Post your country's Music

Been feeling slightly patriotic about Trinidad lately. Coming to terms with the fact that it's probably going to be my last year living here, and while excited about what awaits, I'm definitely torn up about leaving. Always thought you could tell alot about a place by the type of music it produces.

For those that don't know, it's a small island in the southern Caribbean, very very close to Venzezuela, with one  of the most diverse populations and cultures in the world - especially for it's size. Alot of these songs will talk about unity, something that was and still is fundamental for progress here, due to the high degree of cultural plurality and attempts by political parties to feed off that plurality to encourage political partisanship.

My Personal Favorites

Black Stalin - We can make it if we try:

Nah Leavin - Denyse Plummer:

Trini to de Bone - David Rudder:

Let us build a nation together - Merchant:

Jahaji Bhai - Brother Marvin:

Ganges an the Nile - David Rudder:

Still the best - Cro Cro:

Caribbean Unity - Black Stalin:

Slave - The mighty Sparrow:

It's Carnival - Destra:

Soca Warrior - Maximus Dan:

3 canal - Good Morning Neighbor:

3 canal - Talk Yuh Talk:

3 canal - Boom up History:

Benjai - Trini:

 

The best ones in my country are mostly sufi/classical music, mix of Arabic, Indian, Persian and Pashtun culture

First of all Pakistani music is known for one thing that is Qawwali and the name nusrat fateh ali khan, arguably one of the greatest Asian singer and his family has a 600 year old family tradition

Here are some of his songs (all live) and his nephews, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Some other from different Languages/regions

Punjabi language

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Balochistan- Brahui  Language

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Pashto Music

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Some Randoms oldies i like

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Butt wrote:The best ones in my country are mostly sufi/classical music, mix of Arabic, Indian, Persian and Pashtun culture

First of all Pakistani music is known for one thing that is Qawwali and the name nusrat fateh ali khan, arguably one of the greatest Asian singer and his family has a 600 year old family tradition

Here are some of his songs (all live) and his nephews, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Some other from different Languages/regions

Punjabi language

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Balochistan- Brahui  Language

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Pashto Music

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Some Randoms oldies i like

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If there's one thing our country is still good at, it's making music.
The Zeb & Haniya one actually Dari (Persian).

Here's another one I love. Its Punjabi:

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In India, which is a multi-lingual country, the is no shortage of music. There are thousands of amazing songs in each languages. Even though I only understand Malayalam, I enjoy the Hindi, Tamil and other songs as much.

Film songs are an integral part of our culture and i will show some songs which are considered classics(mind you, there are thousands of others which can be as good or better)

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goonbrain wrote:In India, which is a multi-lingual country, the is no shortage of music.   There are thousands of amazing songs in each languages. Even though I only understand Malayalam, I enjoy the Hindi, Tamil and other songs as much.

Film songs are an integral part of our culture and i will show some songs which are considered classics(mind you, there are thousands of others which can be as good or better)

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One side of my family descend from indentured immigrants from India. They still retain quite a bit of Indian culture, and because of that I've been exposed to quite alot of Indian Film,Music, religious practices and all these things.

My father and especially my grandparents enjoy all the various elements of the Indian arts. I'll be honest though, I've never really felt attached to my Indian heritage. I thank god my ancestors emigrated, because there's a 50/50 chance I end up in a slum or begging on the streets.

Here's one of the ones that stuck with with me quite alot and actually found it's way onto my ipod lol. I'm Sure you know it.

Mangalam - Gharesham:

@Butt I actually enjoy Islamic music, particularly quasidas and the classical elements. Just from the music you can just tell that these are a really peaceful people.

Turbonegro (inventors of the Death Punk genre):

Röyksopp (Electronic):

Datarock (Electronic):

Thomas Dybdahl (Mellow, acoustic, rock, jazz):

The National Bank (Thomas Dybdahl side-project):

Kings of Convenience (Acoustic, feelgood):

Black Debbath (Metal):

Mikhael Paskalev (Pop, rock):

Kaizer's Orchestra (Rock, Norwegian vocals):

Madcon (Pop, rap, electronic):

Karin Park (Pop):

Briskeby (Pop, rock):

Off the top of my head :p

well apart from all the military related bullshit
here you go

LoL you guys wouldn't understand a single thing about my country's music... Will see if I can dig up some and post them later on.

Polish hiphop/trap

Probably the most Iconic Japanese song on youtube:

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This thread needs more traffic, I wanna hear some of the cool songs that aren't in English, or are in English but aren't really mainstream.

Polish trap:







Pop:

The Salvadoran Avant-Garde:

Home of the best music in Asia

Thanks for sharing mate

i'll listen to it tomorrow (once the thread is done loading)

Warrior wrote:Thanks for sharing mate

i'll listen to it tomorrow (once the thread is done loading)

You'll be waiting until the end of time for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kt8HP1VEPU

Link if you want to expedite that process.

oh wow posting a link automatically does that video. Impressive

Meiko Nakahara - Fantasy (1982)

Sissel Kyrkjebø is one of the most recognizable singers, and perhaps the most famous, female Soprano Norway has ever produced. These days, she's mostly known for doing a lot of songs in dubbed Disney movies, but she used to be the shit, back around the time when I was born. I stumbled upon this song on Youtube, and it took me a while before I realized that she was singing in Norwegian. At first, I assumed it was Japanese

I want to hear whats hip in other countries, cmon guys

some South African rap, got some talented underground cats

i love the soft piano chord in the one below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIbU6YcGjo

and this one below has got an Eminem "Infinite" sound to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En5GnFECwwM

Old school Japanese rap


Probably the best single by the most influential rap group on the island at that point. Gaku goes off at 1:50 and he pretty much changed the way everybody rapped in Asia for 10 or so years.

Myesyats wrote:I want to hear whats hip in other countries, cmon guys

In terms of hipness, it would be the likes of Kygo and Allan Walker, but I'd rather post something people haven't already heard (of). That said, I hardly ever listen to music these days and what I've heard of Norwegian pop lately has been absolute crap.

These two are probably our most popular, non-electronic pop artists, nowadays.