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A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

By Marionville (Page 14 / 179) Posts by members only

World Music
Feb 23, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Charles Aznavour the Armenian French singer, actor and diplomat. who died in 2018 aged 94 was a national icon in France. This song which was written by him with French lyricist Jacques Plante was Aznavour’s signature song and also one of the most ...
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World Music
Feb 21, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
In complete contrast to yesterday’s post of a-ha performing their official 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games song Shapes That Go Together, today I’m featuring frontman and lead vocalist Morten Harket paying trubute to Sam Cooke, “the king...
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World Music
Feb 20, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
In 1994 The Winter Olympic Games were held in Lillehammer in Norway and a-ha were selected to write and perform the official song of the Games. Here they’re filmed in the TV studio making a publicity video ahead of the Games and performing their...
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World Music
Feb 19, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
She was a South African national icon…singer and civil rights activist in the 1960s, who popularised African music all around the world…in fact she was known as Mama Africa. I of course mean Miriam Makeba, and here she is performing Mayibayu in...
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World Music
Feb 18, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
In a true melding of genres…The Piano Guys have combined music from Disney’s movie Frozen with Winter by classical composer Antonio Vivaldi….they say they have segued them together to represent freezing and melting of ice in the flow of the ...
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World Music
Feb 17, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
William “Billy” Cobham is a Panamanian/American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 60’s and 70s with trumpeter Miles Davis, and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1987 and then...
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World Music
Feb 16, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
When East meets West…Uncommon: A Rare Fusion of Indian, World and Jazz Music from The Royal Opera House Mumbai, featuring percussionist Ranjit Barot, vocalist & bassist Etienne Mbappe and keyboardist Christophe Cavero. Described as an evening ...
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World Music
Feb 15, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Many talented and successful singers and musicians have come from Australia and John Farnham is one of the best known of them. Here with a little help from his friends Stuart Fraser, Lisa Edwards and Lindsay Field he performs Burn For You, live in ...
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World Music
Feb 14, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Another track from Norwegian/American band Savoy’s recently released new album Under - Life and Times of a Wannabe…
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World Music
Feb 13, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
There is something very soothing about the sound of the harp and there is no one better at playing the Irish harp than harper Michael Rooney. Here he plays a selection of traditional Irish airs & reels at Barry’s Pub in Grange, Co. Sligo as part...
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World Music
Feb 12, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
An unlikely pairing for the time, but classical tenor Placido Domingo and John Denver proved to be a winning combination in 1981 when they made an album together. Here they are in the recording studio laying down the Denver written track Perhaps ...
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World Music
Feb 11, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Magne Furuholmen, talented multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, visual artist, painter, sculptor, poet - who is best known as keyboardist and one third of Norwegian pop/rock band a-ha. I just love the guy, in a-ha he’s the funny one, the...
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World Music
Feb 10, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Niaz Nawab is an Iranian multi-instrumental musician, singer and songwriter now exiled and living in Paris, her music fuses Persian poetry with western sounds. Here she performs her composition titled The Sea accompanied by Paris Philharmonic ...
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World Music
Feb 9, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Thanks to @Spinliesel we know it’s Carole King’s birthday today..she’s 82. I think we don’t recognise enough just how great a songwriter she was…this Everly Bros hit from 1961 Crying In The Rain for instance which she co-wrote with Howard...
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World Music
Feb 9, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
We often hear the great music of Scandinavian classical composers Grieg & Sibelius performed, less often do we hear the music of another great Scandinavian composer Carl Nielsen. Nielsen is Denmark’s most famous musical son, a composer, ...
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World Music
Feb 8, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Music is truly international, crossing all borders as we already know, and just to emphasise the point here is British born Nigerian/Brazilian songwriter & record producer Tiao Cruz who is currently based in Los Angeles teaming up with Australian ...
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World Music
Feb 7, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
I thought I’d share with you this new exciting English all girl Indie Rock Band who have recently been crowned the BBC Sound of 2024 and have guested in the last few weeks on high profile late night shows on both sides of the Atlantic with their ...
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World Music
Feb 6, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Picture This is an Irish rock band formed in Athy, Co Kildare in 2015. Their debut album released in 2017 immediately went to the top of the charts in their home country, and since then they’ve released two more albums and have had some success ...
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World Music
Feb 5, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Another homage to a-ha from Norwegian classical cellist Havard Bilsbak…this time he’s cleverly made an accompanying video In the style of the original a-ha video released with their 1985 hit song Train Of Thought. I’m also posting the ...
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World Music
Feb 4, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
We don’t often post anything from Turkey in the group, or ever for that matter, so today is a first I think. I’m featuring Tarkan Tevetoglu who is a popular singer/songwiter with a successful career since the early 90s. He was born in Germany...
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World Music
Feb 3, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Gary Moore was a local legend here in Northern Ireland, the boy from Belfast who lived in the next street to another musical legend Van Morrison…yes they both grew up in the same East Belfast neighbourhood at the same time, only a few years apart ...
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World Music
Feb 2, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
We all know and love ABBA and their music, the most successful Swedish music act ever…and there is no denying Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote some very memorable tunes. Here is an instrumental interpretation of one of their hits… I Have A ...
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World Music
Feb 1, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
CC Cowboys are one of the best rock bands to come out of Norway …formed in Fredrikstad in 1979…and in Scandinavian solidarity naming themselves after a song by Swedish rock group Imperiet. Here they are with one of their songs released as a ...
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World Music
Jan 31, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
The Kalmyks are an ethnic Russian group who until recently lived and worked as nomads wandering with their herds on the vast Nogai steppes near the mouth of the Volga river. Their dance and music represents nature and the environment in which they ...
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World Music
Jan 30, 2024Jan 2024

Posted by Marionville
In 1967 French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song for his then girlfriend Brigitte Bardot and they recorded it together. It was called Je T’aime…moi non plus, and the recording included a lot of heavy breathing and simulated (or ...
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Posted by ReignmondIt is tough to find sharable music from The Oppossums Of Truth. There are 3 full albums of Scientific Gospel music here. [boomplay.com]

Posted by ReignmondIcelandic Folk Music - Tyrkjaránid - YouTube

Posted by ReignmondOk...how about this hauntingly beautiful opera aria? [youtu.be]

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Posted by ReignmondThe song title translates to I Won't Give Up by Hungarian Alternative/Indie band Intim Torna Illegál (Intimate Gymnastics Is Illegal). [youtu.be]

Posted by ReignmondGet ready for some beautiful music. I have a couple albums by Heartstrings. Sometimes I play them in the office and it is quite popular. [youtu.be]

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