Hi all, I am interested in listening to music for more countries around the world. Does anyone have some neat tunes they could recommend that come from their homeland? I prefer rockish and punkish music I guess (stuff with guitars, drums, etc., not too familiar with specific sub-genres)
For context, I have already got a bunch of suggestions from browsing different forums, Reddit, etc. These are some artists that have already been suggested, and could be a basis for what kind of music I like I guess. All of these are Central/Eastern European or Balkan (what can I say, they make great music): BTR and Ahat (Bulgarian), Kino (Russian), Myslovitz, Lady Pank, Kult, and Republika (Polish), Bi-2 (Belarussian), Vennaskond (Estonian), Emir & The Frozen Camels (Bosnian)
Alien weaponry is a metal band from New Zealand that has a lot of songs at least partially in Maori
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Check out the netlabel plainly named ‘Russian Post-punk’ for some of that genre from various post-Soviet countries.
Some more from Eastern Europe:
Russia:
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NOM, e.g. ‘Entertainers choir of the conductors reserve’ — 90s ironic punkish rock, often mocking popular kitsch and consumerism. Now doing some metal-y songs with commentary on current events.
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Nol — 80s-90s bayan folk-punk. Later Fyodor Chistyakov recorded some moody interpretations of classical music on bayan, and currently lives in the US and has released English versions of his old songs (but they suck, because he’s old now and because the songs don’t translate well).
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Mango-Mango — 90s comedy-rock with splendid ska-ish instrumentation
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Nogu Svelo — 90s absurdist rock
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Boney Nem: e.g. ‘Heavy Nagila’ and ‘Chito-grito-margalito’ — mostly parodying cheesy Russian pop music in thrash and death metal. The 2003 album ‘День Победы’ (‘Day of Victory’) is full of bangers.
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Lemonday — acoustic-ish low-fi somewhat absurdist anti-folk. Their best stuff is these old videos on YouTube.
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Inturist — jazz/post-punk fusion
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toska po domu — electronic post-punk (Russian, based in Tel-Aviv)
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My friend tape recorder — very danceable post-punk, oddly lyrical
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margenrot — post-punk/post-industrial with some Arabic motifs
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Beskultura - noise-rock
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Megapolis — retro rock (the linked song is actually a cover of a 1958 song, but with different lyrics)
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Egor Letov / Grazhdanskaya Oborona — 90s psychedelic punk (fun fact: Egor’s brother Sergei Letov is a jazz saxophonist, famously having played in Sergei Kuryokhin’s band)
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Straw Raccoons — 90s absurdist noise-rock/punk
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Zemfira — 2000s inscrutable Russian alt-rock with pretty good instrumentation, afaik all written by the titular lead singer and leader of her band
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Anatoly Nikulin’s ‘Russian Music’ is a bunch of prog-rock/electronic covers of early-20th-century classical music that was influenced by the folk tradition back then
5’nizza — 90s Ukrainian reggae-rock
Воплі Відоплясова — Ukrainian folk-rock
The Hypnotunez — Ukrainian, playing some kinda Balkan-ska/swing
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra — a rather obvious recommendation for Serbian/Balkan folk-rock
Zdob și Zdub — Moldovan, playing Balkan folk-rock
Đorđe Marjanović was a popular Serbian/Yugoslav singer of the 1960s with rock’n’roll songs among other stuff
Demolition Group — Slovenian post-punkish rock, known for inclusion on the ‘Trans Slovenia Express’ tribute compilation by Laibach
the VAPE (Petr Válek) — hilarious Czech noise
A Hawk & A Hacksaw — USian, but mixing Balkan, Jewish and Turkish music
Elsewhere:
Die Toten Hosen — German bar-punk
Sexy Sushi — French electroclash / synth-punk (picks up with the forth track in particular)
Hedningarna and Värttinä — Nordic folk-rock
Garmarna — Swedish folk-rock
Ulver’s ‘Kveldssanger’ is an acoustic album of sorta Norwegian folk-rock, made between two raw-black-metal albums
Tappi Tíkarrass and Kukl — Icelandic, punk/post-punk bands in which Björk was before The Sugarcubes
(Perhaps check out the 1982 concert/documentary film ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’, from which the Tappi Tíkarrass footage is taken, for more Icelandic post-punk/new-wave bands.)
