Other Music that I'm listening to....

[memphis salsero]

So salsa is the common thread that ties us all together, but I'm a little bit curious to see what other ties we all have. So I'm gonna start a series of threads with random questions. The first is do any of you guys listen to music other than salsa, if so what artist do you like, what songs are nostalgic to you, beautiful, fun, etc.

[peachexploration]

Salsa is my first love but occasionally I may listen to Classical, Jazz (Sara Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, etc.) or something contemporary like Enya. Sometimes, R&B stuff from the early eighties. :)

[DeeplyDippy]

I listen to a fair bit of Brazillian jazz and samba.

Bebel Gilberto
S Tone Inc
Bossacucanova
Patricia Marx

to name a few

[salseralon]

Love reggaeton, i know alot of ppl here dont like it much, also listen to RnB and hip hop stuff too

[memphis salsero]

So I was helping a friend paint her new apartment the other day, and we listenend to Rascal Flatts and Tupac all day, something about certain country songs and old school rap that makes my happy :D

[DeeplyDippy]

Does anyone listen to Tango ?

I like the older records but do love the new stuff by the Gotan Project and BajoFondoTango Club.

[praecantricis]

I'll often listen to Jazz - I like Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney and Etta James in particular. Also have a thing for Aerosmith and Bon Jovi, but I don't talk about that much!

[memphis salsero]

I dont listen to much Tango, but there is a composer named Astor Piazolla who writes tango pieces and his music is truly some of the most beautiful I've ever heard. My guitar instructor and a sax player played one of his arrangements at a concert last year and I wanted to cry it was so moving.

I am so glad there is another dancer with a soft spot for Aerosmith and Bon Jovi, true that isnt something to be proud of, but man sometimes I just get in the mood for some cheesy rock. I started playing guitar at age 12 b/c I thought the guitarist from Aerosmith was the coolest person I'd ever seen.

I'm listening to ColdPlay as I post, any Coldplay fans in the forum?

[pr]

I dont listen to much Tango, but there is a composer named Astor Piazolla who writes tango pieces and his music is truly some of the most beautiful I've ever heard. My guitar instructor and a sax player played one of his arrangements at a concert last year and I wanted to cry it was so moving.
I have some tango CDs also! :D I started to listen to tango when I started to play the violin some years ago, because my violin teacher plays new tango music.
:arrow: w w w.nto.nu ;) (The group is called "New Tango Orquesta" and they have been outside Sweden playing their music :))

[Saz]

This is going to sound really far fetched but i listen to almost all genre's of music. People often say this but they truly don't mean it and prefer one genre to another but everyone that sits in the car with me and hears my ipod playing through my tape deck (oh yeah, kicking it old school) realises that this is true.
Alright, let's get started with the genres i can think of now:
Rock/Punk/Emo/Indie/Metal: I'm a big fan of artists such as Anberlin, Nirvana, Radiohead, Promise Ring, Metallica, Green Day, Used, Killers etc etc.
Rap/R&B/Hip-hop: Tupac, BIG, Nas, Kanye, Jodeci, JayZ, Soul 4 Real, Shai, all the old school stuff and of course there are many many more
Jazz/Blues/Oldies: Love my Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Miles Davis etc etc
My list does go on, but right now i gotta go
Of course the international stuff also exists. French, German, latin, Middle eastern, Indian etc

I have around 1000 albums (on CD) a sh#t load of burnt compilations and stuff and i've abnout 30,000 songs on my PC. Music is my life. Anyway i must boot.

[peachexploration]

Does anyone listen to Tango ?

I like the older records but do love the new stuff by the Gotan Project and BajoFondoTango Club.Yes, I like the stuff by Gotan Project as well. :)

[Claude]

When I don't listen to salsa dura, I take out my old vynils of hardcore punk, aged late 70's/early 80's.

Germs, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Plasmatics, Discharge, Subhumans, Crass, UK Subs, Sex Pistols

And regarding other different, yet near bands, I like to hear The Cramps, The Gun Club, The Nuns, The Lunachicks and many othes minors bands who followed my teenage.

I'm not keen to soft music... always been looking for wild tones...

