In this new series I share with you my love of World music!
Being an English speaker, I mainly listen to, and was brought up with, music sung in the English language. I have always been fascinated however by the rhythms, language and variety of musical sounds from all over the world.
There is something universal about music that transcends language, time and culture.
My native tongue is a language whose expressive nature fits well for lyric writing, thus being a favourite with songwriters, and has been a prominent language of popular music in the last century for songs across the globe.
In English speaking countries however it is less common to find songs in other languages entering the main music stream. There are always exceptions of course!
Classical music lovers will regularly listen to lyrics sung in a variety of different languages.
The Celtic music scene utilises the Celtic languages of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish and Breton along with the English. Traditional songs from many countries are sung in ancient languages such as Latin or Sanskrit.
All the songs I will include in any World Music Moment post are all songs I love. I do highly recommend you searching out the artists and the albums they have created.
Today here we have songs in French, Irish Gaelic and Turkish.
French
Raphael - Peut-être a-t-il rêvé?
Raphael is a singer, songwriter and musician from France. I have enjoyed the album 'Caravane' that this song is taken from since its release.
Irish Gaelic
Solas are an Irish-American band of mainly Folk-style music. The beautiful voice of singer Karan weaves throughout this tune.
Solas - A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn O
Turkish
maNga - Beni Benimle Birak
maNga are a Turkish Rock band who mix rock music and rap styles. The band were the Runners--up in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with their song 'We could be the same'.
