El Perro de Arena's INTERNATIONAL Juke Box

It's time for even more musical diversity, folks. What lyrical gems are scattered about our teeny, tiny planet?

I'll start with an uplifting Chutney ditty from Rakesh,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yESpw0kTVd4

I am appalled by the substitution of the basic keyboard for the harmonium, otherwise good stuff.

It's indeed, just delightfully tacky, Harsh-man.

Ok, ok, I've posted this before, but Lucero is such a wicked babe, and oh, those sequins and 'staches and mullets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPbfnsue56E

The Black Door

It's closed already with three padlocks
and riveted the black door
because your parents are jealous
and are afraid that I love you

They must think that being enclosed
will make you stop loving me soon
but not even the door or one hundred padlocks will
be able stop me

But the door is not responsable
that inside you are crying
you love me and I love you
the black door is superfluous

Ask your father and mother
if they ever enjoyed love
if they loved each other was the door
the black door also closed for them

But the door is not responsable
that inside you are crying
you love me and I love you
the black door is superfluous

Yay! A new music thread!

I've posted this before also, but was listening to it in the sun (in between showers) in the grimy old Italian dude cafe/lair by my house yesterday, and I got so happy. Sorry if you get the ad that begins with blood and gore.

Since I was a young man (23), I've dreamed about going to Chennai and having it be like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGaIczd-J-0&feature=related

You have to go to a sari shop on weekends, Martin

salsa from Yuri. A big hit at Marciac three years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_kAtTBUDIA

Ethiopia...Aster Aweke...KABU:

http://youtu.be/JGFVxLq3th8

>4 MeditationesMartini:

A great song, Martin, but next time please provide a translation in English.

...And that also goes for any contributions from Ozzie Osbourne

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=translate+ozzie+osbourne&oq=tran...

>7 baswood:

Fantástico, fabuloso, Bass!

jeez, martin, the pogues have 37 better songs than that

i don't know how to put youtube here, but if i did i would put the love song from love and anarchy by wertmuller

I was SITTING in the SUNSHINE, Rick. Here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sJhGdCQz-Y&feature=related

>10 RickHarsch:

A chipper song with lyrics like,

"With a heartful of hate and a lust for vomit"?

I dunno, I think it is up there on the list.

> 2

'Speaking of substitution, here's a couple of North-country throat singers. Using microphones (!?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnPh3GGykaI&feature=related

In the old days, you would use your opponent's/partner's mouth to provide resonance.

And, you probably wouldn't dress like that...

Pondering Pogues Sunny Side of the Street.....i can move it up two notches, maybe three

Well, drop some science on us, Rick.

Add your correspondences, subtract the sappy riff, listen to dogs...There you have it, adds up to midway tween two and three.

Mariachi - La bamba anyone.

Dig this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91vOiK9BvkI

Great old tune!

And, in memory of Erwin Frankel who just passed, here's something from one of Frankel's "discoveries", Sabicas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VROY01EAg

Good night, from Norway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpoge9tEK9o&feature=related

Loved the guitar #19. A flamenco player that is new to me.

Well, if we're doing Bollywood, my favorite is a Bollywood/Israeli fusion number:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQOLO4U5iQ

That was wild. 'How about a bit of Bluegrass/Israeli fusion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snN3Ecu1hmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnfIrmzUBzI

Mercedes Sosa y Maria Graña

Nada

I've made it to your house ...
I do not know how I was able
They told me you are not there,
That you'll never come back again ..
They told me that you're gone!
So much snow on my soul!
Such silence at your door!
Upon reaching the threshold,
A lock made of pain
Stopped my heart

Nothing, nothing is left of the house where your were born...
Only the yuyal weaving cobwebs.
The rose bush no longer exists
It surely died when you left.
Everything weighs like a cross!
Nothing, nothing but sadness and stillness...
No one to tell me if you still live.
Where are you... that I can tell you
That today I've come back repentant
looking for your love.

Now I'm leaving your house
and I don't even know where I'm going ...
Without wanting to I say goodbye
And even the echo of your voice
Out of nowhere replies to me.
In your lock's cross
For your pity I have prayed ...
And in your gate trickled
A tear turned into ​​flower
coming from my poor heart

Nothing, nothing is left of the house where your were born...
Only the yuyal weaving cobwebs.
The rose bush no longer exists
It surely died when you left.
Everything weighs like a cross!
Nothing, nothing but sadness and stillness...
No one to tell me if you still live.
Where are you... that I can tell you
That today I've come back repentant
looking for your love.