‘Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968–1974’ and ‘Cambodian Rocks’ — brilliant compilations of garage-ish rock of Vietnam and Cambodia from back in the day
Pungo — Japanese jazzy post-punk/folk (see ‘Waltz’ in particular)
Garage Chanson Show — Japanese dark-cabaret
Melt-Banana — Japanese noise-rock
Ruins — Japanese prog/noise-rock
Faye Wong — Hong-Kong pop, check out the cover of ‘Dreams’ from the film ‘Chungking Express’
Mammals — Chinese noise/math-rock
Mimilocos — most probably Argentinian, coldwave
Molotov — Mexican rap/alt-rock
I need to save this for later, damn
Well, that’s what I do. =)
I keep my music lists in notes.At least on the desktop and in the Voyager app, you can get the Markdown text of my comment and save that if you have an app that understands Markdown. Or, the text can probably be copied from the browser together with links and pasted in an app that processes such links, in the manner of WordPad and some web and mobile apps.
You are absolutely incredible. Thank you.
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German here. I once made a playlist of my favorite german punk songs, 'cuz it’s my main genre. The playlist isn’t up to date anymore because I quit using Spotify, but maybe you can find some cool songs from there!
Kind of fitting the punk attitude and rock-ish in sound is a Finnish band called Ursus Factory. I love them, seen them live a few times, such energy. And it’s just two blokes, nothing more. It’s so surprising they make it work live too, since in studio releases they tend to have some backing tracks, but it just somehow works.
Bio in eng: https://ursusfactory.net/ENG-Bio
Not sure if it’s as good if you can’t pick up the lyrics, but here’s a few of my favorites:
- Sadetakin pintaan: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Jrvlp6oSsvE
- Mitä luolassa on: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=3vAxM_1XHW8
- Oletko siellä: https://lordag.ffm.to/oletkosiella
- Tuun tuun tuun: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=E0B0mzOxcc4
- Mitä mies mitä äijä: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=EcbO3SBrxbY
Seriously suggest checking out!
Edit: For tidal users, I made this playlist to quickly check those five out: https://tidal.com/playlist/545e800a-1f64-4a2d-a536-1de2267ec40f
Female fronted Doom from Japan:
https://magdaleneju-nen.bandcamp.com/album/jingai-kitan
Female fronted stoner from Italy:
https://frayle.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-witch-ep
First nation’s Yolnu Surf-Rock from Australia (English and Yolnu matha):
https://kingstingray.bandcamp.com/album/king-stingray
Argentinian punk:
punk scene in Ireland started up the north late 70s with bands like the Undertones, and Stuff Little Fingers In the 90s you’d have Ash (alt rock) and Therapy? (punk/metal crossover) The only current punkish one I can think now are Fontaines DC and Murder Capital
Russian/CIS rock:
- Melnitsa
tl. Windmill. Folk rock with a very unique and not direct (literary) lyrics
- Louna
1 word: protest
- Splean
Very lyrical, often describing slice of life situations
- Korol i shut
tl. King and Jester. Punk/horror folk rock.
- DDT
Feels like late-soviet bard rock
Odd that ‘Splean’ is spelled like that in English, when the original word directly corresponds to ‘spleen’ as in bad mood or melancholy. Wikipedia notes that it’s ‘a pun on the spelling of the Beatles’, but it doesn’t quite work imo.
Well for the US, at least the industrial inland rust belt part, I think it has got to be The Armed.
I’d say G.O.A.T. And Your M.O.M. is the most USian punk band. (Mildly nsfw.)
Ku de Judas, from Portugal. They were a cult band in the 1980’s. Most members have already died.
Mata-Ratos is another. They still exist today.
Any particular tracks from either that you would recommend?
I know they existed but I’m not familiar with their work. So, just listen to what you can and have fun.
Annem eteğimi vermedi by padme. A trans anthem in Turkish
Dutch punk:
- Hang Youth
- Tusky*
- John Coffey*
- Ploegendienst
- Gewapend beton
- Heideroosjes
- ZOEKHETUITMAN
- TAXITAXI
- Bongloard*
If you like something more ska/funky:
- Politie Warnsveld
- Gijsjaradijsja
- Doe Maar
Can’t really add links right now, if I remember to I’ll see if I can tomorrow. Bands with an asterix have english lyrics, the others have dutch lyrics
海闊天空 - The most popular Cantopop song, I think almost every Cantonese speaker knows it.
Beyond (Hong Kong Band) also has a lot of other cool songs
I made this “radio” for Brazilian punk, hardcore, crust and thrash, you can skip and download songs there https://brpunkplayer.neocities.org/
