Up next is a compilation album of folk and popular songs of Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populated state of India, with 241 million current inhabitants. There are some charming individual and choir songs on this album, which appears to be part of a series of albums that EMI released with the general title of, "Folk Songs of [name of Indian state]."
In 19th-century Scotland, farm laborers would live in small buildings called "bothies." The songs they would sing to each other were at one point collected by folklorists and are now referred to as "bothy ballads." One of the first records featuring these ballads was released in 1961 featuring singing by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
These songs are a lot of fun, and as you will soon notice, many of them feature relatively complex rhythms.
Here we have a single from Morocco from a band named Nas Labsat. I couldn't find out much about the group other than the Discogs listing.
I recently purchased a small stack of Indian EPs from a local used record store. Most seem to be songs from stage plays in the Marathi language. Some are modern Marathi songs. Here we have four songs performed by famed Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle from the play Manapman by Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar.
