GYUTO MONKS TANTRIC CHOIR – Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Chants | A World Of Music

Gyuto (also spelled Gyütö or Gyüto) Tantric University is one of the great monastic institutions of the Gelug Order. Gyuto was founded in 1475 by Jetsun Kunga Dhondup and is one of the main tantric colleges of the Gelug tradition. In Tibet, monks who had completed their geshe studies would be invited to join Gyuto…

MVSAFIR – Ninderli | Gypsies of Rajasthan (2005)

Hameed Khan, professional musician from Jaipur, initiated the band project Musafir to present the music of Rajasthan to the rest of the world. After an experimental phase with multicultural formations in Europe, the famous tabla musician turned back to his original roots. The general freedom of the Rajasthani music and Kameed Khan's knowledge, dictate the…

FANNA-FI-ALLAH – Haq Ali Ali [The Truth, Ali, Ali] | Sufi Qawwali | Live @ The Barbicon, London (2022)

Fanna-Fi-Allah is a Canadian–American group which plays Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia. Fanna means “annihilation” in Arabic (in a spiritually ascetic sense). Fanna-Fi-Allah designates the spiritual state in which one annihilates one’s self and is absorbed in God. The Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali ensemble perform Haq Ali Ali live at the Barbican in London…

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN – Traditional Qawwali in Ragas Marwa & Bhatiyar

Indian rāga is not to be confused with Jamaican ragga (a subgenre of dancehall and reggae). A rāga is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. The rāga is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, and as a result has no direct translation…

ENSEMBLE INTERCONTEMPORAIN – Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder (2023)

Composer's notes: The entire text for the piece is Genesis 28:12. At first thought, a musical equivalent to a ladder might well be a scale or mode. The messengers (the Hebrew word also means "angels") ascending and descending then become notes on that scale or mode. Of course, one sometimes only goes up a few…

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Live on KEXP (2014)

Anna von Hausswolff (born 6 September 1986) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and pipe organist. She is known for her gothic-styled music, usually accompanied by the pipe organ. Von Hausswolff’s music has received praise from music critics, though it also caused controversy from Catholic groups. “The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra” is taken from…

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – Come Wander With Me / Deliverance (2016)

Anna von Hausswolff (born 6 September 1986) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and pipe organist. She is known for her gothic-styled music, usually accompanied by the pipe organ. Von Hausswolff’s music has received praise from music critics, though it also caused controversy from Catholic groups. “The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra” is taken from…

ALMA SUFI ENSEMBLE feat. LEÓN GIECO & GASTÓN SAIED – Sólo le pido a Dios (Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic)

"Sólo le pido a Dios" is a famous protest song by Argentine singer-songwriter León Gieco. It is the first song of Gieco's 1978 album, IV LP. Born in 1951, León Gieco is an Argentine folk rock performer, composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentinian rock and roll, and lyrics…

GEOFFREY ORYEMA – No Ballads Ballad

Geoffrey Oryema (1953–2018) was a Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister in the government of Idi Amin, he began his life in exile. At the age of 24, and at the height of Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled out of the country in…

HAYED AYAD, KATICA ILLENYI, MONIKA JUHASZ-MITZURA – Le Chant de la Paix | Tony Gatlif’s Swing (OST)

Swing is a French film by Tony Gatlif, released in 2002. In a suburb of Strasbourg, Alsace, France, ten-year-old boy, Max, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother. He hears Manouche gypsy Romani music being played in a local bar, and loves it. He goes to visit the gypsies in search of a guitar, where…