the Music of Ancient Cultures," this hard to get and now pretty expensive album passionately compiles rarely heard music from all over the world.
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Iva Bittová - 44 Duets for Two Violins (1997)
Album: Iva Bittová & Dorothea Kellerová — "Béla Bartók. 44 Duets for Two Violins"
Year: 1997
Style: avantgarde
Country: Czech Republic
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 128 MB (5% recovery information + artwork included)
Website: www.bittova.com
Violin pieces by Béla Bartók: "Minor key, impressionistic, and stark, like the soundtrack to a Truffaut film."
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Széki Kurva - Complete Iris discography
Albums: Music for Joyriders + The Sound Of Dead Goats + The Fearless Vampire Killers
Year: 1997
Style: (OutOfThe)WorldMusic(Mix)
Country: Hungary / England
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR, 320 kbps
Size: 108+62+81 MB (5% recovery information + artwork included)
Fast, exotic, mad and maddening turbofolk by a now defunct Anglo-Hungarian band which combined Hungarian folk music with technoindustrial and punk elements together with a lot of wild, anarchistic sampling. Exciting, intelligent, with humor and sometimes also bitter and twisted fun, this is a pleasure for some, and maybe torture for others. — With nods to Kálmán Balogh, Béla Bartók, Márta Sebestyén, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Phil Spector, the Hungarian Gypsies' Justice Union, The Birthday Party, John Peel, Vujicsics, Atari Teenage Riot, the Situationists, God, and the Virgin Mary.
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Traband - Road Movie (2002)
Год/Year: 2002
Стиль/Style: Dechno
Страна/Country: Czech Republic
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: VBR
Размер/Size: 68 MB (5% recovery information included)
Web: www.traband.net | www.myspace.com/trabandhudba
Traband — no, the name doesn't refer to the notorious Trabant car from former GDR but to contrabande, smuggling — and is considered to be the best Czech Dechno band (dechovka = brass music).
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Mitja Vrhovnik-Smrekar - Ekspres, ekspres (1996)
Год/Year: 1996
Стиль/Style: soundtrack
Страна/Country: Slovenia
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 256 kbps
Размер/Size: 74 MB (5% recovery information + artwork included)
Soundtrack by a composer from Ljubljana for the best Slovenian film of the last three decades.
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Corsica - Chants Polyphoniques (1987)
Album: E Voce Di U Cumune — "Corsica. Chants Polyphoniques"
Год/Year: 1987
Стиль/Style: sacred, medieval, folk, vocal
Страна/Country: Corsica
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 89 MB (artwork included)
Traditional Corsican vocal music, deeply rooted in the medieval era.
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Mihály Víg - Film Music for Béla Tarr (2001)
Год/Year: 2001
Стиль/Style: non-Hollywood soundtracks
Страна/Country: Hungary
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 120 MB (5% recovery information + artwork included)
Rather melancholy and introspected, this is "beautiful, varied, original, distinctly Eastern European, and yet strangely universal at the same time." — A must have at least for admirers of director Béla Tarr.
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VA - Music of Nat Pwe
Album: VA — Music of Nat Pwe — Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 3
Год/Year: 2007
Стиль/Style: Speed Gamelan
Страна/Country: Burma (Myanmar)
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 90 MB (artwork included)
As somebody on the InterNat aptly remarked before: "Wild psychedelic speed gamelan for transvestite ghost brides." — My favorite SF release so far, and one of the best and most craziest things I've listened to in 2007.
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Pustit musíš - Pustit musíš
Год/Year: 1996
Стиль/Style: RIO
Страна/Country: Czech Republic
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 80 MB (5% recovery information included)
A project of the Czech band Dunaj with Iva Bittová and Pavel Fajt.
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Tibor Szemzö - Tractatus (1995)
Год/Year: 1995
Стиль/Style: avantgarde (?)
Страна/Country: Hungary
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 320 kbps
Размер/Size: 88 MB
Tibor Szemzö's website
Don't let yourself get fooled by the reference to Wittgenstein... this is very listenable and rather sounds like a gentle lullaby...
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Tibor Szemzö - The Conscience (1993)
Год/Year: 1993
Стиль/Style: avantgarde (maybe for the ones who otherwise don't like avantgarde?)
Страна/Country: Hungary
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 78 MB
Tibor Szemzö's website
Difficult to categorize work by Hungarian artist Tibor Szemzö. "The Conscience" starts with a strange story, than the album gets even stranger...
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The World Sings Goodnight 1+2 (Lullabies)
Год/Year: 1993 + 1995
Стиль/Style: Lullabies
Страна/Country: international
Формат/Format: MP3
Качество/Quality: CBR 192 kbps
Размер/Size: 72 + 77 MB
Lullabies of many different cultures sung in their native tongue.
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