[ngower]

Can anyone recommend me sounds of Pakistan, India, and the like? Hard to describe, and I made a thread a while back about "world music".
 
I don't know these songs well, I just YouTube'd until I found sounds in the vein of what I'm looking for...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2JjOoS6KFI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqhNPY882kE&feature=related
 
..and the sound that inspired me to make the "world" thread...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxlHaQ1yPAc

 

[FalconP]

The examples sound more Turkish than anything, and for something similar, you may check out the album One Truth by Omar Faruk Tebelik, or this rather old (but fine) recording of a Whirling Dervish ceremony.
 
The label Traditional Crossroads is a great source of middle-eastern music, in particular Iranian, Turkish, and Armenian.  The French label Al Sur is also renowned, but their releases are perhaps harder to find.
 
For Pakistani Sufi singing, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a natural choice, but I'm more impressed by the raw energy of this young ensemble called Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali.  The album Sacrifice to Love is essential listening.

 

[ngower]

Thanks! Testing out my new DAC with the Omar Faruk Tebelik album and it's stunning stuff! Exactly what I was looking for. Brazed over the other few, will give them a proper listen at some point.

 

[ujamerstand]

Keep them coming! Some modern mixture between classical music and middle eastern music like the stuff from Armand Amar is nice too.

 

[FalconP]

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Keep them coming! Some modern mixture between classical music and middle eastern music like the stuff from Armand Amar is nice too.

Take a look at the album Song From the Victorious City by Anne Dudley and Jaz Coleman.  Not exactly classical in sound, but the musicians are classically trained and the music does carry strains of western classical style.
 
Composer Hughes de Courson has produced two volumes of Mozart in Egypt project.  The conversation between the music of mozart and traditional Egyptian music is not always convincing -- it is especially jarring when Courson rams a large orchestra against an intimate traditional instrumental ensemble -- but Mozart's chamber pieces and songs are, for the most part, arranged beautifully.
 

 

[dura]

VAS: In the garden of Souls might be to your liking.
If it can be slightly more Indian, Al Gromer Khan, f.i. Space Hotel or Kamasutra Experience, are worth seeking out; a subtle mix of electronics and sitar.

 

[hairuko]

If there's one album you should get it's Niyaz - Niyaz.
 
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.