Delhotel Records from Mexico

Hi readers. Long time no action on the blog, but this new post is worth it. Roger from this Mexican distributor sent me an email and I am happy to link to them from my blog.
Delhotel Records is a creative Net-Label based on Creative Commons. Enjoy browsing their repertoire:
http://delhotel.com/

Yeah, that is exactly what I'm gonna do now. Spend some time browsing their website :-)
Cheers!

Los Porongas

Despite its name, Los Porongas is a Brazilian alternative rock band, coming from Acre, our westernmost state, land bought from Bolivia in the transition from the XIX to the XX century:

Orkiestra św. Mikołaja - Folk from Poland

The Saint Nicholas Orchestra is an amazing folk band from Poland. Their instrumental repertoire covers anything from traditional Central European instruments like violin over Hungarian koboz to Perso-Turkic dutar and saz. They reminded me of the Warsaw Village Band but yet different of course. In any case a really interesting band:) ENJOY!


Download some mp3s on their website!

Ptaky - Polish Rock

This band is the recommendation of our reader Michał from Poland! I say thank you and enjoy!
myspace.com/ptaky

SMS - Ukrainian Pop

hehe, just thought we really need some trashy stuff again. after all this high-brow, petit-bourgeois, pseudo rebellious alternative rock music :-D
this is SMS from Ukraine with the song Erotic Class(es)

Poléxia - Brazilian Rock

Poléxia is a Brazilian rock group from Curitiba. They have an interesting sound. It's been some time that I liked distorted guitar sounds like that. Have a listen at either
their myspace,
website
or check their videolog

Raimundos - Mulher de Fases

Raimundos is one of the best Brazilian hardcore bands, most active in the late 90's. They mix up rock and música nordestina (from Brazilian Northeast). This is their song Mulher de Fases.

Now, before you think that only Brazilians cover Argentinians and not the other way round, here is a cover of Mulher de Fases from the reggae band Los Pericos, called Complicado y Aturdido. The lyrics are widely changed.

Łzy - Polish rock

Nando Reis: Brazilian Pop-Rock

Nando Reis is one more of those guys who left the important band Titãs to continue on a solo career. Now he started calling his own band Os Infernais, so he presents himself as Nando Reis e Os Infernais. He is a better lyricist and composer than a singer, but since at Titãs everyone would sing, he learned enough to perform his own songs. You might like his songs better in the voice of Cássia Eller, though. Below is the video of Por onde andei (where have I walked through).

Ha megfogom az ördögöt - A Hungarian folk tune

This post will be just about one song.
Ha megfogom az ördögöt (If I catch the devil) is an old traditional Hungarian/Gypsy folk tune and I wanna show you three modern adaptions by three bands I really love.

1.)
Besh O Drom very fast powerful tunes. From Hungary


2.)Amorf Ördögök -- Another Hungarian folk/gypsy band


3.)RotFront -- A Berlin-based project (Hungarian/Russian/German)

Filippo Landini - Rock Català

Filippo Landini is an up and coming band from Barcelona featuring the Catalan language.

Viu-La


Un Salt Mortal


Links
Website
Blog
Myspace

Here comes more Brazilian music!

Hi readers from everywhere!

My name is Hidson Guimarães, I was born in 1984 and I live in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, in Brazil

Yabba/tobi was too lazy about posting Brazilian artists here, so I decided to take this blog over and start posting some of the richest music in the world.

I'll be trying to post some artists from other countries here and there, as I have a project of my own that covers extensively the foreign music. If you know Portuguese, you can check it out at http://www.invasoesbarbaras.com.br . My main focus will be on Brazilian music, though. Just as a teaser, check out the Brazilian National Anthem recorded on many Brazilian local rythms!

Rachid Taha - Rai-influenced Rock from Algeria/France

This is one of my favorite songs of the god of the fusion of rock and raï (رأي) Rachid Taha.

"Écoute moi camarade"

Sediq Shubab - Afghan Music from the Dispora

Sediq Shubab is an Afghan singer. He continues his music career in exile from Frankfurt, Germany. Sediq sings in Persian and Pashto and he is of Panjshiri background.Sediq Shubab has a very distinct style and is one of the better contemporary Pashto artists.

Gerda De Lamana

Quilapayun - Chilean Folk

Quilapayun formed in Chile during the mid 1960s. It was one of the most influential exponents of the Nueva Canción movement. Quilapayun in unique in the fact that its music is in part inspired by the traditional rhythms of the indigenous Andean people. After the United States government, in all its wisdom, saw fit to overthrow the democratically elected Salvador Allende and install Augusto Pinochet, one of the most brutal dictators of the modern age, Quilapayun began to protest their newly restricted civil liberties through song. Upon the assassination of several band members, Quilapayun fled to France, where its members continued making music in exile.


El pueblo unido jamás será vencido


Mi patria

Indochine - French Rock

Indochine is a French new wave/rock band formed in 1981. Despite the passage of time, the band has kept a distinct 80s sound giving it a wonderfully anachronistic quality. Indochine has enjoyed success not only in France, but also in the rest of continental Europe.

Their Website

Alice et June


Les Tzars

Soda Stereo - 80's Rock from Argentina

Soda Stereo is a classic Argentine rock trio. The band established what would become the template for many other popular Spanish-speaking pop and rock music groups: clever, often mysterious lyrics, pleasing musical arrangements and an elaborate and glamorous aesthetic image. Soda Stereo has become one of the most critically acclaimed Argentine rock bands.

Música Ligera



The Brazilian band Capital Inicial covered this song, albeit with altered lyrics, under the title A Sua Maneira. Although I strongly prefer the original, the cover was well received in Brazil.

Telek - Papua New Guinean singer

George Mamua Telek is one of the few Papuan New Guinean singers who have gained international fame. He says his songs are about their daily life, songs that people sing when they pick the bananas, collect the coconuts or go fishing. He sings in his native language, Kuanua, and in the English-based creole Tok Pisin.

Telek's website
George Telek - West Papua

Páll Finnur Páll - Faroese Pop-Rock

Páll Finnur Páll is a pop-rock band from Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The band started playing as a trio 7 years ago by three students named Páll, Finnur and Páll - hence the name - but three more members have joined since then. They released their first album Bermenn in 2003 and their second album Førist in 2006.

Páll Finnur Páll on MySpace

Páll Finnur Páll - Forelskaður Sjónleikari:

LOVEGUN - Hungarian Rock

Not to be confused with the Kiss album, whence the name was derived, LOVEGUN is one of my all time favourite bands. I actually first came in contact with them through this blog and I decided that they deserved their own post. Their website is http://www.lovegun.hu/. LOVEGUN features intense female lead vocals and guitar riffs.

LOVEGUN - Megint 1 még 1 nyár


LOVEGUN - Romeo


LOVEGUN - Esö mossa el