pls share your interesting ethnic/national/folk music, basically any music that takes you to a different location and/or a different time of history. post the country of origin and context if you can.
Bulgarian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoM41TH7HM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoM41TH7HM)
Mongolian, watch the music video, it's fuckin 10/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK17vZFs7ss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK17vZFs7ss)
Arab (UAE), though the video centers around Egypt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBvVTNRp4Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBvVTNRp4Q)
Lebanese, the video is about how awesome it is to be Lebanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd11AgMB31c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd11AgMB31c)
Italian, where's the love??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCbIH7IFj8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCbIH7IFj8)
Turkish folk song sung by K-pop star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUEvhz1Yd0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUEvhz1Yd0)
More traditional rendition of the same Turkish folk song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymcEAeYGOw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymcEAeYGOw)
Azerbaijian / Ottoman folk song about trying to find a tall, blonde girlfriend from the mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENs5j7PsS0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENs5j7PsS0)
Interesting Turkish song in rock-and-roll eastern style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVIkkUQhIY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVIkkUQhIY)
French (Celtic Breton)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuBnZrLbq0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuBnZrLbq0)
Interesting rendition of Celtic Greensleeves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoHIVkWXnQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDoHIVkWXnQ)
More Breton music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXy3zt4txQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXy3zt4txQ)
American shit (Americans can have folk culture too, right?)
We'll Fight for Uncle Sam (Civil War, Irish-American Union fighters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQL_EQi3M3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQL_EQi3M3o)
The Yellow Rose of Texas (Civil War, Texas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArGlfEVYqM)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Civil War)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJB036ev2Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJB036ev2Q)
Battle Hymn of the Republic (Civil War, Union)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8)
I'm a Good Ol' Rebel (Civil War, Confederacy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllAnPKS6Zs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllAnPKS6Zs)
Southern Soldier (Civil War, Confederate Army)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_vlmbd72o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_vlmbd72o)
To Arms in Dixie (Civil War, Confederate Army)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTu1GDi_w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTu1GDi_w)
This is a good thread for me because folk music comprises 0.01% of what I listen to (the rest is pop). Thanks basket. Will definitely return to this thread to listen to all of those songs.
Surprise surprise guess where the first three bands that came to mind are from.
Asa Chang & Junray (Avant-garde percussive band)
http://u.pomf.is/oivvap.mp3 (http://u.pomf.is/oivvap.mp3)
Syzygys (Microtonal enka duo)
http://u.pomf.is/qtulkm.mp3 (http://u.pomf.is/qtulkm.mp3)
Hoahio (Improvisational pop supergroup)
http://u.pomf.is/gunelu.mp3 (http://u.pomf.is/gunelu.mp3)
Hope those count! Will return with more later but I don't want to flood this thread with Japanese music.
civ 5 has a lot of great music from around the world. this track by Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek is really good modern Sufi music. it was always my favorite middle eastern track in the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9FVU-PgfA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi9FVU-PgfA)
this has always been my favorite civ5 track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kV6Obvlclc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kV6Obvlclc)
that track is also fire
Some of the greatest Polish music!! This one takes us back to the Deluge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JwLLQ8oNQE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JwLLQ8oNQE)
also
russian civil war
you might enjoy this if you wish the whites had won (their unoffical hymn - farewell of slavianka)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3nPHpr-LyU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3nPHpr-LyU)