It was a full-moon, just a couple days ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3MVbKp7xEI&feature=related

These Latvians are better than the Go-Gos and the Bangles, and they all have really cool head gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-99VOCqTcU

Seriously, it's actually quite beautiful.

Here's an upbeat, techo dance number, sung in Hebrew (I'm supposing). It's a promo for a party at a Tel Aviv gay bar called Arisa.

ARISA 21.4 LIAT BANAY LIVE!

I, for one, find it wonderfully refreshing to see such a different view of Israel - one that's gay, uncloseted and joyous. The light touch and sense of humor in the video are marvelous - no one in it takes themselves at all seriously.

Some flamenco from Paco:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PAgCPbl8NM

Como tradicional!

(and no Ur, he's not in standing heat)

And now some music from a "stupid" lover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p34LXgINrY&feature=related

Move! Move!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWfYew3s_Nw

I've posted this before, I know. But after St. Dawkins, my all-time favorite is St. Garcia.

>30 Sandydog1: That was GREAT!

Wasn't that the happiest number you've ever heard?

Except of course, maybe for this classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY6A5arNCQQ

This Sugary Samoan Song has a bit of a Southern twang to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQOE2IRnRw

Keep these coming Sandy Dog!

Mali in the news lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ43JGm48Lg&feature=related

Don't encourage me, Anna.

Good one, Bass.

Now, if Jimmy Page were Icelandic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKetF2PUDcY&feature=related

Yeh love the sound of Sigur Ros and thats a great track

Ethiopian pop. The video's a bit redundant, but I love the props.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbmWn_79MpE

Some good old time Arabic Music. A very noisy all male audience appreciate the wonderful Oum Kulsoum (she starts singing after about 6.30 mins) but it is hardly a juke box hit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxM_Zq9Nb3M&feature=related

For some reason it reminded me of Amalia Rodrigues:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgctURyGp4

39: My kids still listen to "enta omri" which is arguably her biggest hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPGHpBOt5sE

TangoFado came to Marciac last night, and I was there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GesgKFZVlvc&feature=relmfu

Can you imagine, bluegrass on a tamed Tahki?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sggwg4ddRj4

Great stuff Sandydog

Yes Dawg.

Hot island shouts for a hot weeked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mie4RAhadHQ

Ay-AY!

Ooh, I wasn't expecting it to be that fast! Great stuff. I was expecting more (also great stuff) this.

Wow Martini, an aquatic Burl Ives with a really, really tiny guitar!

Here's a not so authentic Russian lullaby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBc2KPDpEw&feature=related

Caparoles, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6v8JqvWs0&feature=related

Oh those costumes are awesome! I want to wear one!

We'll get you the wicked shoulder pads and whole rows of those little clacky cymbals, mejix. Or, would you prefer a micro-skirt? Ya gotta have the gams, for those, though.

I could watch those Bolivians boogie all day!

I just finished reading Carpe Diem and so, learned about these German Latin Hip-hoppers. There are some mp3 samples, from the group Ista, here:

http://www.ista-latina.de/

If the Pope could rap like that, maybe some young folk would return to the Church (!?!?)

Oh you can keep the micro-skirt. I want the shoulder pads, an electric guitar and fireworks. Hehehe.

Y los sombreros...

Ok, let's go a bit further north than Bolivia. The music is a tad monophonic, but it's still really cool. It's the season for some North American pow-wow contests.

"Here we go girls, final song!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBbi_R4tpg&feature=related

And a derivation of an ol' sneak-up, stomp and trick-song, for da boyz...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY0YZCQfv6g&feature=related

Some Madagascar pop from Tarika. Note the Indian and Indonesian influences, and the weird instruments!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCe9xsjOzE

230 million hits virtually overnight. I just HAD to!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

I realize that Korea is not a so "far away place" after all

Every country it seems is blessed by their own Elton John.

Or Ricky Martin...

It's not pop, it's Ladysmith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KCiDpYd2zU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhDu-pWmVHM

Hello from Uganda

And now for something completely different: The beard of Robertson Davies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuhEWh3M_n8

Peter Ustinov was the Chancellor of my University and his beard was almost as stunning when he handed me my degree.

Bwakukula!

The German version of Lady of Rage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoWdd4SbqE&feature=related

Adelina doing her best Beyonce imitation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q67WCUEl7dg&feature=fvwrel

Music for the primeval mood. Back to basics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFGvNxBqYFI

That's the problem with the didgeridoo. It should be so great sounding, like that, but then instead it's like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf41BGtQZ7o&feature=related.

