World Entertainment Friday, Week 43
Weekly selection of somewhat unusual music from around the world
From the darkest corners of YouTube, here are some songs that you’re unlikely to ever hear on FM radio.
If you know something that would fit in, let me know in the comments.
Artist: Talisk
Title: Storm
Country: UK (Scotland)
Year: 2022
These guys were quite popular around 2015-18, and then somehow everyone forgot about them. That’s a shame, they’re still good.
Artist: Fuad İbrahimli
Title: Fəridəm
Country: Azerbaijan
Year: 2021
This song was originally written by Andrey Babayev (1923-1964), who was born in Karabakh, grew up in Baku and died barely forty years old in Moscow.
Artist: Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
Title: A Tenkes Kapitánya (Captain Tenkesh)
Country: Hungary
Year: 2014
This song was originally from 1963 Hungarian TV series of the same name. It was written by Tihomir Vujičić (Hungarian spelling: Vujicsics Tihamér) (1929-1975), who was born in Hungary in the family of a Serbian Orthodox priest but died in a plane crash in Syria.
These are so fun, Rat! I felt like that middle one invented a whole new genre.
Eastern Gypsy? I lived in Greece several years, and detect some hints from lands north of her.