a search for celebration music
i’d like to discover some new music…. lots of new music, actually. but i’m looking for a particular kind of music…. celebration music.
so, from all the faithful meta-roj blog readers, i want your opinions. i want your filters. what i want to discover is music of celebration from around the world, and to avoid american pop music. send me your thoughts on the music that makes you think “man, that’s a happy song” when you hear it… the music traditionally played at weddings from some far-flung culture that i don’t know well… the chanting… the drumming… the rhythm that moves people to joy…. the music that makes people feel good, get happy and maybe even dance. the theme is celebration, the world is my oyster, so please fill my ears…. point me to your favorites.
(bonus points if it’s cc-licensed or if i can actually get in touch with the creator)
i’m a chevy chase fanboy, i admit it. imdb says his first movie was “the groove tube” – which i tracked down and rented only to find that it wasn’t very good. BUT – there was one segment
where a full-grown man in a suit & carrying a briefcase literally danced for joy down an urban sidewalk to the tune of Curtis Mayfield’s “Move on Up” – now THAT’S a joyful celebration of life. a reaffirmation of all the splendor of the seventies.
you’ve got your percussive drum solo, your horns, your funky guitar & bass… it’s worth a listen.
Comment by crw — May 4, 2004 @ 2:20 am
excellent start… thanks
bring on the funk, i’m completely down with it.
to further seed the well, some other things that have come in through backchannels….
talakik / hakim
kate / ben folds five
are you gonna go my way / lenny kravitz
sexual telepathy / disappear fear
kiss the world / disappear fear
the sunshine underground / chemical brothers
jump jive and wail
smooth / santana
it can happen / yes
mr. blue sky / electric light orchestra
right now / van halen
thing of beauty / hot house flowers
and i’m going to go ahead and add these now:
maple leaf rag
kamande / cirque du soleil – dralion
what a wonderful world / louis armstrong
somewhereover the rainbow/what a wonderful world / israel kamakawiwo’ole
onion skin / boom crash opera
got my own thing now / squirrel nut zippers
istanbul (not constantinople) / they might be giants
azwaw 2 / cheb mami
Comment by roj — May 4, 2004 @ 2:30 am
this must be the place (naive melody) / talking heads
light and day / polyphonic spree
Comment by yonderboy — May 4, 2004 @ 4:22 am
ANYTHING BY RUFUS WAINWRIGHT! He is my ‘stress relief musical guru’. “April Fools”, “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk”, “Oh, What a World” and “Beautiful Child” by Rufus Wainwright, “Eskimo” by Damien Rice, “Laurel & Hardy” by Martha Wainwright,
Comment by Nikola Edgar — May 6, 2004 @ 11:52 am
more backchannel suggestions…
spanish sevillanas
corvus corax
wolfenmonde
wolgemut
la notte
keali’i reichel / toad song
Comment by roj — May 8, 2004 @ 7:18 am