Traditional music and dance from Cote d’Ivoire 1
September 132009
Traditional group of young musicians and dancers from Ivory Coast, performered in a turistic village of the Club Mediterranèe in inie-Abidjan.
Recorded on 1992/03
Duration : 0:9:57
Lavni: The Great Indian Folk Dance
September 102009
Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particulary performed to the enchanting beats of ‘Dholak’, an drum like instrument. This dance is performed by attractive women wearing nine-yard saris. The women gyrate on the pulsating beats of traditional music.
The word Lavani originates from “Lavanya”, meaning beauty. Earlier, this art form dealt with different and varied subject matters such as society, religion, politics, romance, etc.
Lavani was used as a form of entertainment and morale booster to the tired soldiers during the 18th and 19th century Maratha battle.
Duration : 0:1:0
Music Makars Medley 08
September 42009
This video is of the Cincinnati Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Demo Team at the Cincinnati Fine Arts Sampler of 2008. The venue was the Gallery Level of Newport on the Levee in Newport, KY. February 9th, 2008
Included in this medley are the dances: Music Makars, Minister on the Loch and Wild Geese.
Duration : 0:4:41
Irish Music!
September 12009
Irish Celtic Riverdance taps Lord of the dance blah blah. Like?
IDK why everyone thinks i handmade this, i didnt. So stfu. Or just report me!
Duration : 0:2:29
Nu-Jazz Music: Fragmentorchestra - De Muse
August 262009
The Cosmic Lounge presents Nu-Jazz Music: ‘De Muse’ by Fragmentorchestra.
“Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. “A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place”. The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra…
Luca Pernici was born in Reggio Emilia in 1969. At the tender age of eight he was already carrying out preparatory studies at the local musical school “Achille Peri” and when he turned eleven, he started to take piano and solfeggio lessons whilst his passion for music and for technology pushed him to find spaces in recording studios. Later with more than ten years experience in the studio as a producer, arranger and composer his passion transformed into the desire to open his own studio in 2000: the ‘NuSound musiclab’. This became the catalyst for concentrating on and interacting with other artists and his own productions with a view to broadening his views for new horizons. It was under these conditions that he met Giulio Vetrone and the pair set up the MaffiaSoundSystem which led the pair ultimately to the beats and jazz permutations of Fragmentorchestra.
The extensive productions coming out of NuSound musiclab have inspired Luca Pernici to perform his creations to the public and for those curious of what will come next all we can say is that in the same manner that Brazilian music has influenced many artists, Senegal has captured Pernici’s mind and soul. But for the meantime set yourself free amongst the cool reflections of the Fragmentorchestra.”
http://www.last.fm/music/Fragmentorchestra
Duration : 0:6:16
Celtic Music Irish Dance Lord Of the Dance
August 172009
Something very important gift for me from my darling…it was love at first sight and listening…hope you all enjoy too…
Love u bb thank you
Duration : 0:3:8
Chris Rock about Rap Music
August 112009
Chris Rock at its best: Stand up Comedy about society, daily Life, America and Relationship.
Here hes talking about how hard it is to defend Rap Music and Hip Hop today.
Also mentioned: Tupac, Little John
Duration : 0:7:19
Nu-Jazz Music: Micatone - Playmobile Soldier
July 302009
The Cosmic Lounge presents Nu-Jazz Music: ‘Playmobile Soldier’ by Micatone.
“German electronic/jazz band: Boris Meinhold (guitar, synth), Tim Kroker (drums), Sebastian “Hagen” Demmin (keyboards; worked as a live keyboarder with Daft Punk), Lisa Bassenge (vocals), Stefan Rogall (programming), and Paul Kleber (kontrabass).
After the splendid albums “Nine Songs” and “Is You Is”, Micatone present their third album “Nomad Songs” on Sonarkollektiv. Their first two albums were more electronically influenced and showed their studio production abilities. For “Nomad Songs”, Micatone aims to present songs that work either plugged in or unplugged.”
http://www.last.fm/music/Micatone
Duration : 0:5:34
Yunnan Folk Song and Dance(花腰歌舞)
July 282009
Literally, it is called Flower Waist Song and Dance.
“Dynamic Yunnan” is filled with songs and dances that celebrate the sun, the moon and the region’s folk legends. Ms. Yang said part of the show’s popularity stems from its authenticity: nearly all the performers are young people from Yunnan’s ethnic minorities. And like her, few have had formal training.
One young man, she said, was selected after she heard him crying out for his runaway cow. A young girl was chosen after pleading for the opportunity to dance so she could earn the $48 it would cost her family to buy a cow. Ms. Yang said the girl’s story moved her to tears. “I picked her even though I thought she was too short,” Ms. Yang said, laughing. “But she works hard. I can always hear her singing in the back. She puts all her energy into it. You see, this show is nothing but real life.”
To prepare the show, Ms. Yang said she spent more than a year traveling to remote villages in her native Yunnan, studying local dances, recording disappearing folk songs and recruiting dozens of young people from ethnic minority groups. Yunnan is China’s most ethnically diverse province.
Many of the villages she visited were wedged between mountains and seemingly lost to the modern world. There she encountered the folk rhythms of farmers and villagers who seemed to have a natural aptitude for song and dance.
“In these villages, people have songs and dances for every event - when they’re happy, at harvest time, when they’re getting married or mourning,” she said. “It’s not a choice, it’s a lifestyle.”
花腰歌舞
(石屏县花腰彝) Song & Dance of Huayao Tribe
彝族人有句俗话：”有嘴不会唱，白活在世上；有脚不能跳，俏也无人要”。”海菜腔”发源于云南石屏异龙湖一带，彝家姑娘在湖中捕鱼时，一边划船，一边唱歌，歌声就象水中随波浪起伏的海菜，因而叫”海菜腔”，”海菜腔”极其优美、复杂、动听，是滇南”四大腔”(”海菜腔”、”山悠腔”、”四腔”、”五山腔”)中最难学、最难唱的民歌。舞者们唱三拍，跳二拍，手击一拍，在原生、经典舞蹈中堪称一绝。生活在石屏县哨冲、龙朋、龙武一带的花腰彝，小姑娘从11、2岁就开始学做针线，绣花、缝衣服，一套衣服要做4、5年，最后就穿着这套一针一线亲手缝制的衣服出嫁，不会绣花缝衣的姑娘嫁不出去。演员们穿的衣服就是她们亲手缝制的。
Duration : 0:8:11
irish music and dance