[HothouseSalsero]

Aside from salsa, and Afro-Latin music generally, I especially like Arabic music (and some music from other traditions that are historically intertwined with Arabic music). I mostly like older (pre-80s anyway) styles of Arabic music.

I like Sun Ra. I like a small amount of other free jazz type things. I like some vocal jazz, particularly Billie Holiday, but I've also begun to enjoy Ella Fitzgerald (and expect to eventually get around to buying much more by her).

I like some music by: Jon Hassell, Fred Frith, Hans Reichel, John Fahey.

I'm still very partial to the 70s rock/soul/pop music I heard when I was a kid, but I rarely listen to it.

Speaking of Black Flag, for some reasons "Rise Above" popped into my head recently and I had to download a copy. I rarely listen to that sort of thing any more, but you never know when I will momentarily be in the mood for it.

[Cross Body Weed]

I started out as a teenage metalhead, and gradually broadened that out to include funk, soul, and jazz.

To bo honest, I don't actually listen to a lot of pure salsa outside of when I'm in a club. I have a couple of salsa compilation CDs, and a couple of CDs by Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca...but then the latter aren't pure salsa either.

[HothouseSalsero]

Lately I've been discovering what for lack of a less obnoxious term I will call "world jazz" (of course, jazz already is international) or "ethno-jazz," but anyway, jazz mixed with foreign styles of music. Just ordered a new album like this by the Sunny Jain Collective, which, as you might guess, mixes jazz with Indian elements. There is a very obscure release by someone named Bob Aves which blends jazz and traditional Filipino Kulingtang music (but played on guitar primarily) called Translating the Gongs that I'd like to get, although it only appears to be available as a download. Sometimes it seems that when two types of music I don't particularly like are combined, I am more likely to like the results than I would like either music in its pure form. I can't quite figure out what's going on with that.

Also, lately I've been discovering things that remind me of 70s pop, but fed through various more recent filters (maybe choice bits from the 80s, a dash of electronic dance, etc.). For me the Japanese singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Shiina Ringo at least partly fits into this category. Closer to home, Gnarls Barkley is this type of thing (but coming from a very different angle), with all the 70s soul borrowings.

[peachexploration]

Sounds like some interesting stuff, HHS. :)

[HothouseSalsero]

Here's a Tokyo Jihen (Shiina Ringo's current band) video:

youtube.com/watch?v=uyf9M7mt_RY&search=sounan

(I know a lot of us could post videos of our favorite non-salsa ad infinitum (is that right?), but of the songs I've heard for the first time this year, this song (in this live version), is one of my absolute favorites. Shiina Ringo reminded me how to rock out.

Sometimes I think the fact that salsa is so male-dominated makes me makes me, semi-consciously, seek out female performers, especially singers, in other types of music I listen to, in order to balance things out a bit.)

[peachexploration]

..... Shiina Ringo reminded me how to rock out....Yeah, that's true. I also hear a little throwback to The Doors. Late 60, early70s? Cool stuff. :)

[HothouseSalsero]

A little faux Latin vibe with lots of Beatlesesque touches (and some Japanese underpinnings as well):

youtube.com/watch?v=DQBWmLfxwxs&search=shiina%20ringo

(This was kind of a career summary, stitched together from earlier videos, before she went un-solo.)

Don't give me attention, I will go on and on about whatever interests me.

[peachexploration]

.....Don't give me attention, I will go on and on about whatever interests me. :lol: :lol:

Too late. We've already done it. This is Salsa Forum where all it takes is a mere mention of Salsa and any one of us will go on and on. I'd say we're pretty much used to it. ;) :D

I like the latin vibe on that one. Extreme closeup on that video. Reminds me of the Sinead O'connor video long ago.

