Not familiar with World Music

[kmten]

What is this thing that they call world music? It doesn't sound very familiar. But I've read that it, basically, includes ethnic songs or music that represent a culture. I think this genre should be popularized.

[djree]

I'm also interested in this one. It's something new to me. I hope artists would soon start to sing these types of songs.

[kokolate]

If you have samples of this type of songs please post them here..thank you.

[serenaspun]

Hey there! Glad I caught your inquiry regarding world music. I have been a fan for many years now (still a newbie) but can turn you on to this AWESOME band called BIOMUSIQUE. They are made up of Lisbeth Scott & Greg Ellis - Greg Ellis did soundtracks for Chronicles, Ironman and 300 Gladiators...it is so cool..a very unique feeling to it...very calming and passionate with a wicked beat!!

Amazon.com: biomusique: Music

Their record label has some other amazing artists. Go to
Kosmic Music - Kosmic Music Inc
Kosmica Music
and check out like NAID, or Sacred Blessings - 2 o f my other favorites. There are a bunch of world music labels but this Label - I love ALL Their stuff - it'll make your head spin LOL.

Originally Posted by kmten

What is this thing that they call world music? It doesn't sound very familiar. But I've read that it, basically, includes ethnic songs or music that represent a culture. I think this genre should be popularized.

[serenaspun]

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: world music

Musical genre incorporating diverse styles from Africa, eastern Europe, Asia, South and Central America, the Caribbean, and nonmainstream Western folk sources. The term was first coined largely in response to the sudden increase of recordings in non-English languages that were released in Great Britain and the United States in the 1980s, but by the early 1990s world music had become a bona fide musical genre and counterpoint to the increasingly synthetic sounds of Western pop music. Initially, African popular music and world music were virtually synonymous, and the genre's biggest stars included the Nigerians King Sunny Ade and Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the Senegalese Youssou N'Dour. Moreover, one of its earliest advocates was the Cameroonian-born Frenchman Francis Bebey. By the 21st century world music encompassed everything from Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the pop-flamenco of the French group the Gipsy Kings to "ambient-global" projects that merged so-called ethnic voice samples with state-of-the-art rhythm programming.
For more information on world music, visit Britannica.com.

[serenaspun]

NOTE: I don't have music I know how to post in a link, but go here http://www.kosmicmusic.com to hear tracks from this single and her other band, Biomusique....



After buying Biomusique I became a big Lisbeth Scott fan – her voice is chillingly beautiful.

I bought a couple more of her releases (Dove & Fair Skye) at kosmicmusic.com and since I’m registered on their site, I get free downloads (!). They have a new release of hers called “The Pie Cry Remix” that aired on the October 12, 2008 episode of the HBO series, "True Blood." It’s a remix of the Biomusique single (Biomusique is her band with Greg Ellis) “Take me Home” from their 10,000 steps CD. The Pie Cry remix of the track is ONLY AVAILABLE on download at

Kosmic Music - Take Me Home (Pie Cry remix) - Product Details

Once on the site, you can enter the contest to win a (real) pie (!), some free downloads and other stuff if you can answer the trivia question from the show - hmmmm…I watched that episode but not sure what flavor the pie was that Sookie ate - ANYONE? Help! (wish I’d Tivo’d it so I could answer it!) – go fast - the contest ends October 26.
I didn’t realize she is on over 100 soundtracks including Spielberg's "Munich," "The Passion of the Christ", Disney’s “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian" and so many more. If you like Liz Frazer, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, etc....you’ll love Lisbeth Scott.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT PIE SOOKIE ATE!