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Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - kajsa239 - 24-11-2014
I was browsing threads and I haven't found anything about this kind of music. Yes, there was something about music from Hawaii or Asia but I mean something different of that...
Folk music for most of users may resemble with American country music, do I see? But I live in Europe and people understand folk music in different way here. For people in Europe folk music and ethno and world are almost the same definitions.
Folk is music made by ordinary people. They weren't popular artists. The songs weren't written. They were passed on by oral, do you see (I still learn English, I can't sometimes write what I mean)?
Folk, traditional, ethno and world music is strictly connected with a village tradition. People used to sing when they were working in field for example. People used to sing during weddings, funerals, rituals etc.
People don't sing today as often as they sang once upon a time. It's not good. It was beautiful tradition, the songs connected people. There are bands which want to revive and remind the songs today, but the tradition is still disappearing.
I'm going to show you some of traditional songs.
First song, 'Zoriuszka' is from Siberia, Russia. This song tells about a girl who must leave her village, bacause she's going to get married. 'Zoriuszka' is a 'sunny' in Russian. This song was sung in the wedding's morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyadcxoO2q0
Second song is "Letila zozula czerez moju chatu" ('The cuckoo was flying across my cottage'). The sad song tells about a girl who fell in love which na Cossack who is married and has children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pytu3F5T-bY
Third song is from Serbia. This is 'Rasti, rasti, moj zeleni bore' ('Grow, grow, my green pine'). It tells about the beauty of a nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heyQDinhZEA
And the last song in this post is a mix of tradtional melody and lyrics and electro arrangement. It is 'Iszol brat' ('The brother was going/was walking'). The song tells about a boy who was walking with his sister through a forrest and the girl drowned. It tells also about mysterious ceratures from Slavic tradition - when a nature is a witness of everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGrzKV1L1w
I'm going to show you next songs. I hople you enjoy them.
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - jazzboCR - 24-11-2014
This post is much welcomed--as you pointed out, there isn't enough of this material here. Especially appreciated are the click-throughs to songs to illustrate your points. Keep up the good work and come back with more--your audience will be small but fervent.
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - kajsa239 - 26-11-2014
Today I'm going to show you songs from my country. I'm from Poland and we have a varied folk music tradition here. There are different melodies and ways of singing in the mountains (South Poland) and different melodies and ways of singing on the East Poland for example.
First song is "Hej, Krywaniu, Krywaniu wysoki" ('Hey, Krywań, high Krywań'). It's about the peak Krywań in the Tatra Mountains. Polish Gorals have a very alive singing tradition and they are very proud of it. Today Gorals are the most musical ethnic grup in Poland. Tradition in other etnic groups is still disappearing but Gorals are still game to singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGCDy2rK0z4
OK, another folk song from Polish mountains is "Tomu kosa". It's from very interesting region Łemkowszczyzna in Bieszczady Mountains (in English Lemkivshchyna but I'm not sure if it's correctly). This region is in a part of Poland, in a part of Ukraine and in a part of Slovakia. Lemkos (people who live there) like Gorals from Tatra Mountains are very proud of their culture and tradition and their tradition is still alive. The song "Tomu kosa" tells probably about harvest but I don't know Rusyn language as well as I know Ukrainian or Russian. By the way, the interesting point is that if I listen to the folk songs and I read their lyrics, I get to know the languages better because they are similar to Polish language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9cef4Qw1J8
Third Polish song I would like to show you is "Kołysanka Konopna" ('Hemp Lullaby'). A mother is asking to her son for sleep. She's singing that when he grows up, he will help her with works like grazing cows. It's and old song and once upon a time even small 5-year-old children had to help their family with working. The song is from East Poland, as fair as I recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw8Sz46ZHnc
The song "Pada deszczyk" ('It's raining') is from Suwałki Region in the North-East Poland. It tells about raining but not only... It's about unhappy love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VowzkYN8Stw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTqwfHOyuTA (2nd version with instruments)
And the last song for today is "Kupalnocka" ('The Kupala Night'). This song is about rituals connected with the Slavic Midsummer Night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biXKqLpr8Hw
It's all for today but I will show you next songs, not only from Poland. My English isn't as good as I would like to but I hope you understand me.
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - jubiso - 28-12-2014
Nice topic. Too bad it does not have much following. I can add my two cents by pointing at a website that I have been using for the past year or so. You can find it here - World Music by EthnoCloud. I would say it is a bit like SoundCloud, but it is only for world music. They have pretty cool stuff.
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - kajsa239 - 11-01-2015
Hello. I hope that there will be more people interested in this kind of music. I'm going to show you the Ukrainian song "Kopav kopav krinichenku". I don't know Ukrainian well but it's similar to Polish and I think that the song is probably about a man who loves a girl who is going to get married another man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgX9k9G_R0
Have someone heard of Dikanda? This is Polish group which sings world music. There are great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERgSeDYk0H0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWgz39ycg84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTsgBb9-tI
I love their music!
Balkan songs are very interesting too. For example this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqaJ-o9EX4 .
And finally I want to show you the song "Żeni me mamo" ('Mother, marry me off'). This is Macedonian song. The song I want to show you is with electro arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMgst3fLHE .
I hope you enjoy the songs!
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - falconvray - 13-01-2015
I really enjoy ethnic influenced ambient music, like Rasplyn
[video=youtube;5FxPYjWGMuc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FxPYjWGMuc[/video]
Ethno / world / folk / traditional music - SteveO - 13-01-2015
^ Excellent track! I love it! Welcome aboard the Great MD, falconvray!