I don't really feel like I'm done with the east central european post soviet states yet; I need to at least listen to these two more albums I downloaded from Ukraine, so I'll do that before I can comment on anything related to Balkan music.

I did, at least in my opinion, a pretty decent write up on Albanian music a year or two ago, wish I still had it.

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this is pretty cool

>>60848257
For some reason I only have the second volume. The group has a bunch of recordings. Should probably grab a few more.

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Almost done with this, and couldn't really recommend it to anyone. Maybe it's great if you know the language and can follow along with whatever's being told, but for an outsider like me it's just some really uninteresting and bland, homophonic choral stuff.

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Not Balkan, but I listened to this yesterday and it was awesome.

Shivkumar Sharma, Brij Bhushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia - Call of the Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zzVqrCEeU
>Hindustani Classical Music
They use a metallic sounding instrument I don't know the name of at 21:30. Does anyone here know how it's called and where I can hear some similar sounding stuff?

>>60849475
>They use a metallic sounding instrument I don't know the name of at 21:30
can't hear it in the youtube video?

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uploading some albanian music
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>>60849995
Ensemble Vocal De Gjirokaster - Albanie, Polyphonies Vocales Du Pays Lab (1995)
>Albanian Folk, Vocal Polyphonies
https://mega.nz/#!hd4XjCgB!dFps62T_UvAVE5nutoUu0BUkATo__jTg-9Gdbr6Be7w
https://youtu.be/tEWu9LV3DCs

I find this pretty interesting. the way they use vocals is very original.

>>60850362
wow this is actually quite beautiful, not what I expected from Albanian trad

>>60851874
>liking the most boring kind of albanian trad
welp I guess you'd like >>60848610 as well

>>60851921
I find it quite soothing, although I don't think it could hold my attention for longer than half an hour

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Bosnia - Echoes from an Endangered World, Music & Chant of Bosnian Muslims - Smithsonian Folkways
https://mega.nz/#F!wJFjiawR!AqJ5LPFGrVEjJGw_mX9oAA

>>60854232
Yo I was justlistnening to that now, too bad it's ore boring stuff like >>60848610

>>60854273
I'll judge for myself

here's some more for ya
music of the balkans 1 - albania, central balkans [1920-40]
https://mega.nz/#F!UUF3DKpI!Pfalk28Y9sgtmkf4O9gtjw

>>60854460
and part 2

Music Of The Balkans 2 [Bulgaria, Turkey 1930-45]
https://mega.nz/#F!MAMkwZSR!P4BzLhRntkC_-9_emglt9A

>>60854460
>>60854761
neat, something i havent heard

Somehow missed this thread and made a different one. If you're here, shout out to the guy that recommended Kytytsi by Svitlana Nianio yesterday. It's excellent. Really has that "ahead of its time" vibe.

>>60854924
>that "ahead of its time" vibe.
isn't this quite the opposite of what you'd wantf rom trad music?

My Serbian friend is big into Balkan folk but I don't particularly dig it.

This though was pretty cool
https://youtu.be/lgUI5b2Wmjw?list=FLHhgRJfccrJELV3r7FnRM6Q

>>60854938
...no?

all I want is good music

>>60854938
It could be. I was never surprised enough by what I heard to lose "immersion" in the traditional sounds. It's still very formal. I loved it, so I'd just recommend it and say to see for yourself.

>>60854957
The fuck why is there a tabla player

>>60855423
Exactly why I've been digging it. Took me by surprise.

Village music of Bulgaria - 1968 - Bulgarian Folk Music (Produced by Ethel Raim & Martin Koenig)
https://mega.nz/#F!1UlUhALK!JGcHiaVDc0SjHScEtZyojA