Giving a whole new spin to the term ‘world music’ — A.R.Rahman spins his magic on an absolute scorcher, featuring Jordanian singer –Farah Siraj along with Nepalese Buddhist Nun Ani Choying. With the traditional Nepalese Buddhist hymn forming the base of the song, layered with a traditional Jordanian melody, and bridged seamlessly with composition written by A.R.Rahman, this song truly brings together diverse cultures and musical genres…
Not sure commentor Schrodinger’s Cat would want credit for this, but following her Bollywood-Sufi YouTube links led me to CokeStudio@MTV, which is an endless delight. Only wish I could embed “Kattey” — a driving collaboration between traditionalist Rajasthani folk singer Bhanvari Devi and female rapper Hard Kaur — but you’re gonna have to click the link if you’re intrigued…
seaboogie
Enjoying the music, but the “Coke Studio” graphics kind of not helping much…sorry to be a downer, but they are intrusive on the experience.
seaboogie
@seaboogie: So, in the spirit of raising things up a bit, I proffer Krishna Das’ Hanuman Chaleesa….
KD’s sonorous voice and chants have guided me down many dark and twisty roads and seen me through to the other side. KD was an early founding member of Blue Oyster Cult before he went to India, found a guru, came back to the US and got lost in cocaine and crack, then kind of started the whole kirtan movement in the US.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Door #1: Bob Seger (go-go dancers), “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man.”
Door #2: Pharoah Sanders, “Harvest Time.”
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
John Klemmer, “Touch.”
Jesse Colin Young, “Ridgetop.”
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Hey, Steep – that’s kind of super-disparate. Don’t know that version of Seger, but his music is kind of seminal to me, esp. as we moved to SW Ontario (down Detroit way) when I was a late teen. Really like Pharoah Sanders…thanks for the intro….
gene108
GWAR covers “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys
GWAR covers “Carry
On Wayward Son” by Kansas
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: So….you’re a sax man then….you like it deep and saxy late at night….mmmm-hmmmm
Thank you for the mellow profferings late at night – much appreciated. My musical knowledge is somewhat lacking. Keep putting it out there…
Groucho48
I hadn’t been familiar with much of this music before folks started posting links in thread here. Some very nice stuff!
For something I am familiar with here is a set of some Celtic jigs and reels, performed by my favorite Celtic group, Arcady.
https://youtu.be/3-oq7vfJlIg
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Hence Door #1 or Door #2. Choose wisely.
That song is early Seger—the Bob Seger System—before he emerged a few years later as the eponymous solo act. I’ve always liked the early incarnation; “2 + 2 = ?” is a great but little-remembered antiwar song.
seaboogie
@gene108: That was an astonishing amount of energy to put into a bad idea…
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Based on my reading of your previous comments, I think you would like a lot of Pharoah Sanders’s stuff.
“Astral Journey.”
“Elevation.” (Can skip from 5:00 to 9:00 for the faint of heart.)
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Pharoah Sanders, “The Creator Has a Master Plan.”
Steeplejack
United Future Organization (UFO), “Stolen Moments.”
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: I’m sort of realizing that I am super-square, musically. I am circle-curious, but probably a rectangle at best. I will never be a musical sophisticate, but do please keep educate me in ways musical as you have done in ways functional on web-skillz using the site – which have always been appreciated.
BTW, Seger’s Lucifer is auto-playing now, and the graphics are great.
Aleta
Kinan Idnawi on oud
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
I don’t claim any special knowledge—just years of listening and discovering what I like. YouTube is a great resource for finding “more like that, please!”
Milton Nascimento, “Dancing.”
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Before I listen to this, understand that this is a favorite song from when I was much much younger…..so you will understand that you are hitting me where I live…not a sophisticate, but whatever. Huge fan of Vince Guaraldi and Snoopy stuff too…sigh….
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: This is fun! All of the joy of boyfriends introducing me to music without all the messy relationship stuff!
Aleta
rats, battery going dark side of the moon
goodnight
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
A Charlie Brown Christmas—my favorite Christmas album.
Re Birdland: Bird and Miles, “Bird of Paradise.”
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Thanks, uh, I think.
mdarst so oregon
Still up on the West Coast….Glenn Yarbrough passed a night or two ago. My FB and high school classmates and I remembered him today.
Anne Laurie
@Groucho48: You should most definitely click on the Kattey link, if you haven’t already. Spousal Unit wandered past and asked “Celtic-Asian fusion?” — the tune has a driving percussive rhythm that, like some of the best Celtic stuff, is based on a tonal pattern not among the “proper European” sets!
seaboogie
@Steeplejack:
Mine too.
I love “Dancing”. New sounds for me, and my life is on the edge of the cusp of big changes – so very welcome…I is expanding and you are helping me in your wonderful way – thank you!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: This thread is starting to remind me of this guy.
Steeplejack
Paul Carrack and Eric Clapton, “How Long.”
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey. Just no.
Click if you dare.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Yes, thanks are in order. Unless we are in a relationship, in which case you should know that I will soon need to have some shelves installed in my new joint – a couple of weeks hence.
Steeplejack
@mdarst so oregon:
Glenn Yarbrough, “Baby, the Rain Must Fall.”
Steeplejack
Peter, Paul and Mary, “Early Morning Rain.”
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Ace, “How Long.”
gene108
Nujabes “Who’s Theme” (featuring MINMI)
Mary G
@Steeplejack: @seaboogie: A Charlie Brown Christmas is the only album I have purchased on vinyl, cassette, and CD.
Msb
Thanks for the video, that was great music. And I have to say I adore Siraj’s dress/robe, as well.
