Above the Treetops I Can See More Music

December 10, 2018 1:23 PM

I am looking for ghostly, otherworldly, cross cultural music/songs similar to Above the Treetops. I want to use additional music with ATT in a lengthly slideshow presentation.
posted by Xurando to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Best answer: You might like Jeremy Dutcher's piece "Mehcinut." Official audio here; much longer live version here. Dutcher is a classically trained opera singer and musicologist who composed this piece that combines Western opera and old wax cylinder recordings of traditional Maliseet songs (he is a Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) member of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick). The live version I linked to is from the Polaris Prize broadcast--he won the 2018 Polaris for the album this song is from.

This is not at all the kind of music I normally listen to, and in fact I often find the Polaris Prize winners a little too inaccessible, but I've been listening to this constantly since hearing it on the CBC. It's otherworldly and gorgeous, a really powerful piece.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:45 PM on December 10, 2018 [1 favorite]

Best answer: I got some strong Dead Can Dance vibes from your link.
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:38 PM on December 10, 2018

Best answer: There are a lot of potential tracks in David Bridie's oeuvre. eg: Cockatoo, Talk mister nation, Tatabai (with George Telek). Check out his mid 1980s stuff too when he was working a lot with musicians and influences from West Papua.
posted by Thella at 4:32 PM on December 10, 2018

Selwa This whole album is hypnotic. Cholyan Dohlma, a Tibetan nun and Steve Tibbets. The clip I included makes me hallucinate.
posted by effluvia at 8:40 PM on December 10, 2018

Bill Laswell: Thunupa, Ethiopia
DJ Cheb I Sabbah: Tum Bin Shyam
Mystic Rhythms Band: Gesso's Guitar Song
Stefano Saletti & Piccola Banda Ikona: Tagama
Michalis Koumbios: Astradeni
Can: Last Night Sleep
Musafir: Badila
Amir Yaghmai & The Gaslamp Killer: Nissim
posted by heatvision at 3:39 AM on December 11, 2018

I just listened to Tokugawa Aureole from the Yeskim album A Musical Voyage to Japan. It made me come back to this question, long abandoned, to add it to this list for future use. It sounds like this.
posted by irisclara at 4:14 PM on October 26, 2019