What song are you listening to right now? 3

[Linguaphile]

https://youtu.be/AwfbtEUQzwY

The song is based on an old Finnish lullaby.

Thanks for posting that one! What's funny is that even though it's the "standard Finnish folk melody" (or what I will always think of as "Veljo Tormis's Laulusild melody", LOL), for some reason what it also reminds me of is the soundtrack to the Georgian-Estonian movie Mandariinid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_det5NyEP4
and while the music for that soundtrack was written by a Georgian composer and I don't know whether or not he had any intention of making it sound Estonian at all or purely Georgian (and anyway that's not Finnish), if he did I think he did it brilliantly, because it sounds Georgian but also sounds like it could (almost) work as a melody for either Estonian or Finnish folksongs too. (And if he didn't, well, then never mind. But they go nicely together.)

[Naava]

Thanks for posting that one! What's funny is that even though it's the "standard Finnish folk melody" (or what I will always think of as "Veljo Tormis's Laulusild melody", LOL), for some reason what it also reminds me of is the soundtrack to the Georgian-Estonian movie Mandariinid:
[...]
and while the music for that soundtrack was written by a Georgian composer and I don't know whether or not he had any intention of making it sound Estonian at all or purely Georgian (and anyway that's not Finnish), if he did I think he did it brilliantly, because it sounds Georgian but also sounds like it could (almost) work as a melody for either Estonian or Finnish folksongs too. (And if he didn't, well, then never mind. But they go nicely together.)

Wow, that does sound very familiar! Like these guys could at any time start singing along with it:
https://youtu.be/XRdCsEVFd4I

By the way, this reminded me of the first song in Frozen:
https://youtu.be/1TXc2JbCjmw
The moment I heard the first notes of the men's song (0:50), I knew I had heard it before. That didn't make any sense of course because I was quite sure the song had been composed for the movie, but it was so familiar I couldn't help but wonder how I could've managed to hear it before it had been made!

But then, suddenly, I realised it: it's the theme song of a Finnish cooking show from the 1970s-1990s.
https://youtu.be/572VhrmihwA
The song is apparently called "Finnish Whistler" and it was made by Roger Whittaker, a British singer-songwriter and musician.

I know the rest of the songs do not match, but I can't be the only one who can hear the similarity, right?

[mōdgethanc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_GXfCJ556k

Faye Wong is one of my favourite artists these days - I've listened to her about 3000 times over the past couple of years - and this song is so beautiful. It was recorded in the 90s and almost forgotten until it was reissued in 2015, so I'm so glad I found it. Although her first language is Mandarin the lyrics are in Cantonese.

[h34]

https://youtu.be/_eZxqZThHhM
Шенже / Šenže ("Duck") by Вастома / Vastoma ("meeting, gathering") from Mordovia

[h34]

https://youtu.be/-DUUvoNYxqM
Птичка невеличка, a Ukrainian song performed by the band Post Dukes from the Republic of Udmurtia

[mōdgethanc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_9Lw_6UrU

Don't even know how I found this but I saw one guy commenting on this saying he teaches Latin and that the grammar is bad (maybe it is, idk) and that her pronunciation is bad. I feel like he was being a dickhead because given how awfully Latin words get butchered in English, it's really not that bad. She pronounces <v> as /v/ and not /w/ but clearly was trying to get the sound of the language right. This dude complained she had aspirated stops instead of unaspirated. Seriously bro? That's such a nitpick.

[Linguaphile]

This song is listed as by Henry Kaiser and David Lindley; the singer is Iŋgor Ántte Áilu Gaup. Years ago I heard a different version of this song (also sung by Áilu Gaup) on television, with the same lyrics and joiking but without the music (or maybe it had different, less noticeable music; mostly what I remember is the voice). I liked the other version better, but this is the only version I've been able to find since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x10zP_juLqI

I've found the one from that tv show. It was an episode of Nature from 1990 or 1991 called "Scandinavia: Land of the Midnight Sun" (and also in a 1991 one in Norwegian called "Skandinavien: Nordkalotten"), the songs are called "Arctic Call" and "Land of the Midnight Sun" (music by Steve Marshall, joiking by Iŋgor Ántte Áilu Gaup). The music can be found as tracks #4 and #5 here.

