you must post music that is EITHER:
- by an artist who does not reside primarily in the US, the UK, or canada
- not sung in english
you can do anime openings and kpop if you really want but given the degree of promotion they receive in the west as-is, i encourage you to go elsewhere (i am aware that kpop groups significantly outperform japanese bands that do anime openings, but hopefully the spirit of this caveat is clear.) if you have a contribution to make, you can post in the "#worldwide music wednesday" tag yourself or rechost this with your own additions! whatever works.
i will start:
there's a form of old arabic poetry called a ghazal, which is a kind of love poem consisting of couplets wherein the first couplet establishes the rhyming end, and every couplet must rhyme with that end in the first half and repeat it in the second:
hamari saanson men aaj tak woh hina ki khushbhoo mehak rahi hai
labon pe naghme machal rahe hain, nazar se masti chhalak rahi haiwoh mere nazdeek aate aate hayaa se ek din simat gaye the
mere khayalon mein aaj tak woh badan ki daali lachak rahi hai
there's a rich library of ghazals that've formed the basis for a lot of song recordings in india and pakistan—some of the regularity of the form gets lost by repetition of certain lines, but the essential rhyme scheme is preserved, and they can be really beautiful. i will not claim to know very many ghazals, but i like this one by noor jehan a lot. if you'd like an english translation of the lyrics, here's a decent one.
someone in a server i used to frequent posted this during one of their radio nights. it's a bit of a banger
(no relation to the other band named Jumbo)
there's this too. spotify recommended it to me one day and i haven't looked back
i have a bunch of other japanese tracks i could share but i think it's best i leave those for other WMWs
this is a fun idea!
i’m going to share this 80s synthpop song from the late soviet russia because it’s just such a fun little song. it’s called давайте созвомонимся/let’s call each other and it’s by форум/forum. the lyrics are super cute as well, they’re all about how you should call that friend you haven’t called in a while. :)
Bulgarian traditional music sung by women's choirs sounds amazing. More specifically, it sounds like the soundtrack of Xena: Warrior Princess or Ghost in the Shell.
Yes, I know the inspiration goes in the other direction.
