Apalam Chapalam

Hit song from the movie "Azaad" (1955), sung by Lata and Usha Mangeshkar.

Soweto Gospel Choir

Mixing African gospel with traditional hymns, Jamaican reggae, American pop, and spiritually themed secular songs, the Soweto Gospel Choir are an impressive performing unit.
God Bless Africa!

Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically-acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality.

Janani janani

Devotional song by great Ilaiyaraaja:



Janani janani jagam nee agam nee
jaga kaarani nee paripoorani nee
jaga kaarani nee paripoorani nee...

Boy George and Krishna

Inspired by his involvement in the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON),Boy George had written the song during a trip to India in 1989.



From bombay to bangalore
All the hindus know the score
If you wanna live some more
Hare, hare, hare

If you do not take the vow
You can eat the sacred cow
Youll get karma anyhow
Hare, hare, hare

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

Do the right thing with your hands
Lay down on the pleasing sands
Whatever else your faith demands
Hare, hare, hare

From bombay to rajastan
Nitai guara, radha syam
Hare krishna hare ram
Hare, hare, hare

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

In the desert jahshamire
They put kun in their hair
At the westemers they stare
Hare, hare, hare

Paint a tilak on your brow
Open like a lotus flower
Its time to check your karma now
Hare, hare, hare

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

Bow down mister
Hare rama, hare krishna
Bow down mister
We say radha syam

Bow down mister
We say radha syam
Bow down mister
We say radha syam
Bow down mister

Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord

Hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare
Hare ram hare ram rama rama hare hare
Hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare
Hare ram hare ram rama rama hare hare...

Mynta

Sweden and India find a common place in music through the ears and imagination of the group Mynta. Founded in 1979, the group has created their own genre of music, while preserving the integrity and traditions of their root sounds. The Swedish-Indian fusionists define world music, by extracting the organic elements that runs through the vein of centuries-old musical histories.
MYNTA is led by the Indian musicians Fazal Qureshi (tabla) and Shankar Mahadevan (vocal). These virtuosos within the classic Indian musical tradition have performed all over the world with such musicians as Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, and Zakir Hussain. Fazal is the younger brother of Zakir Hussain, who belonged to John McLaughlin's famous group Shakti, one of the earliest fusion bands in Europe.

Performers
SANTIAGO JIMENEZ - Violin, Keyboard
DALLAS SMITH - Indian flute, Soprano, Clarinet
CHRISTIAN PAULIN - Electric Bass
FAZAL QURESHI - Tabla, Kanjira
MAX ÅHMAN - Acoustic Guitar
OLA BOTHZÉN - Percussion
SHANKAR MAHADEVAN - Vocal

Sabri Brothers

The Sabri Brothers originally consisted of Ghulam Farid Sabri (1930 -1994; lead vocals, harmonium), Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (b.1941 ; lead vocals, harmonium), Kamal Sabri (d. 2001; vocals, swarmandal), Mehmood Ghaznavi Sabri (b. 1949; vocals, bongo drums, tambourine), Fazal Islam (chorus), Azmat Farid Sabri (chorus), Sarwat Farid Sabri (chorus), Javed Kamal Sabri (chorus), Umer Daraz (chorus), Abdul Aziz (chorus), Masihuddin (chorus, tanpura), Abdul Karim (dholak), and Mohammed Anwar (nal, tabla).

Traviata

Villazon, Domingo, Netrebko. Berlin 2006

Gnawa

Gnawa music is a mixture of sub-Saharan African, Berber, and Arabic religious songs and rhythms. It combines music and acrobatic dancing. The music is both a prayer and a celebration of life. Though many of the influences that formed this music can be traced to sub-Saharan Africa, and specifically, the Western Sahel, its practice is concentrated in north Africa, mainly Morocco and Algeria.
Live video recording from the Essaouira 2008 Gnaoua and World Music Festival featuring Maalem Omar Hayat with Franck Vaillant (Drums), Jon Balcke Norway (Piano / keyboards), Mohamed Derouich (Guitar) France / Morocco, Ibrahim Maalouf (Trumpet / Lebanon).

Abida Parveen

Parveen is the only woman allowed to sing at the shrines of the Sufi saints.
How was this woman able to change the mind of a man who for many years had refused to give musical instruction to his own daughter, who would grow up to become the popular Pakistani vocalist Riffat Sultana?
Her style of singing is clearly different from any other prominent singer in this tradition, and not just because all of the others are male. Abida sings solo with a small ensemble of musicians, who follow the ebb and flow of her dynamic cues with remarkable skill and awareness. In quieter passages, she will often sing alap-like tempo variations in the middle of a piece as the harmonium and percussion pulsate quietly, then surge upward again with a driving beat.

Om Namaha

Film: Gitanjali (1989)
Directed by Mani Ratnam.
Music by Ilayaraja

Le Jazz Hot

My favorite song from "Victor/Victoria"(1982.
Performed by Julie Andrews.
Original Music by Henry Mancini.

Chalte chalte - "Pakeezah"

Beautiful Meena Kumari...
And beautiful ghazal written by Kaifi Azmi, music by Gulam Mohamed.
From the film "Pakeezah", directed by Kamal Amrohvi.
Of course sung by great Lata.

Souad Massi

She is a leading light among the young Algerian artists. She sings the Arabic language with a sweet and pure voice. Her songs are of folk rock rhythms (besides she is often compared to Joan Baez or Tracy Chapman).

Kiran Ahluwalia

Ahluwalia sings Ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, mainly in a traditional style. (According to her website, she studied the art of Ghazal for several years in Hyderabad with a teacher named Vithal Rao, "one of the last living court musicians of the Nizam (King) of Hyderabad.") She has a remarkable, strong voice. Her band, which includes western guitar and bass, and has a bit of a jazz sensibility.

Uday Bhawalkar

Highly praised by music critics, the singer Uday Bhawalkar counts in present-day India as one of the younger generation´s leading exponents of dhrupad, one of the oldest forms of classical song still current in the north of India.
Raag: Bhinna Shadja

Zindagi ye

Nice qawwali Zindagi ye of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan from the film Dil Kabbadi

Great Janis

Janis Joplin in 1969.Just one year before her death ...
This is a great version of "Little Girl Blue"! It's astounding.

LAKME - DELIBES - OPERA IMAGINAIRE

Opera Imaginaire (1993) is an assembly of animated short films based on twelve of opera's most popular arias, including excerpts from "The Magic Flute," "Tosca," "Madame Butterfly," "Pagliacci" and more.

Flower duet, directed by Pascal Roulin, music from LAKME by Léo Delibes (1836-1891).

Under a dome of white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On a river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning

Gently floating on it's charming risings
On the river's current
On the shining waves
One hand reaches
Reaches for the bank
Where the spring sleeps and
The birds, the birds sing.

Under a dome of white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!

Under a dome of white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On a river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning
Let us descend together
Gently floating on it's charming risings,
On the river's current
On the shining waves,
One hand reaches,
Reaches for the bank,
Where the spring sleeps,
And the birds, the birds sing.

Under a dome of white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!

Fabulous!

Bebo Valdes and El Cigala

That's pianist Bebo Valdes, one of Cuba's great jam session players of the 1950s (and still a potent force on the music scene) and flamenco vocalist Diego "El Cigala," whose half-croaked, Arabic-tinged inflections offer a fine counterpoint to Valdes's trademark sleek, supple piano runs.