[h34]

https://youtu.be/z45xGGTo3J0

[Naava]

https://youtu.be/OvpNeZVWkhU
Lyrics:

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Kuuletko
Minun sanojani kuuletko
Ja tunnetko
Miten sydän vapisee

Kaipaatko
Vielä syliäni kaipaatko
Ja tahdotko
Sinne minne minä meen

Sinut minä haluan vaan
Siihen saakka kun hiekaksi muututaan
Ja kauneus katoaa pois
Sinusta mä elämän saan
Ilman lempeä täällä ei jaksaiskaan
Ja roudassa yöni mun ois
Ja tyhjinä kolisisivat
Päiväni ilman sinua

Katsotko
Vielä minua sä katsotko
Näin roihuten
Niin kuin minä sinua

Uskotko
Minun sanojani uskotko
Kun kerron sen
Miten kaipaan sinua

Sinut minä haluan vaan
Siihen saakka kun hiekaksi muututaan
Ja kauneus katoaa pois
Sinusta mä elämän saan
Ilman lempeä täällä ei jaksaiskaan
Ja roudassa yöni mun ois
Ja tyhjinä kolisisivat
Päiväni ilman sinua

Sinut minä haluan vaan
Siihen saakka kun hiekaksi muututaan
Ja kauneus katoaa pois
Sinusta mä elämän saan
Ilman lempeä täällä ei jaksaiskaan
Ja roudassa yöni mun ois
Ja tyhjinä kolisisivat
Päiväni ilman sinua

Translation:

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Can you hear
Can you hear my words
And can you feel
How the heart trembles

Do you miss
Do you still miss my embrace
And do you wish
to go where I go

You're the one I want
Until the moment we turn into sand
And the beauty disappears
You give me life
Nobody has enough strenght to carry on here without love
And my nights would be frozen soil
And my days without you
Would clatter of emptiness

Do you look
Do you still look at me
With fire
The same way I look at you

Do you believe
Do you believe my words
When I tell you
How much I miss you

You're the one I want
Until the moment we turn into sand
And the beauty disappears
You give me life
Nobody has enough strenght to carry on here without love
And my nights would be frozen soil
And my days without you
Would clatter of emptiness

You're the one I want
Until the moment we turn into sand
And the beauty disappears
You give me life
Nobody has enough strenght to carry on here without love
And my nights would be frozen soil
And my days without you
Would clatter of emptiness

[md0]

I recently caved in and got a Spotify. I found a lot of good new-to-me music, but this is definitely among the most played

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSSjxAu44Q

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Du starrst seit Tagen an die Decke
wie im Verließ an einer Kette
Tränen tropfen auf die Wangen
du fühlst dich einsam und gefangen

Zweifel pumpen durch die Venen
erzählen dir du bist das Problem
doch du bist klug, du bist wild
du bist stark und wunderschön

Zeit zu kämpfen deine Ängste fressen dich sonst auf
hol den großen Mut und deine Kriegsbemalung raus
Denn der Mensch da im Spiegel der kann so viel erreichen

Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Du warst viel zu lange still
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Komm mit Feuer, Sirenen und Krachen
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
zeig dem Leben was du willst
Denn dein Wille ist ne Waffe
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!

Wenn du nicht glaubst, dass du es drauf hast
dann treffen Worte wie ein Faustschlag
und es tut weh, scheiße weh, selbst wenn du in Deckung gehst

Schluss mit frustig pack mal wieder deinen Kämpfer aus
alle Mittelfinger hoch, komm geh da einfach raus
nein, du brauchst keine Rüstung, denn du bist unverwundbar

Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Du warst viel zu lange still
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Komm mit Feuer, Sirenen und Krachen
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
zeig dem Leben was du willst
Denn dein Wille ist ne Waffe
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!

In den Sekunden vor dem Sturm
wird nochmal tief Luft geholt
Dein Vertrauen bis zum Anschlag,
weil du das was du willst nur selbst in der Hand hast

Na komm schon na komm schon, na komm schon, na komm schon

Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Lass sie deinen Schlachtruf hören
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
Komm mit Feuer, Sirenen und Krachen
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!
Auf sie mit Gebrüll!
zeig dem Leben was du willst
Denn dein Wille ist ne Waffe
Attacke! Attacke! Attacke!

I'm already working on translating lyrics to many of her songs to Greek.

[OiJoua]

This is a a clip of religious (Christian evangelical?) music in one of the Banda languages, but I'm not sure which one yet. It's apparently from the Central African Republic and called "Tolotche"; the group is called "Réveil de l'orient," and the producer is Aboubakar Hadji:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tCj1yaKXDU

Here's another video of it, but here it says it is called Kouloukou mou zin Nzapa by a group called Kôdrô and produced by Believe Music. Their album came out in 2010, before this Tolotché video. Maybe the information for the Tolotché video is about the dance group or creator who made the video, using Kôdrô's music. Anyway, it is Christian evangelical music sung in Sängö which is the main and official language of Central African Republic. The word Nzapa means "God".
If you go to the Kôdrô-Topic Youtube page, this group has three albums. This particular song is from volume 3 which is mostly in French. The first two volumes have more songs in Sängö. They are all Christian songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOeiLogH9U

[Osias]

https://youtu.be/dFmW6L8UoL8

[Linguaphile]

Mari Kalkun - Lend Põhjataeva All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUa4PsZGR6U

[Antea]

https://youtu.be/JZC4RHVdiWA?si=iJp4_p_QR0onJvS1

[Tim Julius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYlFuWEuKI