Folk music songs from your countries

HeathenPride

HeathenPride

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Haha! i don't know people still care about the folk musics of their countries, but if still, that'd be nice to see the musics of your countries.

For starting, i am putting two songs from here, which are so classic...

==Yemen Türküsü==

This song is a folk song and the composer of it is unknown. It is probably written during the destruction time of Ottomans that we lost many people in different places in the world also in middle east. Middle east was a part of Ottoman Empire (including today's Israel) but Ottomans was not strong enough and the UK has took middle east from Turks, and we lost many people there. This song is about the ones who went there but who couldn't return back. The singer is Ruhi Su who researched many Turkish songs when he was alive.

Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5wWbCDduYBM

English Translation:

There is no cloud in the sky, why is there smoke?
There is no death today, why is there screaming and crying?
How rough are those Yemen lands?
My god, it's Yemen, its rose is dying,
Those who go Yemen, I wonder why, never come back again
This is the city called Mus, its streets are all up on the hill
Those who go Yemen, I wonder why, never come back again

Orginal Lyrics

havada bulut yok bu ne dumandir
mahlede ölen yok bu ne figandir
$u yemen elleri ne de yamandir

ano yemendir
gülü çemendir
giden gelmiyor
acep nedendir

burasi mu$tur
yolu yoku$tur
giden gelmiyor
acep ne i$tir

ki$lan?n önünde asker redif sesi var
bakin çantasinda acep nesi var
bir çift kundurayla bir de fesi var

ano yemendir
gülü çemendir
giden gelmiyor
acep nedendir

burasi mu$tur
yolu yoku$tur
giden gelmiyor
acep ne i$tir

==Ayrilik Türküsü==

It is an azerbaijani song but it's also it's something like a local song of Turkey or Iran. The lyrics are in Azeri dialect. The video is funny but he sings it well:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3iJnv4ElXUM

Fikrimden geceler yatabilmirem
Bu fikri ba??mdan atabilmirem
(repeat)
Neyleyim ki sene çatabilmirem
Ayr?l?k ayr?l?K aman ayr?l?k
Herbir dertten ala yaman ayr?l?k
(repeat)

Uzundur hicrimden kara geceler
Bilmirem ben geldim hara geceler
(repeat)
Buruktur hicrimden kara geceler
Ayr?l?k ayr?l?K aman ayr?l?k
Herbir dertten ala yaman ayr?l?k

(there is the english subtitles on video)
 
I love the Yemen Türküsü and its story, so I'll try to tell a little bit about it.
There are a few different stories, but I'll hang onto one of them. It was probably written by wives or lovers of soldiers who went from Mus to Yemen during the war. It is known that in that battle, almost all of the soldiers who were gone from Mus were either killed or lost. This explains the words "The ones who go there never come back" And the smoke is the smoke of the train coming on the then newly built railroad, which brings the very few soldiers surviving from the battle (most of them are injured) Nobody died on that day, but news of death arrived with the train, therefore the air is filled with cries.
And the part I love the most: "It's name is Yemen, it's rose is "çemen" (or "çimen", which means grass). It is a custom that soldiers send their beloved ones letters from the battlefield, and they put flowers (roses, mostly) in it. But since the battle in Yemen was fought on the desert, they couldn't find any flowers to send with the letters, so they put any grass they could find. Therefore the wives or lovers think that there are no flowers in Yemen, the only thing that grows there is grass. Pretty sad, isn't it?
 
A lot of Týr's songs are originally danish folk songs. My knowledge of real folk from here is limited, and I don't think there's a lot of music done with it. I don't like it anyway, and I don't really think a lot of people from here like it either. There's a very limited interest in danish folk music.
 
In Spain there's a lot of old and brand new bands playing folk, some of them in a pure style and other fussioning with all kind of actual music, most of them with rock, of course.
There are two differciate main styles depending on the cultural ancestors, in the north and atlantic is a more celtic music, on theother side, south and mediterranian is, of course, a mediterranian style.

From north:
Galicia: Carlos Nuñez, one of the best international bagpipers
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=C1bffYZdRm0
Euskal Herria: Kepa Junkera, basque "trikitilari", here with bulgarian female chorus http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQKkzaScUY
And Alboka, a more folk basque band
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=OHCuxMbPzFg

From mediterranian:
Valencia: L'Ham de Foc, in a pure mediterranian style, very turkish, right?
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwRKW4cFro

As you see, in Spain all is not Flamenco....
Enjoy it.
 
Ollo-San said:
I found Carlos Nuñez on video about Celtic festivals in Britanny !
Click to expand...

Surely you mean Interceltic Lorient festival? Carlos is very friend of Chieftains, and bretons Alan Stivell and Patrick Molard (je pense qu'ils sont bretons)

Valravn- Olavur Riddararos is good, soun sas a mix of Bjork and Hedningarna

Hrvatska link dont worked, but as far as I know, I love balcanic folk.
 
vulcano, i am not so sure if it is correct but most of my abkhazian friends are telling me that basque people from spain are from the same roots with abkhanizans and related with other causasian friend.

look, this song is quite similar to Alboka:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wNUtwuGycsc

And the L'Ham de Foc is really so mediterian : ) i like spanish culture that is is strange that it has affected from both northern culture and arabian!

UnConscious: yemen turkusu is really touching so strong to me too
 
and a modernized stlye of throat singing from sakha republic where is on north eastern siberia up to polar line. sakhas are the most distant turkic people. troat singing is probably from mongolian culture and shaman religion which is based of voices from nature (animal voices, or wind etc.), but it is also common in turkic tribes in asia also on some northern europeans.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1bFdO59yzE
 
Nobody knows the procedence of basque people, seems that they've been there from dawn of time. Their language is probably one of the older one in Europe, no related with any other, as magyar and finnish.
Anyway, of course, they're caucasic indoeuropean, but nobody knows where they come from, so I dont know how do your friends know it.
I think this cultural mix amongst north and south give us a lot of particularities, so for me is a very nice heritage.
I know a little bit about Turkish along asia, Turkish is called an altaic language, as mongolian, so I can imagine the familiarity from Turkey to Sakha, via Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Altai and Tuva.
I love the Tuva throat singing, with his harmonic overtone, bands as Huun Huur Tu or Chilgirchin, and of course turkish musicians as O mar Faruk, Aynur, Erkan Ogur and others.

Nice and funny Bahat'dzarin video
 
Well turkish is an altaic language like mongolic, tungustic, japonic, korean and aninu. but according the the ural-altaic hipothesis, hungarian, finnish, estonian, sami, karelian (etc.) languages are from the same family even it's not prooved yet.

Grammaticly ural languages are so similar to Turkic languages. Especially Hungarian language has a lot of common words with Turkish like: Szakal (beard), alma (apple), balta (axe) etc. The term "Turan" (that mentioned in Avesta means 'land of tur' in iran language) (i am not a turanist myself) is based on the relation between uralic, altaic and causian people (also anceint sumerians in messapotamia).

http://www.hunmagyar.org/turan/turan.html
 
Very interesting link, I love to learn about this kind of cultures.

Bahat'dzarin video is better after smoking a weed joint:Smokedev: , I can imagine the old shaman in his eucaristic ancient rites.

May the similarities between turkish and magyar come from the age of ottoman empire? They must leave a hard footstep in cultures under their dominion, such as a lot of words, as in spanish from the arabian from Al-Andalus age.
 
Well, Hungary was under Ottoman rule for some centuries but Hungary was more like a place that Ottomans were taking taxes from them and claim the security stuff for them. It's not possible to see many things from Ottoman era in Hungary, only some mosques.

Well the relation between Magyars and Turks are very earlier than Ottomans.

Magyars were the soldiers of Atilla The Great (the word Hungarian comes from People are on side of Huns or something like that) . Huns used to be a kind of Uralic-Altaic union but majorly they were closer to Turks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns
 
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