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3 unusual facts about World Music


Adrian von Ziegler

Although Adrian says he makes lots of different music styles, he focuses mainly on Celtic music, Emotional, Relaxing, Dark Alternative music, World music, Metal music, and on Film Music, according to his Facebook fanpage.

Everything and Nothing

The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.

Gui Mallon

In Europe he formed different groups to perform his compositions and arrangements in various styles: contemporary, world, jazz and classical.


98.4 Capital FM

The presenters are large, engaging personalities who play a mixture of Hip Hop, RnB, Rock, Neo Soul, New Jack Swing, World Music, Jazz, Techno and Dance music, transcending gender, all age groups, backgrounds and cultural boundaries (see the Show Schedule below.) Capital FM was the first ever Kenyan station to play Rock music- and has continuously been dubbed- the home and only home of the best rock music.

Alabina

Alabina is a French-based group that performs a mix of world music: Middle Eastern, Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Spanish Gypsy music.

Alla Rakha

Hart, a published authority on percussion in world music, said "Alla Rakha is the Einstein, the Picasso; he is the highest form of rhythmic development on this planet." Alla Rakha also collaborated with jazz drummer Buddy Rich, on their 1968 album Rich à la Rakha.

Below the Waste

The album saw the group experimenting with world music, collaborating with South African Zulu group Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, who provide a heavy layer of mostly non-English-language vocals on three tracks (Yebo, Chain Gang and Spit).

Chablis

Each year the Festival du Chablisien is held May to June in Chablis, featuring classical, jazz, and world music.

David Starfire

His signature fusion of world music with hip-hop and breakbeats has led to him becoming a veteran of the international festival circuit that includes performances at Burning Man, Coachella, Earthdance, and Lightning in a Bottle.

Deliria

Inspired by authors like Charles de Lint, Erik Davis and Francesca Lia Block, films like Edward ScissorHands and Practical Magic, world music and ethereal wave music, and TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Deliria's setting emphasizes "normal people" over superheroes.

La Compañia del Tango Nomada

La Compañia del Tango Nomada is a project in World Music in Mexico City, which was created by Carla Borghetti and Iván Peñoñori.

Larry Bitensky

He is currently the Charles T. Hazelrigg Associate Professor of Music at Centre College in Danville, KY, where he teaches music theory, composition, aural skills, and world music.

Lucy Durán

She is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 3's world music programme World Routes and a producer of record albums by African musicians including Kora player Toumani Diabate, singer Kasse Mady Diabate, ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate and Sephardic singer Yasmin Levy.

Mediterrânic Ensemble

José Carlos Severino (Mandolin, Laud & Effects) and Mário Bacelar (Nylon String Guitar & Effects) are join in the Spring of 2004 and with them the Mediterrânic Ensemble, original World/Folk Fusion Music is born.

Minos EMI

Parent company EMI had released music from Minos EMI's back catalogue through other EMI companies, such as under their world music label EMI Hemisphere and EMI Classics, in a collaboration between Gerald Seligman, EMI Hemisphere founder and Vangelis Yannopoulos, Minos EMI A&R and Strategic Manager.

Moravian traditional music

Hradišťan, a well-known traditional folk band, later turned away from folklore and focused on fusion in various world music projects (Yas-Kaz, Dizu Plaatjies and Altai-Kai collaborations among others).

Mostar Sevdah Reunion

Mostar Sevdah Reunion is a world-fusion musical ensemble from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina playing almost exclusively sevdalinka fused with contemporary musical styles.

Music of Buryatia

Their collaborations with La MaMa theater in New York in late 1990s led to their embrace of traditional music and shamanic roots too, and eventually to formation of the group Namgar that represents Buryat traditional music at world music festivals since 2001.

Para Sa Tao

"Para Sa Tao" (English: "For The People") is a Philippine world music song by HUMANFOLK from their eponymous first album; composed by guitarist Johnny Alegre in 2009, and which became the group's carrier hit single.

Paulo Baldi

Also well known for his ability as a hand-drummer, Baldi recently completed a tour of Egypt playing hand drums in a U.S. group, and has appeared with San Francisco world music band Ali Khan.

PBA-FM

Each night specialist programs broadcast a specific genre of music, ranging from Classical, World, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, Progressive Rock and Rhythm & Blues.

Port Fairy Folk Festival

At first concentrating on Irish traditional music and culture, the focus has subsequently broadened to include a diverse range of styles and influences, from Blues/Roots to World Music.

Radio Tarifa

Radio Tarifa was a Spanish World music ensemble combining Flamenco, Arab-Andalusian music, Arabian music, Moorish music and also influences of the Mediterranean, of the Middle Ages and of the Caribbean.

Roland Haerdtner

His repertoire includes various musical styles such as world music as well as pop music and jazz on the one hand, and is leading within classical music from baroque through romanticism up to the contemporary music, on the other hand.

Ronald Snijders

In his compositions he often draws on Kaseko, a musical genre of his homeland, but also to elements of pop and world music.

