European Folk Music

  On 1/16/2019 at 8:01 PM, cwmbrancity said:

seriously though, does Luke Kelly count cos i can't hang with me Ma's John McCormack 78's or Vashti Bunyan lp's, "Black Velvet Band" is the real deal imho

 

this has changed my life

damn i need to catch up on this thread

Last track on Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, heard this beautiful music in a Grouper radio mix

these guys are from all over europe and play mostly Arabic + Persian music but here they are performing in Sarajevo 

Luke Kelly was a force of nature. Here's some more:

https://youtu.be/WosTgIBgzf4

  On 2/18/2019 at 9:52 AM, Salvatorin said:

this has changed my life

hopefully for the better, the shirts, the beards, THE RAPTURE

  On 3/4/2019 at 2:41 PM, caze said:

Luke Kelly was a force of nature. Here's some more:

 

https://youtu.be/WosTgIBgzf4

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Auld Triangle is savagely good, has featured during behemoth drinking sessions usually stood on a pub stool

& there's always Luke on nuclear war

John McSherry from Belfast is a conjuring master

folk fusion from Mr Moore, a voice that soars

fusiony

Martin & Eliza Carthy loads to choose, alternatively these are worth a dig

https://folkways.si.edu/dzintars/songs-of-amber/world/music/album/smithsonian

&

https://folkways.si.edu/the-golden-gate-gypsy-orchestra/the-travelling-jewish-wedding/judaica-world/music/album/smithsonian

A Finnish immigrant song recorded in New York in 1930.

The director of Finnish national public radio tried to destroy all of the copies in the radio archives in the late 1940s because she said she hated it, but the record was so popular that it got released on two different record labels in 1947.