#eastern music

[vegathesource]

microtonal chords make me feel new, alien things. it feels like a soundtrack for a far away planet, or what alien music could sound like. it's also like I'm hearing math when music artists who really understand microtonal music theory create absolutely insane underrated songs.

art is from the Universal Transmissions Journal

[daily-classical]

Mvt I

Mvt II

Mvt III

[bobemajses]

A Jewish dance tune from Maramures, Romania, played on a tsimbl (cymbalom, a type of wooden dulcimer).

Originating from sixteenth century Hungary, the instrument became all over Eastern Europe an essential component of the klezmer band. The (singular) Hungarian word cimbalom and the Yiddish tsimbl became the plural forms cymbaly in Polish, tsymbaly in Ukrainian and Belorussian, and tambal in Romanian. The old Romanian word tambelar for a performer derives directly from Yiddish. Likewise, the appearance of the tambal mic (little cymbal) in Roma tarafs (ensembles) was a reflection of a Jewish klezmer presence in the early to mid-nineteenth century. The tsimbl is still regarded as a Jewish instrument in Poland, and as a Jewish-derived home instrument among the former Polish gentry of Belarus. The association of Jews with the instrument is found even as far west as Holland and Ireland.

[reasonsforhope]

"Eighty-year-old Silvia Dan learnt her folk songs at her grandmother’s knee. Having spent her life caring for livestock on her smallholding in the Carpathian Mountains, she’s now starring on an album released in the UK.

Made by Romanian-born, Brighton-based artist Nico de Transilvania, the album – Interbeing – was recorded in the remote village of Nucsoara, where Dan is renowned for the pure beauty of her voice. A team of artists, videographers, photographers and musicians travelled to the village 180km north of Bucharest to record with Dan and local musicians on traditional Romanian flutes.

It is an area that is renowned for its old-growth forests which support lynx, wolves and bears, and is often described as the Amazon of Europe. Illegal logging has severely affected the region, so de Transilvania wanted to record the album as a way to use music to restore some of the damage. Every copy of the album sold will go towards planting native trees that are properly protected in law, in a project personally overseen by de Transilvania via her nonprofit Forests without Frontiers. So far the organisation has planted 150,000 trees over the last three years.

For Dan, whose grandmother wrote all her own folk songs, it feels right that they are now helping to restore the forests that inspired her.

“The album means a lot to me, it makes me proud that future generations will hear my ancestor’s songs – music and nature are embedded in our blood,” she said. “I am so happy that money raised will help to restore the landscape near my village – it has been devastating to see the destruction, and this project gives me hope.”"

-via Positive News, 2/20/23

[chroniclesofnadia111]

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[todayontumblr]

Tuesday, August 15.

Welcome to Planet of the Bass.

He is The Man of The Hour. All appeared lost as we entered the first days of August, 2023, with still no Song of the Summer to call our own. At this darkest moment, one man and one woman appeared on the horizon; like Gandalf and Éomer in the east, overlooking Helm's Deep. Only where Gandalf brought shadowfax, the morning light, and 2,000 riders, this summer, DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica bring nothing but bass, bass, baggy crop tops, Y2K club outfits, more bass, and skiing goggles. And we simply cannot thank them enough. So if you have spent the last week pondering the big questions, like how life, it never die, or if women are your favorite guy, then know that today there is nothing to be sad: #planet of the bass is released, in full, today. Everybody, movement.

And did we mention a Tumblr-exclusive DJ Crazy Times Spotlight?

That's right. The man himself has sat down with us to answer the internet's burning questions in this latest Spotlight over at @music. His all-time gladdest rhythm? Other long-lost staples of the 90s he would love to bring back? What he would do during a cyber system overload? It's all here. We'll be seeing you in an undisclosed warehouse in an disclosed city in an undisclosed Eastern European nation.