Soukous

About this same time, the Nairobi-based Congolese vocalist Samba Mapangala and his band Orchestra Virunga, released the LP Malako, which became one of the pioneering releases of the newly emerging world music scene in Europe.

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band

The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, sometimes known as Mooseheart Faith, is a Los Angeles based rock band blending 1960s folk rock and psychedelia, 1970s space rock and progressive rock and a variety of influences from world music and jazz.

The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa

The Rough Guide To Acoustic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring acoustic music spanning Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution

The Rough Guide To Arabic Revolution is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring music relating to the contemporaneous Arab Spring revolutionary wave.

The Rough Guide to English Roots Music

The Rough Guide to English Roots Music is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998.

The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa

The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 2012 featuring 60s and 70s African popular music.

The Rough Guide to the Music of Central America

The Rough Guide to the Music of Central America is a world music compilation album originally released in 2001.

The Rough Guide to the Music of North Africa

The Rough Guide to the Music of North Africa is a world music compilation album originally released in 1997.

The Rough Guide to the Music of Portugal

The Rough Guide to the Music of Portugal is a world music compilation album originally released in 1998.

The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal

The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013.

The Rough Guide to the Music of the Andes

The Rough Guide to the Music of the Andes is a world music compilation album originally released in 1996.

The Rough Guide to Voodoo

The Rough Guide To Voodoo is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring music inspired and influenced by the Voodoo religious tradition (from West African Vodun to New World Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and related movements).

The Soft Moon

The Soft Moon's music covers a wide range of genres including EBM, Krautrock, synthpunk, psychedelia, world music and darkwave.

Tom Gorrio

Spanish music and Latin dance were a large part of Tom's life growing up and have had an influence on his music, which has a distinctly Spanish and world music themes.

Vandana Vishwas

Indo-Canadian Architect-Musician Vandana Vishwas is an exponent of south Asian genre of World Music in North America.

WEGL

WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.

WIDR

The library comprises mainly CDs from a number of non-mainstream or alternative record labels and represents styles ranging from alternative, jazz and hip-hop to electronic, world and experimental music.

World Bank Infoshop

The shop also sells children's books, world music CDs, books and audio for learning languages, gifts, and stationery supplies with the World Bank logo.


see also

2007 World Music Awards

This year's World Music Awards was sponsored by English fashion brand Belstaff, one of the best known companies in its field with many products appearing in Hollywood blockbuster movies including Mission Impossible III, Ocean's Twelve and The Departed.

Achilla Orru

His 2004 album Dho-Mach (Sacred Gift) was nominated for the 2005 Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.

Amy X Neuburg

Her multi-layered compositions incorporate musical styles including opera, rock, Medieval music, and world music.

Artown

The festival has also created unique events including Discover the Arts, a hands-on arts program drawing more than 3,400 children annually; Movies in the Park, an outdoor screening of classic and cutting-edge films; Monday Night Family Series, featuring kid-friendly performances from marionettes to music; and, the World Music Series, bringing diverse musical entertainment from around the globe including David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness, Mariachi Sol de Mexico and San Jose Taiko.

Beaver Harris

In addition, Harris founded a "world music" band and called it "The 360 Degree Music Experience".

Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

A collection of ethnomusicological recordings or world music, mostly on phonographs (cylinder records) assembled since 1900 in Berlin, Germany and

Bluegrass mandolin

David Grisman - creator of the "Dawg music" style, blending bluegrass, jazz, folk, and Old World music

Bread and salt

The famous Macedonian and ex-Yugoslav ethno-jazz-rock group of even more famous world music guitarist, Vlatko Stefanovski, had the name "Leb i Sol", which means "bread and salt" and speaks itself about this term of hospitality as something basic and traditional.

Cedric Brooks

After a single, "Demauungwani", the group recorded their first album for the Institute of Jamaica, From Mento to Reggae to Third World Music, a collection exploring the history of Jamaican music, incorporating mento, junkanoo, ska, rocksteady, and reggae.

Chris Batchelor

He was also very active at this time as a member of legendary world music trailblazers 3 Mustaphas 3, as well as enjoying a varied diet of gigs with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Congolese soukous band Taxi Pata Pata and Ashley Slater's Microgroove.

Doming Lam

Lam was named Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) at its World Music Days in Hong Kong in 2007.

Édouard Ferlet

At the same time, he continued to play with singers from various backgrounds: Mark Murphy in Jazz, Manda Djin in Gospel, Geoffrey Oryema in World Music and Lambert Wilson in cabaret.

Ethnoambient

Ethno ambient is related in spirit to techno tribal, ethno techno, and especially to "Fourth World" music and "ambient" music, launched in the late 1970s by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, respectively.

Gaelic Storm

A Simlish version of the song, Scalliwag, from the album Bring Yer Wellies, was recorded and featured on the World music channel in the expansion pack, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, for the popular PC Game, The Sims 2.

Hiroshi Izawa

Izawa has chaired organizations including the World Music Festival of Peace, the Yomiuri Giants Fan Appreciation Day, and the Tokyo International Marathon.

