Music of Other Countries

[mac42]

If you have never checked out music of other countries, you should!

You can really find some unique stuff. I recently discovered that Romanian music is amazing.

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Edward Maya
Elena Gheorghe

Just to name a few.

Have any of you every found music from other countries that you like? (Bonus points if you like Swedish music!!)

[botwa]

well there's band Fast Furious Flames from the Switzerland.
The Shiver from Italy.
From the popular stuff I like Megaherz and Oomph! from Germany (not to mention Rammstein). There are lots of non-Us bands I like but currently I can't think up any more of them.

[Genghis Khan]

Middle Eastern/Central Asian Music

Turkish

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Two of the best Turkish folk artists I know (so far)

Arabic

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Mohammed El Bakkar - great folk musician

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Dhafer Youssef has a wide range of music but his style is mostly based on Arab Qawwali, Sufi and sometimes a blend of Jazz Fusion. Great dude.

Persian

Iranian Persian:

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Classic favourite Iranian song.

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This one's cool too.

Afghan Persian:

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Amir Jan Sabori is one of the most well known Afghan poets/musicians. I guarantee you every Afghan who knows they're Afghan knows him.

Tajik Persian:

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More difficult to come across but more or less similar to Afghan music in its style and articulation. Tajiks were the major poets of ancient Persian times before Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran even existed.

[Jess]

Chinese music. one I particularly like is The Two butterfly lovers. (classical music as usual)

[Darkness.]

How can you listen to other countries music if they speak another language. it would be very hard.

[Peace God]

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Puerto Rico up in this bish (yes I know it's not an other country, stfu).

[mac42]

How can you listen to other countries music if they speak another language. it would be very hard.

Well many countries, especially European, speak English in their music so more people can understand it. But at the same time, listening to other languages through music can be very enjoyable.

Here is one from my home, its swedish and you may not understand it, but its still catchy i would say!

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[rockNroll]

Like most people I like a lot of British and Canadian music because it's very similar to America's. I haven't really gone further than that, save for a few metal bands from Europe.

[kenoloor]

How can you listen to other countries music if they speak another language. it would be very hard.

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[embers]

The only Swedish band I know is an okay post-rock band called Jeniferever but I don't like the dude's voice very much.

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Apart from that, my favourite music from overseas:

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Literally one of the most beautiful songs in existence with a really beautiful ending too.

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You can turn the subtitles on on that one, because the lyrics are quite poetic and shit.

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Epic Swiss post-rock

[Perseus]

German post rock band. I love their shit. I fucking love sampling and they sample a lot, so I just dig it.
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[Syvelocin]

How can you listen to other countries music if they speak another language. it would be very hard.

Unlike us English countries, other countries often have two official languages, and a lot of them have English as their second language. At least in the genres I listen to, about 80% of the foreign bands I see sing in two languages or in just English. I recall an interview with Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen who writes their songs and he says that English is easier to write in than Finnish, for descriptive words and poetry.

My music library is equal parts American and English, with some Canadian, Irish, South African, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, Japanese, Russian, all in English. Though most of my French bands sing in French actually. But I can understand it, so that's typical.

Here's where I could be listing dozens of European symphonic metal bands. But I won't. I'll just give a couple of them with some other bands.

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Norwegian. Oh Liv Kristine. She was also the original lead singer of Theatre of Tragedy. Behind Tarja Turunen of course, easily one of my favourite female sopranos in the genre.

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Excuse the Death Note video. It was the only one with the studio version of the song. So this is Karkwa, a great find of mine. Okay, they're Québécois, but they sing in French.

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Finnish. Ordinarily, I'd go with one of their older songs to showcase Nightwish. But. Well. Imaginaerum is out. I have yet to hear it, but I've had it on pre-order for the last month so it should be here this week (hopefully). And yeah, I could never leave Nightwish out. Nightwish was the band that woke me from my mainstream taste in music so many years ago. As much as I love Nightwish by themselves, I mean, if I didn't find them my music taste could have been completely different. Though I'm not really into symphonic metal any more. They're still on my top ten though, and I refuse to number them though. I just know the ten bands that are on my top ten. :P
Anette Olzon is Swedish. Do I get an extra half point in addition to my Swedish mention?

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Dutch. The Dreamside was a strange find of mine. I think I found them through iTunes recommendations. This album grew on me. Not exactly what was my usual, symphonic power metal. But these guys I found more recently, so that makes sense. Hey. At least I'm not mentioning Within Temptation or Epica for the Dutch slot.

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Swedish. Jonna Lee. Probably one of my best discoveries of the last year. I found her on the Emilie Autumn forums, talking about the strange viral videos being posted. Best thing that came from viral videos hands-down. I like her previous stuff too, it's nice driving music. But this stuff is just so much more inventive. The mystery and the huge story the videos have. She's a mandrake. No one seems to get that part. It's all an allusion to mandrake folklore. How do you miss that...

[Peace God]

Brasil

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Jamaica

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[kalolin]

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[Aves]

Sigur Ros.

[Bath]

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