[HothouseSalsero]

Some other favorites:


Shiina Ringo: "Yamini Furu Ame" A good example of SR successfully pulling together different musical styles (and yet, curiously poppy, despite the heavy themes). Ballet dancing.

youtube.com/watch?v=3oapIxkIjGI&search=shiina%20ringo


Shiina Ringo: "Instinct." (Warning: PG-13, some mild lesbian activity, nothing hardcore.)


youtube.com/watch?v=Up_Mmi-WYJY&search=shiina%20ringo


Tokyo Jihen: "Himitsu FOR DJ."

youtube.com/watch?v=N7O-IDGXRgE&search=tokyo%20jihen


Tokyo Jihen: "Kurumaya-san." This is actually a new arrangement of an older Japanese pop song.

youtube.com/watch?v=F6b1xeCID2k&search=tokyo%20jihen


Otherwise, all the videos from the Dynamite Out! live concert DVD that are on youtube (and there are lots of them) have been good to great.

[lolita]

complicated music is the thing for me
this includes Rock( pink floyd, aeromsith, three doors down, creed)
i would still love to listen to mettalica, nirvana, guns and roses, bon jovi, rob zmobie, and alooooot more.

BUT I AM SO SO SO SO MUCH INTO HOUSE AND TRANCE
SPECIALLY TRIBAL AND PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.. THEY JUST GET ME MOVING; ITS SOMETHING BOUT EM ELEVATES ME UP UP UP .

oldies are good too, and i love the beatles! and i think being raised up in NY, rap and hip-hop play a major role in my taste !

[HothouseSalsero]

..... Shiina Ringo reminded me how to rock out....Yeah, that's true. I also hear a little throwback to The Doors. Late 60, early70s? Cool stuff. :)

That track doesn't really remind me of the Doors though (but I don't especially like them, so I might not want to notice if there were similarities). I actually think the style of the guitar soloing at the end seems pretty 90s, or at least isn't particularly a throwback to the 60s. (She does steal ideas from the more avant-garde noise-rock scene in Japan, apprently.) One of the things I like about it, however, is the way the melody twists and turns.

[HothouseSalsero]

BUT I AM SO SO SO SO MUCH INTO HOUSE AND TRANCE
SPECIALLY TRIBAL AND PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.. THEY JUST GET ME MOVING; ITS SOMETHING BOUT EM ELEVATES ME UP UP UP

Most house loses me pretty quickly. I do hear something I like from time to time, but usually it has other rhythms mixed in. (Also, when I am in the local record store the Sound of Market East, the house music in there usually sounds pretty good for some reason. I think maybe the type of house that is more soul-related.)

[HothouseSalsero]

Una mas! Una mas! Harmless sacharine chorus alternating with power chords, ending in a blur of (pretty modern sounding) feedback. (I just discovered this one):

youtube.com/watch?v=kOqGPdaJlwg&search=shiina%20ringo

(Notice she bows before walking offstage.)

[peachexploration]

.....BUT I AM SO SO SO SO MUCH INTO HOUSE AND TRANCE SPECIALLY TRIBAL AND PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.. THEY JUST GET ME MOVING; ITS SOMETHING BOUT EM ELEVATES ME UP UP UP............ I do hear something I like from time to time, but usually it has other rhythms mixed in. ...... I think maybe the type of house that is more soul-related.)

Yes, I am the same way when it comes to House or Trance type music. Have you heard of Marques Wyatt? I think I may have mentioned him somewhere on the forum but his stuff I really like. There is a free download
:arrow: amazon.com/gp/product/B0000573PO/104-2461057-2983126?n=468932&v=glance

It's called "Elements of Life (Latin Jazz Dub/Little Louie Vega) featured on his Sound Design, Vol. 1 CD. Got that Latin vibe thing happening especially with the percussion. :)

[HothouseSalsero]

That track is okay, but I guess house will never be my cup of tea. I think I need to be caught offguard by a house track before I can like it. Like, I need to walk into a store where some is playing and realize at some point while I am shopping that I actually kinda like it. As opposed to sitting down and listening to it.

I like Basement Jaxx's "Romeo" (which listening now, I realize, really doesn't have too much of that repeated snare sound, which might explain why I like it). I like some of those old crossover house songs from the late eighties early 90s (Technotronic, Dee-Lite, Black Box). I'm not sure why those are exceptions.

[peachexploration]

I don't care for Blackbox but I do like Dee Lite. As for Dee Lite, maybe it's that new age twist on that Bootsy Collins 70s Funkadelic thing going on. :)

[HothouseSalsero]

I like some things by that Ricardo Villalobos chap too.