Idris Rahman

Rahman has performed and recorded as a saxophonist with Osibisa, Ayub Ogada, Dodgy, Reem Kelani, Julia Biel and many more jazz and world music/reggae artists.

Inna Zhelannaya

The song Tolko s Toboy (With You Only) was included in the Putumayo World Music compilation (featuring also Peter Gabriel, Gypsy Kings, Bob Marley, Johnny Clegg among others) which led to Farlanders’ traveling to the USA when they toured the East Coast, starting in Washington DC.

Karen Tweed

She is the main piano accordion tutor at the World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland and a regular tutor at the BMus Degree in folk and traditional music at Newcastle University and The Sage Gateshead.

Kroke

The same year, KROKE received a nomination in the World Music category from BBC Radio 3 for the album Quartet – Live at Home (with Tomasz Grochot on drums, who went on to tour with the band over the next few years) as well as working with Edyta Geppert, which would later bring about the joint release Śpiewam życie (2006).

La Llamada

Howard Blumenthal wrote in his book The World Music CD Listener's Guide that "La Llamada" is an "energetic" song.

Lark Camp

Lark Camp World Music, Song & Dance Celebration, originally called Lark in the Morning Music Celebration, is an American annual week-long world music and dance celebration that includes dozens of instructional workshops for both professional and beginner musicians and dancers.

Lenny Seidman

Lenny Seidman (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a tabla musician/composer and World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Lenny has given workshops nationally, teaches tabla and rhythm theory privately and is the World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Les Percussions de Guinée

In 2002, World Music Productions Inc. arranged for Les Percussions de Guinée to appear in the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.

Luxembourg Sinfonietta

It also participated in the "World Music Days 2007" in Hong Kong and travelled to Beijing and Chengdu during its China tour in 2008.

Manooghi Hi

They have performed at festivals including Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Austin’s SXSW music conference, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah, Oregon Country Fair in Eugene Oregon, Salem Oregon’s “World Music Festival” and Darrington, Washington’s Summer Meltdown.

Martin Lee Stephenson

He also worked within the folk music, neo-folk and World music genres with notable musicians Kuljit Bhamra, Faye Rochelle, Stefan Hannigan, Michael Garrick, Ben Clark {sine}, Ray Hearn,Henry Thomas, Nick Beggs, Chi2, Eduardo,Gary Crosby, Saskia Tomkins and Nigel Eaton.

Michael Pisaro

It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991), Glasgow (INSTAL, 2009), Berlin (Maerzmusik, 2010), Sonorités (Montpellier, 2011) and others.

Mike Heron

The first of these, Smiling Men with Bad Reputations, released in 1971 when still a member of the ISB, took eclecticism to a new extreme, blending rock, folk and world music into an atmospheric whole.

Music of Solomon Islands

One of the songs, a lullaby named "Rorogwela", sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita woman, was used as a vocal sample in a 1992 single "Sweet Lullaby" by the French electronica duo Deep Forest, becoming a worldwide hit, but also causing some controversy over perceived "pillaging" of the world music heritage by Western musicians.

Musica Piccolyno

In this program, animation, CG and scientific experiments present diversified, originals view of world music and various genres.

Nawal 2009

However, it regained its top spot the following week beating Nancy Ajram's World Music Award Winning Song "Bitfakar Fee Eih" and Najwa Karam's "Ma Bkhabee Alaik".

Para Sa Tao

On November 27, 2012, the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) conferred the Awit Award to HUMANFOLK for "Para Sa Tao" as Best World Music Recording.

Pasha Hristova

1971: "Този дивен свят" (This Wondrous World) (music and original lyrics by Czesław Niemen, Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev) / "Когато си отидеш" (When You Go) (Bulgarian lyrics by Bogomil Gudev)

Rajeev Taranath

He has also served as the head of the Indian music program at the World Music Department of the California Institute of the Arts from 1995 to 2005.

Robert Maier

He was also line producer of four feature-length world music documentaries for BMG Films by documentarian Robert Mugge.

Shantel

Shantel released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music.

Sheila Surban

Sheila Surban used to sing mostly pop and RnB type of music but as soon she moved to Finland in May 2006, She began working with Sakari Kukko, the founding member of Piirpauke, a band that is famous for playing world music.

Sila and the Afrofunk Experience

Hailed as one of the Top 5 Afropop albums of the year by NPR, "Black President" won the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding World Music Album (over better-known artists like Zap Mama and Omou Sangare).

SKRUK

SKRUK has a varied repertoire, influenced by Norwegian folk music, spirituals, world music, and jazz, and has collaborated with many musicians, including Tord Gustavsen, Henning Sommerro, and Brilliant Dadashova.

Vilanova International World Music Festival

This festival belongs to the most selected group of world music festivals in Spain: Etnosur (Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía), Getxo (Basque Country), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena, Murcia), Ortigueira (Galicia), and Pirineos Sur (Aragón).

WUKY

WUKY also airs A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, This American Life, On The Media, Whad'Ya Know, and other syndicated shows, and diverse, locally-produced programs for fans of Blues, female rock, Americana and World music.