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Pakistan عربي … Qawwali

Coke Studio Sessions has gained exceptional popularity with their musical fusion of exciting elements and diverse influences, ranging from traditional eastern, modern western and regionally inspired music. Bringing together big stars of Pakistani folk and Sufi music and Rock/Pop stars . . . very rich in sound.

Produced by Rohail […]

al-‘alam al-‘arabi العالم العربي‎

ليش نتعارك؟ Leysh Nat’Arak . . .

(English: «Why Are We Fighting») is a song performed by Belgian singer Natacha Atlas. The song was written by Atlas, Count Dubulah, Hamid ManTu and Attiah Ahlan and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas’ debut album Diaspora (1995).

«Leysh Nat’ Arak» was inspired […]

Flamenco

There are very few examples of art forms which combine extremes in such a compelling way: joy and grief, life and death, discipline and spontaneity, the inner self and the gregarious mass . . .

The thing about flamenco is that even though it’s very popular music, […]

Flamenco guitar

The flamenco guitar differs from the classical guitar in the instrument itself and in the technique used to play it. The role of the guitar in flamenco was originally a rhythmic accompaniment to give the song an organized structure and a driving force. Today however the solo flamenco guitarist uses […]

Flamenco dance

Hailing from southern Spain’s outcast populations, flamenco dance and music drew early influences from Greek and Roman and later from Indian, Moorish, and Jewish cultures. With the arrival of the Moorish and Jewish populations to the Iberian peninsula centuries ago, Andalusia’s already thriving music and dance inadvertently […]

Gipsy flair

¤ An anthem of Hungarian Beas Roma ⇓ ‘ Zöld az erdő’←

The wood is green, so is the hill. Luck comes and goes. The knife of worries cuts into our flesh, The world has gone hypocrite. The whole world is our enemy, We live as […]

Divna Ljubojevic . . .

¶   Music from The Balkans:   Serbia  –  Bulgaria  –  Greece …  

•→Divna Ljubojevic  &  Melody u Kijevu  [Byzantine Orthodox music]⇐

«Divna» means «wonderful» in English… Her voice certainly lives up to her name!

•→Divna Ljubojević & Hor «Melodi» Pashalni koncert⇐

The Serbian diva with […]

Huun-Huur-Tu + Altai Khairkhan …

The most distinctive characteristic of Huun Huur Tu’s music is throat singing, in which the singers sing both the note (drone) and the drone’s overtone(s), thus producing two or three notes simultaneously. The overtone may sound like a flute, whistle or bird, but is actually solely a product of the […]

Reggae

¤ Together with his backing group, The Aces (Wilson James + Easton Barrington Howard), Desmond Dekker (1941-2006) had one of the first international Jamaican hits with «Israelites»  ↓

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, so that every mouth can be fed. Poor me, Israelite. Aah.

Get up in the morning, slaving for […]

Mikel Laboa [1934-2008]

•→http://en.wikipedia.org/Mikel_Laboa / •→obituary

♦ Baga biga higa ↓ [from Julio Medem’s «Euskal pilota: Larrua harriaren kontra» – 2003]

Baga, biga, higa, laga, boga, sega, Zai, zoi, bele, harma, tiro, pun! Xirristi-mirristi gerrena plat, Olio zopa, Kikili salda, Urrup edan edo klik … ikimilikiliklik …

[…]

Chuck Berry + Stray Cats

•→«Oh Baby Doll» ⇐(1957)⇒[lyrics]

♦ ‘Little Queenie’ ↓ (1959)

I got lumps in my throat when I saw her comin’ down the aisle I got the wiggles in my knees when she looked at me and sweetly smiled There she is again standin’ over by the […]

The Doors + Grateful Dead

♦→ ‘The severed garden‘ ⇓ Jim Morrison ⇐[1943 – 71]

wow, i’m sick of doubt live in the life of certain, south, cruel bindings the servants have the power dog men and they’re mean women pulling poor blankets over our sailors

i’m sick of dour faces staring at […]

Tim & Jeff Buckley

♦  Tim Buckley  ↓  ‘Song to the Siren‘  (1968)

Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile ‘Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here […]

Arlo & Woody Guthrie

¤ Arlo Guthrie

City of New Orleans is a folk song written by →Steve Goodman, describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife’s […]

Jimmie Rodgers + Patsy Cline

¤ Jimmie Rodgers [1897-1933] · · · The Singing Brakeman [1930] 1. Waiting for a Train ↓

All around the water tank, waiting for a train A thousand miles away from home, sleeping in the rain I walked up to a brakeman just to give him a line of talk He said «If […]

Waylon Jennings + Johnny Cash

By age 12, Waylon Jennings [1937-2002] was playing in a band and working as a radio DJ. His style evolved over time, taking on a grittier, more bass-driven sound. He befriended such artists as Willie Nelson, and formed the Highwaymen with Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson in 1985.

[…]

Highwaymen + Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Highwaymen (active between 1985 and 1995) were a Country music supergroup comprising four of the genre’s biggest artists well known for their pioneering influence on the outlaw country subgenre:

Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson.

«I met Waylon […]

‘Americana’

♫ Songs with lyrics ♬

Listen … Read along … Sing along … ♫ A top-notch site ⇓ Americana ♬

•→http://esl-bits.net/Songs/Songs.for.English.Language.Learning.html⇐

¤→ ‘I Love This Bar’ ⇐

This song was released in August 2003 as the lead off single from Toby Keith‘s […]

A few English Tunes

¤ Dido ⇓ ‘Thank You’ ←[«No Angel»_1999]

Her biggest break arrived in 2000, when rap superstar Eminem sampled this track for the chorus of his hit single «Stan».

My tea’s gone cold, I’m wondering why I got out of bed at allThe morning rain clouds up my window […]

This Is The Life

→  Amy MacDonald←  LIVE @ Rob Brydon Show BBC 2 (14.08.2012)

I get up in the evening, and I ain’t got nothing to say I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way I ain’t nothing but tired, man I’m just tired and bored with myself […]