[stringendo]

I keep reading Ella Fitzgerald's name in this thread. I LUV her; I have several CD's of hers, including "Ella Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas"!
But I like all kinds of music, from rock (Live, Pearl Jam) to classical (just got a box set of string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovitch) to Christian/Gospel (Kirk Franklin, Rich Mullins).
I don't care for country, but I do have a classic Patsy Cline CD. While living on the border I picked up a taste for some Latino music--Juanes, Celia Cruz, etc.
I have SO many CDs; my friend keeps telling me to get an Ipod, but converting all those CDs to Ipod would be WAY too much work!

[Tony_salvi]

Besides Salsa i usually listen to bachata, reggaeton, Nirvana, some oldies, Older Rap(think 90s), Rage Against the Machine...and Alternative rock in general.

I've mostly stopped listening to the radio because a lot of new music doesn't interest me as much. I usually have my cds or music that I listen to on my computer

[DeeplyDippy]

I don't care for country...

What could possibly be wrong songs like "You're the reason our kids are so ugly" and "Cactus down my y-fronts made a looser outta me" :lol:

[Discochick]

As the name suggests, I like to Disco!!! And I really like House Music (funky, vocal stuff!) Went to Ibiza this summer, danced my bootees off til dawn and not a mambo in sight (well, maybe one or two, much to the amusement of my friend!!!)

[HothouseSalsero]

Here are the last thirty or so songs that I noted I liked on one of my pandora.com stations (the most eclectic one). Some of them were new to me, some of them I already knew:

Stylistics - You'll Never Get to Heaven
Bill Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones [Isn't it Billy Paul?]
X - The World's a Mess It's In My Kiss
Chungking - Angel Eyes
Beny More - Francisco Guayabal
Celia Cruz - Yerba Moderna
Krisspy - Mas Que Un Amigo
Oro Solido - Tu Paleta
Juez Breakbeat Klezmer Jazz - Sitra Acra
The Cracow Klezmer Band - Awaiting
John Zorn - Samarkan
Gato Barbieri - Viva Emiliano Zapata
Brian Eno - The Fat Lady of Limbourg
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Heaven Bound
Tony Mola - Te Amare
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan - La Bamba
Gemstar-N-Bigmato - Disparale
Ismael Rivera - De Colores
Shonen Knife - Flying Jelly Attack
Ismael Rivera - Jala Jala
Roberto Roena - Me Le Fugue a la Candela
Maria Bethania - Explode Coracao
Maria Rita - Lavadeira do Rio
Elvis Crespo - Por El Caminito
Krisspy - Volvere
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Ismael Rivera - Gullliver
Luna - Weird and Woozy
Matthew Shipp - X-Ray
Kate Bush - The Big Sky
Ismael Rivera - Cantar Marvilloso
Myles Boison - Highway Duo
Fred Frith - Open Ocean

Despite the eclecticism of my taste, Afro-Latin music holds a place of honor with me. Arabic music also holds a place of honor, though I relate to it differently (not through dancing, but still with a strong emotional connection).

[HothouseSalsero]

Here's a little taste of one of my other musical loves, Oum Kalthoum, widely considered the greatest Arabic singer of the 20th century (and certainly the most popular):

youtube.com/watch?v=GtWvmD9A2RA

[lolita]

Here's a little taste of one of my other musical loves, Oum Kalthoum, widely considered the greatest Arabic singer of the 20th century (and certainly the most popular):

youtube.com/watch?v=GtWvmD9A2RA

true..she was /is/will be the best ever!

[HothouseSalsero]

Here's a little taste of one of my other musical loves, Oum Kalthoum, widely considered the greatest Arabic singer of the 20th century (and certainly the most popular):

youtube.com/watch?v=GtWvmD9A2RA

true..she was /is/will be the best ever!

Cool. I'm glad there's someone here to back me up on this.

[peachexploration]

I'm watching "The Wedding Singer" right now. So many good 80s songs. Hall & Oats, Culture Club, etc.

