What Music Are You Listening To? #61: Now without a catchy title...

[Kyriakos]

^Music is good, but title ruins it

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[cardgame]

Santana - Smooth

 

[FriendlyFire]

 

[Tahuti]

 

[Borachio]

 

[Kyriakos]

Santana - Smooth

 

[Kyriakos]

You tried to mix with the animals, the world is filled with creeps and bad people, but, at some point, you met me

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[FriendlyFire]

 

[Kyriakos]

Found this gem thanks to @red_elk :

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Ayreon - Sail Away to Avalon

 

[Broken_Erika]

Waitin' for some trickle-down

 

[Borachio]

NSFW?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFzKhTFY3I

 

[Broken_Erika]

At the Hundredth Meridian
only took me 8 years to figure out the name of this song....

 

[EgonSpengler]

I've been listening to Zanaka by Jain a lot this week.

The whole album isn't quite as groovy as this track, which is definitely my favorite. She's a French girl who grew up in Africa and the Middle East. I'm not sure why she sings in English. Maybe the rhythms happen to work better. I read a theory somewhere that the French took to hip-hop more easily than to rock because the cadences of the French language mapped better onto the rhythms of hip-hop than to those of rock.

If that's true, I suppose one could speculate that the reverse is true for languages like Dutch and German, considering the ease with which people in those countries took to rock. I have heard Dutch hip-hop, though. I can't think of any German hip-hop off the top of my head, but I'm sure there must be some. And of course you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a European metal band.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Jain is very good

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Pagan's Mind - Dimensions of Fire