wikipedia says "The goblet drum (also chalice drum) is a goblet shaped hand drum used mostly in Arabic, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music. Its thin, responsive drumhead and resonance help it produce a distinctively crisp sound. It is of ancient origin, and is believed by some to have been invented before the chair."
In a recent entry, I posted sum vids of pnjbi/indo kids improving dhol beats over hh / global pop. I found a number of similar Turkish videos, featuring "darbuka mix" or "saz versions" of various global us/carib tracks. The videos aren't as fun because they aren't live, but the results are just as great.
& Missy, Chris Brown, Usher, Speedy & Lumidee wait.. Speedy & Lumidee's Sentello? I was surprised reggaeton was so big in Senegal & the Maghreb, who knows why was I again surprised Turkey & the balkins love it too?
Theres a part of me that wants to believe these finds aren't random but from shared Andalusian/ triangletrade/ Mediterranean music sensibilities. (what?) but who knows. After all, you find lambada in Japan. oh wait. reasons?
Oh, Reggaeton is huge in the Balkans. Part of it is the almost perfect gel to the rhythms of turkish arabesk pop, which is the biggest genre of the region, part of it the love for latin culture in general (which goes way futher back) and for the mafioso imagery. I'm going to post a few reggaeton-inflected Chalga tunes in my Bulgaria mixtape, coming up.
BTW, if you're into live drums doing beats, have you seen the Kurdish girls' hip-hop dance video that's been going around?
An unabashed xenophile, my blog looks at emerging ideas and patterns in global pop music and its audience/reception. Unimpressed with majority music scholorship and journalism, I hope to bring my own perspective to the crowded behemoth that is music bloggery. Other intrests include tourism and nation branding, 'gayness' lived and concieved in pop, and the technologies that connect and divide us.
I recently worked for ACF doing sampling and mapping in Haiti, and will soon be heading back to school to officially pursue public health. I studied critical theory and religious studies at Hobart and William Smith in New York , as well as international relations and development at Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal.
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Oh, Reggaeton is huge in the Balkans. Part of it is the almost perfect gel to the rhythms of turkish arabesk pop, which is the biggest genre of the region, part of it the love for latin culture in general (which goes way futher back) and for the mafioso imagery. I'm going to post a few reggaeton-inflected Chalga tunes in my Bulgaria mixtape, coming up.
BTW, if you're into live drums doing beats, have you seen the Kurdish girls' hip-hop dance video that's been going around?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxlYmpNiRWg
oh god, this remix is the best stuff I've ever seen in my whole life, this DJ is a genius!
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