[HothouseSalsero]

A couple outstanding non-Latin purchases I've made lately:

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/37/946937.jpg

This is an extremely well-recorded album of fairly traditional oud improvisations along with some instrumental versions of mostly Iraqi folkloric songs, performed by a real virtuoso.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/67/868867.jpg

This is a modern (very downtown NYC) partly jazz-based rendering of some passages from the Biblical "Songs of Songs," all sung in Hebrew, and with some Middle Eastern borrowings. (The singer comes from a mixed Israeli and Swiss background.)

[ville]

genre:

-Spanish pop/rock
-Reggaetón
-Bachata
-Merengue
-Brazil dance

Artists/bands:

-Alejandro Sanz
-Andy y Lucas
-David Bisbal :)
-Juanes
-Manu Chao

-Justin Timberlake
-Pharrell
-Some rap groups

[peachexploration]

Lyrics from McArthur's Park by Richard Harris:

[Chorus]
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

What in the world does this mean :?:

Anyways, I like Donna Summer's version.
:D

[salsachinita]

I was into some of the trashiest Euro Disco (think "Boys" by Sabrina :oops: ) before my salsa days. I went into great length to collect hard-to-get vinyls from Europe (still got them.....maybe I should e-bay them off).

Apart from salsa, and Afro/Latin/Middle East related rhythms, I love Swing music (that big band brassy stuff). Some Jazz are cool.

I also love some R&B/Hip Hop/Rap/Ragaetton, and will happily dance along these at clubs.

In the last few years my SO & I are loving the fusion sounds of Cat Empire (a great local band, who is now very well known nationally) & Los Amigoes Invisible (a Venezuelan band we saw at Bacardi Festival Sydney). Ther are a few others which I can't recall names right now...

[HothouseSalsero]

About Oum Kalthoum (w/ translations of some lyrics and performance footage):

youtube.com/watch?v=gMJ0nvAkfmA&mode=related&search=

[HothouseSalsero]

Okay, I know I haven't been posting here much, and that's mostly because I haven't been dancing much (allergies/sinuses--I think I'm going to have to move to a different location, etc.), but here are my favorite albums from the past year. (Actually I have a couple more on the way that I think would have ended up on this list, but for now. . .) Approximately rank ordered, although I get more ambivalent about the order as the list goes down:

Tokyo Jihen: Adult. I had no idea I wanted to hear something that sounded like this, but maybe that’s because I couldn’t imagine it. Lots of smooth jazzy funky rock here, and that doesn’t sound like my type of thing, at least not on paper. But this is something special. [This is a horribly inadequate description, but I just gave up after trying again and again to describe what I liked about the album, without cataloging the different other artists this band reminds me of.]

Michael Suart: Back to da Barrio. I may be going overboard, but this is my favorite salsa album to have come out since I started listening to the genre in late 1997. It’s poppy in some ways, but the singing is often more hard-edged than what’s become the norm in the poppy end of the salsa spectrum. One of my favorite things about it is the way different songs imply different ways of moving. That’s thanks partly to a conscious effort to include a variety of rhythms in pure or sometimes mixed form: plena, bomba, jala jala, and guaguanco all make an appearance.

Rahim Al Haj: When the Soul Is Settled - Music of Iraq. While this album consists either of solo oud or oud accompanied by a percussionist, it’s an extremely rich recording that I don’t feel I have begun to really unpack as a listener.

Sunny Jain Collective: Avaaz. An adventurous blend of jazz with a variety of Indian forms, from a new bhangra-jazz composition to a cover of a familiar Bollywood classic. The vocals, as far as I can tell, straddle a line between Indian classical music and jazz. There are also some more straight ahead jazz tracks, though with unusual timbral touches. Even at it’s more intense moments, the album maintains a contemplative tone, one of the things which keeps it feeling unified, despite its variety.

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Mayim Rabim. The lyrics, in Hebrew, are all taken from the poetic dialogues of the Biblical “Song of Songs.” This might be the source of the highly theatrical feel of these compositions. Stylistically, the music is a mix of jazz and modern classical, as well as Jewish traditions. The work is strong melodically, though melodies can come and go quickly. Songs sometimes arrive at pleasantly unexpected places harmonically. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s singing is strong and highly flexible.

Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds. Another album which, however different, makes me think of a some sort of very unconventional music theater piece. I guess this gets filed under “indie rock,” not a genre that generally holds much interest for me. Whatever it is, it draws on classical music and there are violins and a harpsichord (I think) but no guitars. There are also some very odd choral sections, which generally provide some sort of counterpoint to what’s being sung by Owen Pallet (the main vocalist, and primary artist behind the whole recording). I have listened to this a lot less than many albums on this list, but that’s primarily because the lyrical content makes this a potentially depressing album. It’s a very good one, nonetheless.

Rachid Taha: Diwan 2. Rachid Taha returns to the music of his parents’ generation. Even listeners who aren’t fans of North African or Arabic music might find this a pleasantly varied set, thanks to diverse rhythms and instrumentation. Some of these songs can transport you to another world, not just because they are foreign and perhaps exotic, but because even in their original setting, they were often meant to transport listeners to another world. Meanwhile, if you read the translated lyrics, you’ll find that a couple of them offer social commentary on issues of race or otherness.

Uri Caine: Book of Angels, Vol. 6: Moloch. This came out late in the year, which hasn’t given me much time to spend with it. My favorite passages of this occur in the first half of the album when it sometimes reminds me of a jazzier, updated version of Satie’s “Gnossienne,” maybe primarily because of the “eastern” harmonies that both works share. Uri Caine moves fluidly between a traditional jazz feel and a very classical, sometimes modern classical, sort of sound. There are painfully beautiful moments throughout. This is the sixth volume of recordings of works in a very promising new series of works that are part of John Zorn’s larger Masada songbook. If Zorn’s Masada works have found him a larger audience (and I’ve never been a huge Zorn fan myself), this new Book of Angels series may widen his audience even further. I’ve also heard the Koby Israelite installment in the series, and it’s worth checking out, though not as satisfying as this Uri Caine recording. I will likely backtrack and check out some of the other volumes.

Marit Larsen: Under the Surface. Pop music, but on that 70’s model I tend to prefer. This might be entirely too sweet for a lot of people, and the extreme youthfulness of Marit Larsen’s voice might turn some listeners off, but I am pretty sold on this, particularly on the obvious singles here. She’s no vocal virtuoso, but she has a great pop delivery with a distinctive personality. There’s a certain twisty-turny quality to her lines that I particularly like.

Guayacan Orquesta: Xtremo. Most of these songs start off sounding almost rinky-dink (although I’m not sure anyone else is going to know what I mean by that), but then they move on into these wonderful grooves and warm vocal harmonies. It helps if you already like Colombian salsa (even if there are some Puerto Ricans involved with this project), but this is a pretty good example of it. It was a gold record in Colombia

Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere. Maybe it’s here mostly on the basis of “Crazy,” but I think the album overall is better than it’s often given credit for being. I have a weak spot for the very slight little track “Feng Shui,” which reminds me of the spirit of very early 90’s hip-hop.

Tego Calderon: El Subestimado. File under reggaeton, but it’s as much Latin hip-hop as reggaeton. In fact, it’s also a pretty ambitious mix of salsa, salsaton (salsa/reggaeton fusion), bomba, reggae, blues, and one track I think of as nu-soul, whatever Tego Calderon considered it. Still, I wish Tego were a little less laid back in general. Maybe he could cut back on the herb just a bit?

Andy Montanez: Salsa con Reggaeton. This is a really spotty album with two really good, pioneering, salsaton tracks (one with Daddy Yankee and one with Voltio), and one particularly good salsa song. Then there is another layer of songs that are just okay. Then there are some I’d rather not hear again.

Ghada Shbeir: Al Muwashahat. This is an excellent recording of very refined Arab-Andalusian classical music from Lebanon. I feel a little guilty about placing it so near the bottom of the list, but as well-done as it is, I find this material a little too samey after a while. At the same time, it’s quite possible I’ll be listening to this album after I’ve stopped listening to half the titles on this list.

