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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 15 / 181) Posts by members only

World Music
Mar 6, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
It’s no secret that I love the voice of Morten Harket whose vocals make the music of Norwegian rock/pop band a-ha so instantly recognisable, but of course Morten has a solo career in parallel to the band, as does his two bandmates, Magne & Pal. ...
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World Music
Mar 5, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I do rather like the Latin American beat of many songs which have the bossanova and other dance rhythms. Singing them there are many very good artists whom we never get to hear from South and Central America. Today I’m posting a singer called Ana...
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World Music
Mar 1, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’m off to visit my family in Leicestershire in the heart of England this weekend so I’ll leave you with this English Folksong which is based on the Rudyard Kipling poem “A Tree Song” set to music by Peter Bellamy. Oak and Ash and Thorn - ...
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World Music
Feb 29, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
There are many highly successful Latin American singers who we never really get to hear much about unless they manage to break into the mainstream Anglophone/US music market. One of them is Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, Mexican singer and record ...
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World Music
Feb 27, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Bix Beiderbecke is a legendary figure in jazz circles, an early pioneer of Amercan jazz. along with other jazz soloists Louis Armstrong & Muggsy Spanier he helped to popularise the idiom in the 1920s. He was born in Iowa in 1903 and taught himself ...
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World Music
Feb 26, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Another visit to Norway…but via Egypt through Morten Harket’s third solo English album (he also released 2 in his native Norwegian ) - Letter From Egypt - released in 2008 during a break in his schedule touring and recording with a-ha. This ...
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World Music
Feb 25, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
French composer Georges Bizet wrote the opera Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) in 1863 and the duet “au fond du temple saint” has ever since been a favourite with music lovers. There are many notable versions to choose from over the ...
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World Music
Feb 24, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Frederic Chopin’s Etude opus 25 1 is commonly known as Aeolian Harp and alternatively The Shepherd Boy. It was German composer and music critic Robert Schumann who coined the first title because the rapidly played notes reminded him of the wind ...
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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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