Share your favourite non-English songs!

[XMechanik]

"Kultivator var en svensk musikgrupp som var verksam i Linköping 1978–1980"

 

[El_Duderino]

 

[Waxx]

This is the Beligan-Congolese acapella quintet "Zap Mama" in it's original form. This is a song from 1991, full acapella sang (they did this live also) from their first album "Zap Mama" in Belgium and elsewhere known as "Adventures in Afropea" (Crammed Disk/Lukaka Pop). The music is based on traditional acapella music from Congo and the rest of Africa. They sing in a mixture of Congolese languages, french and english.

 

[whereisbrian]

Magma, Dondaï
(but subtitled To An Eternal Love)

 

[Karmacoma]

This is the Beligan-Congolese acapella quintet "Zap Mama" in it's original form. This is a song from 1991, full acapella sang (they did this live also) from their first album "Zap Mama" in Belgium and elsewhere known as "Adventures in Afropea" (Crammed Disk/Lukaka Pop). The music is based on traditional acapella music from Congo and the rest of Africa. They sing in a mixture of Congolese languages, french and english.

Souvenirs... This was the best one of the album for me

 

[Ibofobi]

 

[Soandso]

"Qongqothwane" is a Xosha click song. In English the theme goes: "The doctor of the road is the beetle...He climbed past this way. They say it is the beetle…Oh! It is the beetle. The doctor of the road is the beetle."

 

[Zedly]

A little bit different, but definitely not English!

 

[muza_1]

 

[Waxx]

This is a Belgian new wave classic, TC Matic in a typical belgian song, where several languages are mixed like a lot of Belgians do...

 

[Waxx]

And while we are in Belgian new wave, Arbeit Adelt (in Dutch) with the infamous Marcel Vantilt...

 

[BeeKay]

Finest German 80s stuff.
Ulla Meinecke "Die Tänzerin" (the dancer)

 

[Soandso]

"NTYILO-NTYILO" is a bird and the English essence of the song is : "I heard a sound from the bush … I looked up, I drew near. The voice said: "There is trouble in the land." The melody was beautiful."

 

[Soandso]

"QHUDE" is a rooster and the English essence of this song is "Wake up daughter-in-law. It is morning, oh Mother!… Awake, there is no water!…"

 

[Mort]

 

[billybaldwin]

 

[billybaldwin]

 

[Soandso]

INTO YAM song basically goes "I love my man, though he drinks and gets drunk … He works for me … Oh keep quiet mother!…."

 

[El_Duderino]

 

[Soandso]

Hugh Masakela recorded THANAYI whose lyrics' encompass "What can the matter be?… If you have achieved nothing on earth, you are better off dead? No, child no.…I can imagine my child, playing at being grown-up.…"