I started a similar thread a while back - asking for "quirky" tracks - maybe quirky = odd? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...ghlight=quirky
Here's an odd one anyway:
I started a similar thread a while back - asking for "quirky" tracks - maybe quirky = odd? http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...ghlight=quirky
Here's an odd one anyway:
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Make your own odd recording: Take a recording of crickets chirping and slow it down using Audacity or whatever. The result can sound uncannily like a choir of human voices: http://insearchofsimplicity.com/2010...cricket-choir/
Hello Jeff,
Thanks for the note of appreciation. If we expand your requirements of 'odd' to 'interesting', and if you like "world" music then I can recommend:
Anything by Ali Farka Toure, eg: 'Radio Mali'; 'Savane', 2006, World Circuit WCD075; (with Toumani Diabaté) In the Heart of the Moon, 2005, World Circuit WCD 072. Ali Farka Toure is Malian guitarist and Toumani Diabate plays the kora (a harp like instrument).
Ismaël Lo : 'Dabah', 2001, Wrasse 043; 'Sénégal', 2006, Wrasse 183. Music from Mali and Senegal.
Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vascocelos, 'Duas Vozes', 1985, ECM 823 640-2. Brazilian instrumentalists, playing percussion and vocal effects.
Kahled, 'Sara', 1996, Wrasse 154. Algerian folk singer.
Ballaké, Sissoko, 'Déli', 2000,Discques Label Bleu LBLC 2576. Another West African kora player.
Orchestra Baobab: 'Specialists in All Styles', 2002, World Circuit WCD 064 and 'Pirates Choice'. A constantly changing collection of West African performers including Youssou N'Dour.
'Mali & Guinea - kora kings and griot minstrals', Rough Guide CD, 2000, RGNET 1048 CD. A collection of music from Malia and Guinea.
Amadou & Mariam, 'Dimanche À Bamako', 2004, Because/Allother/Radio Bemba 3099952. Blind Malian husband and wife duo.
'Big Red - A Musical Journey Through Madegascar', 1999, Nascente NSCD 053.
Tarika, 'Son Egal', 1997, Xenophile XENO 4042. Malagasy pop group.
The History of Township Music, 2001, Wrasse 029. A collection of South African township kwela, 1944 - 1981.
Alpha Beta Gamelan, 'New Gamelan Music', 2000, ABCD 6. Don't be put off by the dreadful punning name of this group - they play 'modern' Javanese gamelan with some quirky lyrics.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 'Mustt Mustt', 1990, Realworld 0777 7862212 3. Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan is a world respected master of Qawwali - the devotional music of the Sufi sect of Islam.
Though not world music, I can also recommend more or less anything by The Penguin Café Orchestra, e.g. 'Music from the Penguin Café', 1976, Virgin EG EEGCD 27.
Finally most titles on the ECM label are worth investigating (if you have the time - the catalogue is vast), and so to is the work of The Kronos Quartet.
That about exhausts my recommendations. I have heard all of them as well as those mentioned in my previous post and do own copies of most of them, so can recommend from experience.
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Barry