This is for everyone to share music that portrays the spirit of the people from beautiful cultures and traditions from all over the world. Modernized adaptations or renditions by contemporary artists would be interesting to see also.
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“Liling” is the unofficial Orang Ulu anthem, traditionally sung by hundreds to thousands of voices in the dim longhouse nights in Borneo, in celebration of an occasion. With Gawai (Harvest Festival) events being cancelled this year (Covid-19), Sarawak’s international sape’ musician, Alena Murang birthed the idea of bringing “semangat” Gawai to Dayak households. “Semangat", an inner fire, from within an individual’s soul, multiplied when we come together as a community, is what we need right now to keep going” shares Kuching-born Alena. Featuring Dayak singers singing in their own mother tongue, and famous Sarawakian artists, this video is in nine languages, five of which are listed as “threatened” or “endangered”.
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If you folks know any royalty free sources for Indigenous music, let @El_Capitan_Nemo know!! That will be awesome for all of us as Captain may use it in his tracks!!
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Project KULEANA and Kamehameha Publishing present a collaboration of musical KULEANA.
Written by Ellen Keho’ohiwoakalani Wright Pendergast in 1893. This was a mele of opposition to the annexation of Hawai’i to the United States. Originally this mele was titled Mele ʻAi Pōhaku (The Stone Eating Song) and was also known as Mele Aloha ʻĀina.
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The Beatles aren’t quite “Indigenous”, but I always found the Indian instrumentals of this song to be quite enchanting. The lyrics are also amazing. I think this is one of the greatest songs ever made.
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The soulful music with a touch of ancient chinese and traditional instruments. It’s difficult to translate because each character has so many meanings to it. However, intuitively you will get the best meaning for yourself.
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Even more enchanting to see it live! (A recreation)
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I really enjoy the mix of pop/modern with traditional music and instruments! Thanks for bringing this into my radar. I’m not updated with music anymore. (I think my playlist has been stuck for a decade.
) A really old example, maybe even cheesy, with a similar concept:
This one is not to my taste but someone I live with is crazy about this artist, so I’ll drop this here as well.
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Fishermen’s song of the east china sea as always felt special
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Balinese Gamelan
Song: “Manuk Anguci” (A Singing Bird)
Band: Semarah Rati, from Ubud
Style: Gamelan Gong Kebyar. “Kebyar means ‘to flare up or burst open’, and refers to the explosive changes in tempo and dynamics characteristic of the style.”
The influence of gamelan be found in some of the music of the Japanese musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi, such as in the The Theme of Kaneda in the soundtrack of 1988 animated movie AKIRA.
In the '80s, synthesizers weren’t capable of replicating the tunings of gamelan music, which doesn’t follow the tempered tuning of Western scales and thus involves microtonal inflections that weren’t built into the synths of the time. Gamelan tunings don’t follow scales attached to specific notes, but instead divide into two tuning systems that operate as guidelines for the dispersal of intervals within an octave: the slendro system, which includes five notes of roughly equal intervals to the octave and may sound to Western ears like an out-of-tune pentatonic scale, and the pelog system, which includes seven notes to the octave, with variable intervals between. The group learned to reprogram the synths so they could account for this complexity, a development that by 1988 had been incorporated into the Roland D-50 and Yamaha DX7-II, both of which feature in the Akira soundtrack.
from “Inside the Daring Score of the 1988 Anime Masterpiece Akira”
Gamelan has also influenced the French composer Claude Debussy. 1: The Gamelan Influence. 2: Claude Debussy’s Gamelan
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I agree. Your post reminded me of an animated film, Kubo that had a rendition of While My Guitar Gently weeps, mixed with traditional japanese intruments.
Apologies lilo if wrong example… 
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You just reminded me of 4 others. Old. But with their own essences.
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Indian carnatic vocal …his vocal is one instrument.my personal favorite.
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This is my first time seeing this, thanks for sharing!
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This time it’s German mixed with old instruments.
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My pick-me-up song. Makes me want to dance.
Playing For Change (PFC) is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music, born from the shared belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. The primary focus of PFC is to record and film musicians performing in their natural environments and combine their talents and cultural power in innovative videos called Songs Around The World.
We invite you to watch and enjoy another Song Around The World from our PFC 3 album, “Guantanamera”. We started the song with Carlos Varela in Havana and it features over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo.
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I was a few minutes into the first one, then remembered there was The Mandarin and Cantonese Soul field. Played that first, came back here, and I think that really upped the reverence and appreciation for these tracks!
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