Where can I find more music like this?

July 15, 2015 8:50 AM

I recently watched Herzog's Even Dwarfs Started Small and really loved one of the songs that was featured on the soundtrack. I can find very little about this song, other than it was reportedly recorded by Herzog in a cave. Any idea who is on the recording or where I could find music in a similar style?
posted by Otis to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Best answer: Can't identify that specific song but it sounds very much like Gypsy/Romani music. I'd check out Django Reinhardt and others from his milieu. Also, you might like the movie, Latcho Drom.
posted by CincyBlues at 10:00 AM on July 15, 2015

Best answer: I'm seeing a number of sources that ID it as being a type of folk music from the Canary Islands, where Dwarfs was filmed. I'm not finding any anthologies that focus specific on the Islands, but some of their music is included in Folkways' "Songs of Spain" playlist.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:47 PM on July 15, 2015

Response by poster: Some good leads here. Thanks for the responses.
posted by Otis at 8:28 AM on July 16, 2015