/trad/ general

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I just started uploading the Nonesuch Explorer series. Unfortunately, XLD doesn't work like I wanted it to, so I haven't compressed them to MP3s. Instead, they're the exact FLAC files from what.cd, so anyone who wants to seed a bit of free stuff could potentially grab these files and just link the torrents.

I've been trying to explore Tamil folk music recently. Unfortunately it's pretty difficult to find high-quality files, even though folk music is pretty popular in Tamilnadu and tons of Tamil pop music incorporates folk elements. I have had some luck finding actual pure folk on film soundtracks (the primary source of music in India) though again it's not always easy to find them in high quality.

Also I keep winding up in weird detours into Punjabi folkhop, which I don't even like that much. I did find some pretty cool pure folk Punjabi songs today though.

>>53180135
Is there much difference between Tamil music and Carnatic music?

In case you're interested, I have pastbinned every entry in Oxford Music for India, you can find it here:
http://www.last.fm/group/Electos+Filios+Gustus/forum/1276056/_/2223863

What does your map look like?

http://explr.fm/

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>>53180335
Interesting tool. It doesn't look very accurate, though. I know for a fact that I have scrobbled music from Madagascar, for example, but it shows up as 0. I'm guessing it reads the last.fm tags, which for the vast majority of my traditional folk music scrobbles don't have the country in the tags, if there are any at all.

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>>53180408

>>53180201
Uh... Carnatic music is South Indian classical, and since South Indian culture tends to be dominated by Tamil stuff (though it also incorporates the Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam groups), I guess you could call it a type of Tamil music. Chennai is generally considered the main centre of Carnatic music.

I don't consider classical music to be folk, though. Tamil folk music is generally unpolished and often danced to, played in rural areas by people of lower castes, so it's almost diametrically opposite to classical music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPAd-jOedeU
This is a pretty good example of purer folk music, though it's from a popular film. I was actually pretty impressed with how authentic this soundtrack was, especially given that I usually don't click with Yuvan's soundtracks for whatever reason.

>>53180428
w2c shirt?

>>53180432
Ah, fair enough. That sounds pretty interesting, I too might want to try and dig something up.

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25% done now. I wish mega cons didn't slow down speeds when another tab is focused. Should have probably hosted it on my ftp instead, would've been much much faster.

More Tamil music, just because I just found this song again and it's one of my favourite examples of pretty pure (well, once you get past the intro) folk in a film soundtrack, if only for the kombu blasts at the start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnQXxa0ilg

These are sevillanas from Lebrija, Spain. One of my favorite traditional songs ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046fuqMVWzc

i often find myself coming back to calypso music also lots of african folk influenced jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEgJhfWKq4A

kinda cool

>>53180408
Is French Guiana linked to France, or do you have artists from there?

hello Hampi
I heard some West Javan/Sundanese music recently and it was really nice. anyone know any good artists or compilations?

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>>53180408
>93 countries

Dammit

>>53181579
kinda reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lIj-oTb9UE

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>>53181624
hello turny
did you ever find that other site you were looking for that did the pie charts

>>53181656
Hey. No, I think it died, I was going to use one of them to go through my library and attach origins in the metadata property for curiosities sake, might try it with this now but not sure it will work too well.

>>53181641
whoah thats pretty

>>53181683
that whole album is great. goa psy at its best.

>>53181590
French Guiana has more in common culturally with the rest of South America than with France I'm pretty sure.

>>53181624
rekt

>>53181624
>all that scrobbled music and he still acts like a retard

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Uploads paused for a bit while I took a nap, but it's at about 85% done now. You can download quite a few albums from this folder now, so have a look through it if you want:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!xgRzSZTI!eWAjVm-Xn8BE4-untEBMnA

>>53181876
>acts like a retard
Where?

http://rbt.asia/mu/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=!!m2sscgEp%2FQx&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_media_hash=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

Alright, this finished, so I'll drop the link and some tags so people can find it in the archive:

Nonesuch Explorer Series, entire collection in FLAC

https://mega.co.nz/#F!xgRzSZTI!eWAjVm-Xn8BE4-untEBMnA

folk traditional world africa asia south america

ay lmoa

>tfw /mu/ doesn't care about /trad/ music

>>53182640
thanks, that's great

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bump with a recent favorite

Ensemble Aznach - Zoura (2001)
>Chechen folk songs from Georgia
https://mega.co.nz/#!UJ0jWAbQ!Vn6QM8zdrgzcaZBgMJO045sUTja4XiQgyDqwRVpDpy4

>>53182640
thank you for the uploads, i'm adding everything to my backlog.

>>53184592
Thanks, eastern Europe in general has great folk music. Is this FLAC?

>>53185438
no, it's just generic Soulseek quality. i couldn't find a FLAC or even 320kbps upload of it there and i don't have a what.cd account unfortunately.

>>53185670
Ah, let me check if it's up on what.cd

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>>53185670
Nah, but there's another album they appear on. You want it?

>Songs of Defiance: Music of Chechnya and the North Caucasus

>>53185723
seems interesting, i'd be glad if you could upload it.

>>53186348
Absolutely, give me a few minutes.

>>53180432
Is that Benny lava or am I just racist?

>>53186348
Here you go!

https://mega.co.nz/#!91hF1TBR!8fgw36M4fdWoirZlQTD9CD2cceBLLeFeAdKGzg12zpg

rofl le autistic swedish guy maymay :6)
what a classic
well played anon

>>53187408
le meeems

>>53187009
listening to it already, thanks a lot!

>>53187638
You're welcome.

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I guess this would be the place to ask? I heard the closing songs of Selma and kind of fell in love with them. So my question is do you guys have any recs or ideas for similar stuff(old time spirituals sung by a chorus of people) or really anything in that vein.

>>53187804
Can you post a YouTube link or something as a sample?

>>53187834
I don't really know if there is anything there because I don't know what to search for I guess you would've had to see the movie to understand.

does anyone have the alan lomax prison songs recordings handy? they're spectacular.

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>>53188016
Too bad, I can't really see if I have any recommendations without knowing what to recommend based on.

>>53188186
Which one do you want?

>>53188331
nvm, bb. finally got a decent seeder on rutracker. thx for the offer tho.

these are the ones for reference:
http://www.culturalequity.org/pubs/ce_pubs_cds_prisonsongs.php