Cover The World
Posted by shanoah on August 15, 2008
Today, I thought I’d feature three songs from a cd that I think is lost somewhere in my apartment. Either that or lost for good – I lost 10-20 cds on vacation a few years back.
There’s a company, Putumayo, that puts out these great collection cds of world music I like. One of those cds is a really cool one called “Cover the World” featuring various english songs covered in other languages.
You recall I was playing Toto’s Africa the other day? Here’s an African group singing it – in French:
Afrika - Tukuleur
It’s pretty cool, though I have to wonder how close the translated lyrics really are to the original. It has to have deviated somewhat, with “Mama Afrika”. I like that, though…
El lado más bestia de la vida - Albert Pla
And now a Spanish cover of Lou Reeds “Walk on the Wild Side”. The video certainly is strange. But then, it’s a strange song in English, too.
No Woman No Cry - The Nenes
And here we have a group of Japanese women singing Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”. Amazing. You may want to turn up the volume for this.