El Gran Combo: Arroz con Habichuela. I’m still making up my mind about this late 2006 salsa release. I love a couple of the songs (the title track and “No Te Detengas a Pensar”). The album sticks to EGC’s familiar sound, and yet merely saying that doesn’t do it justice. Lead vocals are handled differently here than they have been on recent EGC releases, from what I can remember. Rather than having more than one lead vocalist per song, the responsibilities are divided up from song to song. The soneos (vocal improvisatory sections) are particularly strong on a number of these tracks. And yet the horn parts seem too defiantly traditional. It feels as though the band is going through some sort of change, but it hasn’t entirely gelled yet. But no complaints for a band that’s been around since 1962 and yet can still come out with a song as insidiously catchy as “Arroz con Habichuela.”

Rafaelito Cortijo & Ismaelito Rivera: La Nueva Generacion. Hardly anyone seems to like this as much as I do, which might have pushed me into placing it so low. Okay, so Ismaelito has some intonation problems and is a bit hoarse. I like still like his energy, and I like the band’s energy. Most of these songs pass the dance-floor test, which is good enough for me.

[lolita]

About Oum Kalthoum (w/ translations of some lyrics and performance footage):

youtube.com/watch?v=gMJ0nvAkfmA&mode=related&search=

I've got all of her Albums, if u need any song just tell me;)

[HothouseSalsero]

About Oum Kalthoum (w/ translations of some lyrics and performance footage):

youtube.com/watch?v=gMJ0nvAkfmA&mode=related&search=

I've got all of her Albums, if u need any song just tell me;)

Check your PM's. ;)

[HothouseSalsero]

youtube.com/watch?v=2M0dl-zBLN0

(Weird I just had the impulse to revive this thread almost a year after the last post, which was also by me. Although that last part isn't so odd, since I seem to be the one to post on this thread the most.)

[Flujo]

BUT I AM SO SO SO SO MUCH INTO HOUSE AND TRANCE
SPECIALLY TRIBAL AND PROGRESSIVE HOUSE.. THEY JUST GET ME MOVING; ITS SOMETHING BOUT EM ELEVATES ME UP UP UP .
Interesting! I hear you on that. Was searching to see if anyone said they liked house music but didn't expect (Edit: make that pleasantly surprised...) that person to be you. There used to be a club night called Peach (not sure if it's still running). You would have loved that! The sound system and the music were just so ... :shock: :D :applause: .

I was a bit of a House head too for a while but am more on the soulful jazzy side of things in spirit, like Deep House. I like anything with a nice groove mostly but am open to most types of music...especially cultural music.


Here's a little taste of one of my other musical loves, Oum Kalthoum, widely considered the greatest Arabic singer of the 20th century (and certainly the most popular):

youtube.com/watch?v=GtWvmD9A2RA
Very nice.

[peachexploration]

Bump..

[sirenita]

I LOVE GISSELLE. That music always makes me happy!

Besides that: I agree with a lot of others before me..
One thing I didn't see: country.
I am a country fan. Not just some country, but pretty much all country. Garth, George, Alan, Alison, Miranda, Montgomery, Gretchen, Reba, Martina, Trisha, Womack, Rimes, Dierks, Brad, Billy, Diamond....

Just imagine me in my cowgirl boots and hat, singing along to "God bless Texas", and tapping my feet to a two-step
http://irc-urls.net/thumbs/2005/11/14/cow_face.jpg

[tripleteeta]

how about The Beatles???

have to love them!

[SnowDancer]

how about The Beatles???

have to love them!

If we're talking 60's, I like: The Who, Buffalo Springfield, Zombies, Turtles, Lovin' Spoonful, even (I hate to admit) the Monkeys.

More recently, I like the Kooks.

[lolita]

how about The Beatles???

have to love them!

Do we have any other choice?

Lately been listening to alot of Tango music !

[sirenita]

"But at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl
Come-on, come-on, and dance all night
despite the heat it'll be alright "

8) I love this song, along with Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino), Johnny B Goode(Chuck Berry), In The Summertime (Mungo Jerry), .... I only know the songs from when I was younger, don't have full albums.

[SnowDancer]

"But at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl
Come-on, come-on, and dance all night
despite the heat it'll be alright "


"Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful?

[terence]

Interesting! I hear you on that. Was searching to see if anyone said they liked house music but didn't expect (Edit: make that pleasantly surprised...) that person to be you.
.