Steeplejack
Judy Collins, “Someday Soon.”
seaboogie
@Mary G: I bought the CD at Starbucks (because latte and Snoopy and childhood memories) and then downloaded it on my phone.
Aleta
Marion Brown
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n31VKdH2vlA
Or else, Hurry Sundown
seaboogie
@seaboogie: Love “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” on VG’s Greatest Hits – was featured well in The Wolf of Wall Street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAh4gYZdDUg
Steeplejack
@seaboogie, @Mary G:
Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.”
Anne Laurie
@Aleta: First music I ever bought was two cassette tapes (new tech, c1971) — Best of Melanie, and Mary Travers’
first self-titledsecond solo album, Morning Glory. I won’t apologize for either choice, but I really wish I could find a copy of the Travers album!ETA: My googling skills are improving, or (more likely) there’s more online than when I last tried finding this; I remembered the title of the album wrong, and since Morning Glory isn’t listed as being produced on cassette, the one I bought in Manhattan’s Chinatown may have been a bootleg.
Steeplejack
@Mary G:
I never bought cassettes—always made my own from LPs. When CDs came out the first one I bought was Meet the Beatles, in homage to the first LP I ever got (Christmas ’63).
The Smithereens, “Don’t Bother Me.”
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Excellent.
opiejeanne
@mdarst so oregon: I am so sorry to hear this. I heard him in concert when I was in college in 1969.
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
I’ll put it on my watch list.
Peter, Paul and Mary, “Motherless Child.”
Aleta
The first time ever I https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U
Groucho48
@Anne Laurie:
I gave it a listen and did enjoy it. The fiddle definitely gave it a Celtic feel. It would be even closer if they replaced the drum set with a bodhran player. I thought the drums were a little obtrusive, anyway.
Here’s another Arcady, with vocals by Francis Black and Sean Keane.
https://youtu.be/t0u3CDx-I5s
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Mary Travers, “Follow Me.”
Groucho48
@Steeplejack:
Love Peter Paul and Mary! The were either the first or second concert I ever saw. Joan Baez is the other possibility. Just saw her recently on her 75th birthday tour. Great show, even though her range is more limited, now.
Aleta
@Anne Laurie: Hard to find a good recording, but this is Melanie’s son –https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azXmJGKxd1o
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=azXmJGKxd1o
Steeplejack
@Groucho48:
Their version of “Motherless Child” is the ultimate for me.
Another take: Richie Havens, “Freedom/Motherless Child.”
Aleta
@Steeplejack: @Steeplejack: As ever, the very good ones
Kathleen
@seaboogie: I’ve still got his Black Orpheus vinyl, which features Cast Your Fate to the Winds. Side 1 is the soundtrack to the movie Black Orpheus, which I think was made in 1959. Fantastic album.
Kathleen
@Steeplejack: My dad brought Meet The Beatles home from the radio station, where he always got promotional copies. Today Cincinnati is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ final concert here at Crosley Field. This thread is bringing back lots of musical memories and introducing me to new music (thanks for the links, AL and everybody else).
Steeplejack
@Kathleen:
Meet the Smithereens (linked above) is pretty cool—a song-by-song remake of the Beatles album by the Smithereens. They do some other classic Beatles songs, too.
“There’s a Place.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: The first CD I bought was Abbey Road(it was a Japanese pressing that was the only Beatles CD available at the time, 1984).
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You can’t do better than that.
Kathleen
@Steeplejack: Never heard of these guys. Thanks again!
Poopyman
@seaboogie: @Steeplejack:Thanks for the Guaraldi links. A good transition from early morning meteor watching to the business of the day.
Autumn Leaves
Groucho48
@Steeplejack:
I like the Richie Havens version better but they are both great.
I also like his version of Here Comes The Sun better than the Beatles version.
https://youtu.be/357gZV2Nfsk
In fact, I like him a lot. I used to have a couple of his albums on vinyl but I confess I haven’t thought of him in years. I think I’m going to have to remedy that.
Aleta
@Kathleen: my first album: Hard Day’s Night.
laura
I’m a failure at linking because I’m an old, but if you’re of half a mind, I highly recommend Slash’s blistering and masterful Love Theme from the Godfather that flows into Sweet Child O’Mine from the San Francisco AT&T Park Tuesday night.
The jumboTron really captures the hand work of a Guitar virtuoso at the height of his craft and reunited in his band.
Wow! What a performance.
Kathleen
@Aleta: Probably too late for the thread but…I loved that movie. Saw it 2 or 3 times in the theater.
the antibob
@Anne Laurie: Fantastic link. Thanks so much! Always looking for world music sources. Coke Studio is amazing. Not sure how I missed it.
schrodinger's cat
I will take all the credit I can get! I have linked to Coke Studio before but not this exact number. If you guys like Coke Studio, you will also like Rahman’s MTV Unplugged.
From the movie Swades, Yeh Jo Des Hai Mera (This country of mine). Here is the movie version
ETA: I hate the moniker Bollywood, makes it sound like the Hindi film industry is a derivative of Hollywood.
J R in WV
@Aleta:
That is great! What a talent. I hope he has escaped the horrors in Today’s Syria.
the antibob
@schrodinger’s cat:
Lots of Coke Studio India material on Google Play Music, also.
Ramalama
@seaboogie: I listened to this song so frequently I’m surprised I didn’t wear it out. Wear it out…in the universe …. so that no one else could enjoy it.
Ramalama
Annie Laurie: I love this, cokestudio logo notwithstanding. I went to a buddhist university and had the pleasure of hearing some grog throat croaking Tibetan singers, but they were all men. And this was before the internet and the nuns joining Arabic musicians…