What's your favorite non-Western album?

I have to do an Ethnographic CD review...and I don't know what to choose. Some recommendations would be nice! :)

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Thanks checking out the album right now.. :yeah:

I don't know what you meant by non-Western though. :sobbing:

Basically, not American, as far as I understand.

Cibo Matto's kinda complicated since they're NY based and all of their popularity was mostly in the US. But they do have Shibuya-kei influences, obviously because they're Japanese. I'll just get a list and run them by my professor.

I still like the album so far though. Very Bjork-esque and sounds a but like CSS from Brazil. :)

I love the whole album but especially Birthday Cake and Sugar Water. :hearts:

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Breathtaking.

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Breathtaking.

thanks! :)

each track is so long :eek:

I don't know what you meant by non-Western though. :sobbing:http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmanr0gKDY1qavmeoo1_500.gif
Then I'm sure you don't know what ethnographic means either.

Yutaka - Breath of Night

Harmony by Sa Dingding (萨顶顶)

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Yutaka - Breath of Night

Thanks. :)
I can't really find background bio/info on them though. :lol:

Harmony by Sa Dingding (萨顶顶)

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thank you!
some unique sounding chants going on. :yeah:

Would the Drawing Restraint 9 Soundtrack count as Western music? :p

Would the Drawing Restraint 9 Soundtrack count as Western music? :p

No, I wouldn't think so. I want to stay away from Bjork though, I want to dig into new/unfamiliar grounds. I was considering Sigur Ros too but I couldn't make it through their album. :p

Oh ok, I got you. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
You mind if I ask what class this is? Is it an anthropology of music class?

Oh ok, I got you. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
You mind if I ask what class this is? Is it an anthropology of music class?

:lol: It's cool, feel free to shoot ideas anytime; my due date is March 17th.

It's an ethnomusicology course called Global Pop.

I like Chthonic, a Taiwanese melodic black metal band.

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Then I'm sure you don't know what ethnographic means either.

No. I only have a 12th grade education.

:lol: It's cool, feel free to shoot ideas anytime; my due date is March 17th.

It's an ethnomusicology course called Global Pop.

OK, that's my suggestion out of the running then (it's not pop).

How about something by Yothu Yindi (an Australian Aboriginal group)? Or some Algerian raï?

Here's a great one:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/aisha-kandishas-jarring-effects-r210418

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What?? That's a totally Western album in every way anyone could think of.

Is reggae considered Western music?

Check out some rai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AF#Selected_list_of_ra.C3.AF_musicians

D'Sound, I dunno if they count. It's a band from Norway and their music is called "Acid Jazz".

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Doublehearted is my fave album of them.

I like Chthonic, a Taiwanese melodic black metal band.

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Thanks for the suggestion. :cool:

OK, that's my suggestion out of the running then (it's not pop).

How about something by Yothu Yindi (an Australian Aboriginal group)? Or some Algerian raï?

It's not the western definition of "pop." Just think in terms of "World Music"- which can be genre's.
And thanks I'll check those out.

Here's a great one:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/aisha-kandishas-jarring-effects-r210418

Thanks, listening to it right now. :)

Is reggae considered Western music?

No, African diaspora music isn't. Anything in particular? ...there's a lot of reggae out there. :lol:

Check out some rai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%AF#Selected_list_of_ra.C3.AF_musicians

thanks!

D'Sound, I dunno if they count. It's a band from Norway and their music is called "Acid Jazz".

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Doublehearted is my fave album of them.

Thanks. Just heard a snippet; sounds like The Cardigans + 90's Spice Girls & the like + Estelle. :yeah: They're very western though, I don't know if I could pull off a 6 pager about them.

Btw, are any of you guys familiar with Ana Tijoux? I heard two songs and they are great! :hearts: ...even though I only understand every other word. :lol:

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Well I like Dido and MS Dynamite. Dido's 2nd and MS Dynamite first. kinda old music but good music

Anything byDeep Forest. Very Surreal and beautiful

Well I like Dido and MS Dynamite. Dido's 2nd and MS Dynamite first. kinda old music but good music

Anything byDeep Forest. Very Surreal and beautiful

Deep Forest's music is beautiful.

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Thanks guys! Keep em coming! :D

i'm not a specialist, but artists that could be filed under "world music" that i enjoy: Warsaw Village Band, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mercedes Sosa, some stuff by Lhasa de Sela, Le Mystère des voix Bulgares, Hazmat Modine, Yungchen Lhamo, Miriam Makeba, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. hope you find something you like :)

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this album is AMAZING! but yeah, their music is very western methinks.

deep forest are from france. that's just a kitschy pastiche of world music for people to listen to while they're looking at the photographs of the rain forest they bought at IKEA.

Electric Sufi by Dhafer Youssef :worship:

i'm not a specialist, but artists that could be filed under "world music" that i enjoy: Warsaw Village Band, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mercedes Sosa, some stuff by Lhasa de Sela, Le Mystère des voix Bulgares, Hazmat Modine, Yungchen Lhamo, Miriam Makeba, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. hope you find something you like :)



this album is AMAZING! but yeah, their music is very western methinks.

deep forest are from france. that's just a kitschy pastiche of world music for people to listen to while they're looking at the photographs of the rain forest they bought at IKEA.

:lol: exactly what I thought while I was listening to them last night.
thanks for the suggestions btw! :)

Electric Sufi by Dhafer Youssef :worship:

listening to right now... :)

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Alondra Bentley "Ashfield Avenue"

I personally LOVE this album, it's folk. And I just found out that this girl is Spaniard:lol:

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My favorite of this album.