And bring skiing goggles x

[lunarharp]

shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc

[conkreetmonkey]

GUYS THE TRAILER FOR THE SCOTT PILGRIM ANIME IS OUT

FAITHFUL EMULATION OF THE ORIGINAL COMIC'S ART STYLE

ENTIRE CAST OF THE BELOVED LIVE-ACTION FILM HAS RETURNED TO VOICE, DESPITE MANY OF THEM BEING FAR BIGGER NAMES NOW THAN WHEN THE MOVIE CAME OUT

HIGH QUALITY, EXPERIMENTAL 2D ANIMATION IN A MODERN HIGH-BUDGET TV SHOW. COMPLEX MOVEMENT, LIGHTING AND PERSPECTIVE ON DISPLAY

ORIGINAL CREATOR PLAYING A LARGE ROLE CREATIVELY

MAY BE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANIME TO FEATURE CANADA AS AN ACTUAL FUCKING SETTING

FINALLY, SOME GOOD FUCKING TV! YES! FUCK YES! YEEEEESSSS!!!

[humanoidhistory]

Budapest, Hungary, 1973.

[x-heesy]

𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 🤍

𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊 𝙸𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚊 „𝙴𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚞𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎“ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚕 ✨

#fashion #fashiongram #fashionable #fashionphotography #fashionlover #fashionart #fashionaddict #fashionphotographer #fashionpost #fashionshoot #fashionlove #fashionlovers #fashioneditoral #editoral #catwalk @esotericsnob 🤍

𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊

[dingus0401]

me: today is my favorite holiday of the year!

friend: but christmas is tmrw?

me:😈😈😈

DECEMBER 24th 9 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME FROM HERE ON IN I SHOOT WITHOUT A SCRIPT. SEE IF ANYTHING COMES OF IT INSTEAD OF MY OLD SHIT. FIRST SHOT ROGER TUNING THE FENDER GUITAR HE HASN’T PLAYED IN A YEAR. tHiS wOnT tUnE. so we hear heh. HES JUST COMING BACK, FROM HALF A YEAR OF WITHDRAWAL. u taking to me? NOT AT ALLLLLLL. ARE YOU READY HOLD THAT FOCUS STEADYYYY. TELL THE FOLKS AT HOME WHAT UR DOING ROGERRRR i’m writing one great songgg

THE PHONE RINGS

saveddd

WE SCREENNN ZOOM IN ON THE ANSWERING MACHINE.

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Zahra explains perfectly the influence of the Rastafarian movement on Eastern Europe as a symbol of change and freedom after the fall of the USSR. The music and culture of Jamaica has touched this part of the world in a profound way!

Many Eastern Europeans grew up with ska and reggae music, picking up the culture that came with it, along with the style (colors, clothes, hair, jewelry, lifestyle) of the famous raggae musicians at the time. They know about the history of Jamaica and Reggae and the message behind it, which became important to their lives in a time of political change.

Rastafarianism mixed with the local culture, creating subcultures. Since music has a global reach, many Eastern Europeans created their own raggae bands and sung in their own language, sometimes mixing raggae with their local folk music. As Zahra explained, Jamaicans are excited and welcoming to people who have adopted this style around the world and who have their own ska and raggae subculture (like Polish reggae, since reggae there is mainstream).

The movement also touched the Balkans and it's been going on for decades now, although it's not very popular today. One person in the comments wrote "There's a Bob Marley statue in my small serbian village, that should tell you everything lol" 😂

I know in Greece there are still shops that sell clothes and jewelry of this style and some even braid or mat your hair. (Or sell hair extensions) There's still Greek raggae music played in beach bars sometimes. But in Cyprus raggae has grown roots because political change was also strong there during the last decades and people adopted the culture quickly.

Note: Some people dressing like this follow the Hippie subculture which has roots in Rastafarian subculture.

[yakasha]

Klezmer musicians in Ukraine, 1912

[fatally-alive]

PH: 古溪一道 Kazumichi Kokei

Beautiful !

[pissmoon]

So much intercultural exchange of music and movies and whatnot would not be possible without piracy!

[misterradio]

WAIT some osamu sato lost media was found & uploaded hold on a minute

OBSERVE COMPU MOVIE!!

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