Archive for the 'instrumental' Category

More zydeco-cajun-creole songs

This great music needs more attention! Amédé Ardoin — Two step

Dewey Balfa & Todd Balfa — Jai Ete Au Bal

Dewey Balfa — Parlez nois a boires

22 December 2008 at 21:04 - Comments

The Zydeco/ Cajun/ Creole music

Bois Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot — Bonsoir Moreau

Nathan Abshire — Jolie Blond

Clifton Chenier — Don’t Lie to Me

Zydeco, a transliteration in English of ‘zaricô’ (Snapbeans) from the song, “Les haricots sont pas salés”, born in Cajun and Black Creole communities on the prairies of southwest Louisiana in the 1920s, is considered by many, [...]

9 December 2008 at 04:00 - Comments
margottolina
LOVE your blog. Thx
10 December 08 at 12:39

The jenka dance music

Gudrun Jankis — Let Kiss (1965):

Accordind to wikipedia: “Letkajenkka, anglicized to letkis, is a Finnish dance that was invented in the early 1960’s on the basis of the folk dance schottische (in Finnish jenkka).The dance became a short-lived international craze with the release of the tune by Roberto Delgado in 1965.” A performance of this dance [...]

28 November 2008 at 01:54 - Comments

Swingotronik – electro manouche

The band members are: Julien Jacquin (sampler), Julien Rodriguez (sax), Déborah Lartilleux (bass), Christophe Lartilleux (guitar & composer). According to their page: “Swingotronik plays and presents a new concept “ELECTRO SWING”! It’s a mixture of guitar manouche of Django Reinhardt and electro music, the SHOCK of the generations!”

29 October 2008 at 03:08 - Comments

The Flashbulb

Passage D

Benn Lee Jordan have many pseudonyms. Since 1999 his most widely distributed and eclectic music has been released under the name of The Flashbulb. Other names Benn operates under are Acidwolf, CHR15TPUNCH3R, DJ ASCII, Dr. Lefty, Dysrhythmia, Flexe, Human Action Network, Lucid32, rnd16, Sixty Six Ex, and Q-Bit. As The Flashbulb, Jordan typically releases drill [...]

2 October 2008 at 22:17 - Comments

AUTECHRE

  Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown (born c. 1971) and Sean Booth (born c. 1973), both natives of Rochdale. The group is one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music artists. Some journalists consider Autechre to be a paragon of [...]

25 September 2008 at 13:50 - Comments

Bareh Droma

Play Kako Sanka (Uncle Sanka): Kako Sanka (Uncle Sanka) The litle hut

28 August 2008 at 09:57 - Comments

The Fatima Spar Und Die Freedom Fries – Egyptian Ella

Listen here the version of Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries, an Austrian folk brass band with a Turkish singer, which integrates jazz and many musical styles mainly from southeastern Europe.

This song, composed by Walter Doyle, it was singed by many bands in the past. The first one was Ted Weems and his Orchestra. Doyle [...]

27 August 2008 at 11:50 - Comments

Gloomy Sunday -my side of the story

Mariuk and I discovered together the story of this song a few years ago on Discovery channel. We were hooked. After the show ended (it was about preconceptions and stupid traditions), we started digging on the Internet for all the cover versions. Among the approximate 90 existing, we settled for just a few. I will let [...]

27 August 2008 at 09:48 - Comments
mr.knives
gloomy is so corny! i am a x-christ too!but it's so corny! elviv liyo manodoran ell dimmu borgir!
29 September 08 at 06:55

Gloomy Sunday

Yes yes yes!!! My friends didn’t t post it yet!!! Ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely proud and honoured to present you one of our icons that make us smile when we hear it…not so many people know why…but for us this song is special… Gloomy Sunday (from Hungarian Szomorú vasárnap) was written by a Hungarian composer [...]

27 August 2008 at 08:54 - Comments