"What a beautiful flower." Up with the Salonistas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo

'Finally getting around to reading The Worst Hard Time, which among other things, explains the influx of Catherine The Great's Volga Germans into the OK and Texas panhandles. Her successor(s) didn't keep their part of the bargain. They started conscripting and (horrors!) began taxing their brewing. Time to head out to the New World.

I'm no musicologist, but all that polka and "oom-pah" music was clearly the inspiration for banda music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFVqZYbCta4

Where do I get a Tiger-striped Zoot-suit like that!

I haven't STOPPED listening to Pastor Wilson Bugembe ever since I got back from Uganda. He seems to have become a life partner. Good for driving out the freezing rain blues in Vancouver in January.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2NZ0gnyzo0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QMpsSOTGGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fIzQ8hwEw

...And I Martin, mostly snooze and scratch at fleas, but this! I'm dancing around the room, and, and...smiling!

Great stuff for a January thaw!

"What feelings can grasp
knowledge cannot understand..."

Great music, great lyrics, Mejix

Moving now, a bit further to the west.

The Dawg's gonna show his ethnocentricity here, but all this (Malaysian) sape music sounds, so, so western! 'Almost like bluegrass. 'Almost a form of convergent evolution, no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Vhiof_BeU

and Psy is now up to 1.22 BILLION hits on Youtube.

I've created a monster. Shame on all you Salonistas for watching it ad nauseum, and playing it at your wedding receptions!

sigh...

Well, now that you've served the Salon faithfully....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Km5dZN_2j8

Aw, Istanbul, my love! Good song too. Here is what I know about the music of the former Yugoslavia--Croatian Klape:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBPdU2FjQdA

During the frost I went barefoot to my darling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8Xby0uTMQ

Gypsies go to heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQnKQC9bGoM

"Progressive" bluegrass (not able to read thru thread and make sure this is not already here but since the departure of Geneg there probably isn't a lot of 'grass posted here anymore)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPssL9W1WEA

'Great guitar music from a quirky, wacky, diverse country!

Ya know, my mom's from that country. She was a 'Bonac-ker, a townie from that geographically isolated area called East Hampton, Long Island, NY. 'Too bad she hadn't taken up with one of the locals who mowed lawns or ran fishing charters - I'd have been a millionaire today.

Anyway, at 16, she was invited to someone's house for dinner. Another guest was Senor Montoya. He played a bit of a concert before dinner, and she, clueless, could only interrupt and ask, 'When are we gonna eat?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck1bxKWFV_A

And this beats the living piss out of any other version by Metallica, Thin Lizzy or even (sacrilege!) the Grateful Dead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOIU9ekSMk

Some serene, Red River:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QfjG9V4-zE

MAH - tilda!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160rGid_TFw

Ah HA!

Some cool street guys playing the northern (Africa) music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWoJjjSolw

A great, campy video from Cambodia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4SkWG8SNRc

Perhaps it's the US flag in the background, perhaps it's Sharon making love to that bass, but I just thought this was so, so, so Amurhican,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm2fKs4Hm9M

Speaking of Norte America, here's Lucero again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P8LHdvt9TA&list=PLA0D463B6A705DB25

Some fluidity from the African continent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFgBhMVgLtg

Chup Chup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZS74l_fsa4

>57 baswood:

Psy is up to 1.8 BILLION hits on You Tube.

So much for ethnomusicology. Sigh...

But wait, there's hope!

'Another song, this one from an obscure location on the NA continent, that happened to have 1.8 MILLION hits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkVV9xxCHE

It's getting cold in the northern parts of the Salon.

It's time to head south, for some cruise control!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwe9wm5tbwo

Bog down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHGRbE-olzk

Here is Portland's own wonderful band, Pink Martini, playing a great old Egyptian song "Bokra wa ba'adu" (which means "tomorrow and the day after")

The bandleader, Thomas Lauderdale, is a personal friend and went to school with me and my sister. He is a pianist. The singer is China Forbes, who is able to sing lots of different languages by learning them totally phonetically.

The song is from an old Egyptian movie and was originally sung by great Egyptian crooner/actor Abdel Halim Hafez. I could not find an original on YouTube, unfortunately, but the Pink Martini version was pretty much like the original except for of course the singer's voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQE033rmt20

Love it!

Merry Saturnalia, Salonistas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2-Q_ObdE-4

Back to the United States, in North America. Here's the son of Charles, the famous musicologist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGQXXn51BQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eDU045u_E

This tiny world's sure as hell gonna miss him...

:( I was grieving all yesterday and telling myself not to be so sad, because 94 is a pretty long innings.

Absolutely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezyd40kJFq0

In honor of ol' Pete Seeger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVJOPiokeL4

"and he still sung and played."