Share music from your culture or country

[rappo]

I always like listening to music from other countries and cultures - although it's usually focused on Eastern European and Middle Eastern music for me, I'm still open minded! I thought maybe some of you would be interested in the same thing, so please share anything from your culture or country of origin! If it's another language other than English maybe try to provide a little explanation.

I'll start us with some tunes:

Aram Asatryan - Hay es du (Armenian music and lyrics)
http://xjar2.narod.ru/arm_music/ARAM..._hay_es_du.mp3
Possibly the most well-known Armenian songs out there - the singer who died fairly recently is a pop legend and this song embodies the whole Armenian pop music style REALLY well. Everybody nowadays mimics this guy.


Tata Simonyan - Yerevani axchiknerin (Armenian music and lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_oUZUlbETA
Basically a song praising the girls of Yerevan, which is the capital of Armenia. The two major themes of Armenian pop music are women and the capital city. This one combines them both for another one of the biggest pop songs.


Arsen Petrosov - Kayfuem (Armenian music, Russian lyrics)
http://xjar2.narod.ru/arm_music/Arse...ov_Kayfuem.mp3
This song is just about chilling out with a woman and "getting high on love"


(The first and third links will take you to a Russian page, just click the link that looks the same on that page in bold blue)

[Ritchie]

The Van Jets - Electric Soldiers

dEUS - The Architect
dEUS - Suds & Soda
Don't like dEUS at all (mainly cause the frontman is a fucking tard) but they're pretty popular.

I know these are English lyrics, but I honestly don't know any good Belgian band that sings in Dutch.

edit:
I can't believe I forgot this
De Kreuners - Ik Wil Je
It's not a high quality song music wise, but goddamn how many times we have sung this song in a pub

[baleent]

Shpongle
It's not my culture, but these guys are made up from musicians from around the world, and have some interesting sounds. It may be electronica, but it's not like any other. It's somewhat of an orchestra approach to electronica.

They're coming out with a new album next week (which I've got) and it's simply great. I finally got a chance to drop in and listen to the whole thing through on the iPod and there is a lot of things going on in their music that you might not notice if you don't give them enough of a chance.

www.twistedmusic.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIDCMZySHw

Shanghai Restoration Project
I don't know where their from or what their story is, but they mix oriental strings and hip hop beats into some interesting tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tU8azvaTNw

[guilty.by.association]

Originally Posted by baleent

Shpongle

I listen to this. It's good.

[baleent]

Originally Posted by guilty.by.association

I listen to this. It's good.

Then I suppose we can come to neutral terms. Have you heard the new album? Track 2 is great, I just wish they would have extended the reggae soundin bit at the end.

[guilty.by.association]

I only have their old stuff but i'll check it out

[Legham]

Australias pretty much just a bunch of different countries mashed together, so i suppose the only unique music to our "culture" would be aussie hip hop. Here would probably have to be the most well known aussie hip hop song:

[kataliv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLtq-0Ue1g

Just read about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kultur_Shock

A combination of punk, Balkan ethno music, gypsy folk and whatnot. When I first heard it I couldn't believe what I heard.

By the way, I'm from Croatia, so I guess it is music from my culture in some way.

[Legham]

Originally Posted by kataliv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLtq-0Ue1g

Just read about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kultur_Shock

A combination of punk, Balkan ethno music, gypsy folk and whatnot. When I first heard it I couldn't believe what I heard.

By the way, I'm from Croatia, so I guess it is music from my culture in some way.

I like it! Good mix of genres imo. It's like Folk Metal but weirder.

[rappo]

kataliv: awesome, thanks! Love the song, I'll have to check out some more from them It has a lot of Arabic elements (I guess since its Bosnian) which I really like!

[ska]

http://www.myspace.com/wodensthrone

awesome symphonic metal band, they aren't entirely from my area but every band from up here just open palm chugs for three minutes and calls it a song and it's pretty embarassing

[Legham]

Yay! Ska music! I haven't listened to all the songs on their myspace yet, but they sound awesome. It's like the perfect in-between of depressive black metal and the thrashy black metal.

[Atroa]

Another aussie hip-hop group:

Bliss N Eso - Then Till Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzrCp17a9k

Bliss N Eso - Sea is rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmYz-RE9YmA

Bliss N Eso - Mad tight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcOH1x3i8I0

Bliss N Eso - Party at my place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwKgZ23gc0

[victim]

In an attempt to revitalise the image of Australia after the only two bands being posted are absolutely horrible:

Yves Klein Blue (Myspace) - A kind of good mix between Indie Pop and Rock.

Los Capitanes (Myspace) - A heavy ska sound... Fairly bril.

[DemonKing]

Speaking of Aussie bands.

Anyone here heard of Be'Lakor?

If you're a fan of melodic death metal, deffo check these guys out.