Here are a few recommendations off the top of my head.
Fela Kuti - You may be familiar with Femi Kuti (his son). In my opinion
Fela is 10 times better. This Nigerian singer is the undisputed king of
afrobeat. Luckily they've been re-releasing a lot of his stuff over the
past few years. IF you can find his live album with Ginger Baker it's a
good place to start.
Ali Hassan Kuban - From Nubia to Cairo - This guy is the Egyptian James
Brown. Very funky, catchy tunes.
The Elektra Nonesuch Explorer Series is a good quality compilation series
with some focus on African music among others. I have the Kenya &
Tanzania: Witchcraft & Ritual Music CD which I love. It's a great way to
get a taste of a lot of different styles.
The Topic World Series on Tangent Records is another quality series. They
have a number of CDs under the topic of Music in the world of Islam and
they also have a good series on Africa.
The Smithsonian also puts out great compilations under the Folkways
Series. If you do some hunting around I'm sure you'll find something worth
listening to. By the way, did anyone see the documentary "Save Our Sounds"
about the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress and their archives of
recordings?
Not tribal or Middle Eastern but you may also be interested in checking out
some of the gamelan music from Bali and Java. Beautiful gongs and
percussions. I have a few recommendations here if you're interested.
- Chris
At 12:31 AM 5/20/03 -0700, d o n w i n b l a d wrote:
quoted 17 lines anyone have any suggestions for tribal and/or middle
>anyone have any suggestions for tribal and/or middle
>eastern music? don't really care if it's authentic,
>electronic, sample-based, etc... just nothing too
>obvious like ravi shankar but nothing too obscure
>where i can't obtain it.
>
>thanks in advance
>d o n
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