]Very nice.


Heres another surprise (?)-------- me

[Cuchifrito]

i've rediscovered my love for Cave In's "Antenna" record this week. soooo good.

[Flujo]

Interesting! I hear you on that. Was searching to see if anyone said they liked house music but didn't expect (Edit: make that pleasantly surprised...) that person to be you.
.


]Very nice.
Heres another surprise (?)-------- me
Eh? What do you mean Terrence? You like house music or you are surprised that Lolita does?

[SalsaShark]

currently enjoying a little Elliott Smith

[antigone]

"But at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl
Come-on, come-on, and dance all night
despite the heat it'll be alright "


"Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful?

better: "summertime city" by ABBA ! :)

[SnowDancer]

A song I really like at the moment is "I Prefer Rock'n'Roll" by Remi Nicole.

[DeeplyDippy]

Estelle - Shine

I liked the single American Boy and the album's fun

[bailar y tocar]

bump..(procrastination galore this afternoon)

-Various Artists, Authenticité the Syliphone Years 1965-80 (Guinea-Konakry)
-Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, Live in Belgrade & Promise (Serbia)
-Toumani Diabate Symmetric Orchestra, Boulevard de l'Independance (Mali)
-Hugh Masekela, Live at the Marketplace Theatre (South Africa)
-Lura, M'bem di Fora (Cap Verde/Portugal)

[lolita]

Nadia Ali hits spun by the glorious deepdish

[HothouseSalsero]

And her new album can be heard right now in full on her myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/janellemonae

Also, if you have not seen this video, I think it's pretty good:

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

although by no means does the whole album fit into this style.

[nowhiteshoes]

The Stone Roses, Michael Jackson.

[HothouseSalsero]

To some extent Janelle Monae is Michael Jackson meets the Stone Roses. (Well, very loosely. I hear more Stevie Wonder in her music, actually. But soul/funk/r&b and rock/psychedelia, definitely.)

[salsatron]

I am totally addicted to the music of Andrew Rosborough right now.

He has an awesome album called The Umbrella Parade that I urge anyone whop loves great music to hear.

His style is somewhat reminiscent of Jason Mraz only better, really what an incredible album.http://www.laststagewest.net/index_files/andrewrosborough.jpg

[DJ Yuca]

BB King - Live In Cook County Jail

An absolute classic . . .

[andreiro]

Rod Stewart - Young Turks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgczlrYM4eI

[bailar y tocar]

Will be off to a concert by Malian band "Tinariwen" in about an hour.

I have seen live shows of Malian bands Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra in the past. These African bands pull out all the stops.

[El Conguero]

I love Puerto Rico's music - plena, reggaetón, bomba, jibaro music, etc. PR also has its own varieties of salsa, merengue and guaracha. Also as a Christian I really enjoy artists whose music is about things that matter to Christians. Some of my favorite artists are Funky, Manny Montes and Triple Seven (reggaetón), Unción Tropical and Giovanni Rios (merengue), Booby Cruz and Ricardo Rodriguez (SALSA!) :D

[bailar y tocar]

Went to a concert by the jazz trio "The Bad Plus" my 3rd time in 3 years. They are always in town for the xmas holidays and play at my favorite jazz venue in town which is where they got their start 10 years ago. Amazing how they create a canopy of sound with so many layers with "just" a drumkit, piano and bass. At times it feels like the piano is off in a syncopated funk and the drums are dissonant and then you pick up on the bass and get the structure of it all and then it just changes again. Phenomenal.

http://online. wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703581204576033504267755170.html?m od=googlenews_wsj

[bailar y tocar]

Received a set of ~100+ Cumbia mp3s. I have always liked some cumbia and am finding that several of the tunes are quite nice:
La Sonora Dinamita: me gustas tu, las brujas, ay chave, yo soy la cumbia

Cumbia Latin Band (electronic instruments not my fav but a few songs work): el africano, tu la tienes que pagar (cumbiapop), cumbia de los monjes (cumbia & gregorian chant & hip-hop vocals)

But nothing beats the theme song of La Feria de Cali 2011 by ex Grupo Niche singer Javier Vazqez: Salud