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Two Steps From Hell - Never Give Up On Your Dreams
"Buka" by Kwiat Jabłoni
Du Hast - Rammstein (German) Fighting Dreamers from Naruto (Japanese)
Nas Ne Dogoniat
Lewa lesu mai - classic Fijian song don't know who the original artist is
Also anything from Altin Gün
Prédio - Apanhador Só
I was originally gonna say Sigur Ros but that's already been covered
My shout out goes to Niteworks then, who sadly did their farewell tour last year. One of my favourites:
Seven Seconds by Youssou N'dour and Neneh Cherry (French and English)
- this was my first foray into "world music" in, like Grade 7.
Sadeness by Enigma (Latin and French)
Miserere by Arvo Pärt (Latin)
The Expanse by Clinton Shorter (Old Norse?)
Disappointment by Moon (Russian?)
Also, I lived in Korea when Gangnam Style dropped. It was magical at the outset, but now... well, hyperexposure is a real thing. But, good on Psy for his work.
Malagueña Salerosa by Chingon from Kill Bill
ETA: +1 for Carmina Burana, and I’ll add Hall of the Mountain King, & Beethoven’s 9th for good measure!
Slack Bird - Tupakkarulla
I often take little exploratory searches for some of my favorite genres in foreign languages, though the ones I remember the most tend to split between English and the other language. Stuff like Tomcraft and Sido
Metal Band-maid
Just some incredible and fun music out there when you explore the world.
Midori - Aratamemashite Hajimemashite Midori Desu
First that come to mind:
Afrobeat/pop : great Xhosa rap/singing by moonshine sanelly (English tracks too)
Prog rock: magma creates their own language
Pop: Jay Chou has great tracks in Mandarin
Punk rock: exists in most local languages
Jazz: Avishai Cohen has tracks in ladino.
Electro song: Omar Souleyman has a very interesting background and tracks a nice, sung in Arabic.
Industrial : einsturzende neubauten sings mostly German.
Neu Deutsch Harte : Rammstein is the most known example.
Electroacoustic : Gedalia tazartes, includes vocals of diverse origins
I've been a bit obsessed with one of Cleopatra's arias from Handel's Giulio Cesare, Se pietà di me non senti. She's bummed that she thinks her brother is going to have her killed.
Se pietà di me non senti giusto ciel io morirò.
Tu da' pace a' miei tormenti o quest'alma spirerò.
Just heaven, if you feel no pity for me, I shall die.
I shall give up the ghost if you do not pacify my torment
Garage rock in Spanish is my shit. I really like a lot of that city pop stuff too.
Ya Rayah by Rachid Taha
Loved it on first listen and it made me a fan of Taha’s. It’s kinda Arabic pop rock but with traditional instrumentation.
If you like this, maybe checkout the album Diwan 2 afterwards.
For metal - Utsu-P. He's a Vocaloid metal artist and his stuff absolutely slays.
Highlights: Pure White Poison, Sugarcoat of Love, Harakiri, Gorgon, and really anything he writes using Gumi.
Ado, especially Elf
There's a Playlist called 'Kein English' that I enjoy quite a bit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UlpZblwRyqrqQbk8G1j0B?pi=yAQH9aB_S86xN
El Coo Cooi - Voodoo Glow Skulls
Liebeslied - KMFDM
[온스테이지2.0] 이날치 - 범 내려온다(with 앰비규어스 댄스컴퍼니)
Rush Job - Sheena Ringo
Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.
Dixie - Harmonium
Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!
For fun:
El Corazón - Hard n Phirm
Honorable mention that might not technically count:
Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano
A rap about abes odyssee. Probably. Thats what the title and video say. Got some serious flow.
El Derecho de Vivir en Paz by Victor Jara
Anything by Shin Jung Hyun, but especially Beautiful Rivers and Mountains and The Sun
- INTERNETFREUNDIN by SALÒ (I'm learning German though and the lyrics aren't hard to understand)
- Cần Một Ngày by Cá Hồi Hoang
- La fin du Monde by Juniore
- Les Garçons de L'Été by Sébastien Delage
I could go on and on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBTNyJ33LWI I like rammstein's zick zack, I know they are lambasting plastic surgery but as a trans person I love enthusiastically shouting CUT IT OFF when the chorus happens in a sort of ironic way
NAIMONONEDARI (not sure how much this counts. I took Japanese in high school but can't maintain a conversation to save my life.)
Песенка (also grey area for me, I took Russian in uni but I'm far from conversational with it.)
edit: forgot to include Spanish
Wardruna - Helvegen (and the Kalandra cover) Bendik - Stille (all of the old albums before the style pivot are amazing)
Those are immediately on my mind and needed to share them in case someone else might enjoy! There is a lot more, those just popped right up without even thinking
Edit: Ekkolodd - Perler too, Asgeir - Heimförin!
These four songs are a solid intro to the bands if anyone’s interested!
I got this one. Just fun vibes. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3-zq0s5kw&desc_update=1
Otherwise some Anri songs like
Remember Summer Days
And similar City Pop (i think that's the genre)
Anda inn by Ouse Idk what it means but by god is it catchy
Судно (Борис Рыжий) - by Molchat Doma
Hjerteknuser by Kaizers Orchestra but it's a lil' cheat since I understand a little Norwegian.
Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós this one sounds so so beautiful.
Jumalan terve by Markus Krunegård when he expanded to Finnish music I was a bit surprised to learn he speaks Finnish natively. So when he then released this album I was very excited. It's Swedish styled pop but in Finnish.
Does Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano count? It's sung in Gibberish that was meant to sound like an American singing in english to non english speakers.