How many languages in your music collection?

You wouldn't believe!

Apart from a single CD of salsa music which is in Spanish, every single CD I own is in English. Which is quite bad, and I should try to broaden my collection, I think.

You see, Francis, I believe nearly everything you say/write :wink:

Since you travel quite a lot, I suppose, one could find more than only the major languages in your collection.

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English, Latin and Spanish and one in Italian

Indeed, Walter! So I'm surprised you haven't a Brasilian song.

My music collection expands from Afrikans to Russian and Chinese with a large scope.

a little over a dozen, i would guess

Okay, I know there's somewhere a cd-set with the roots of Jazz, and there's a lot of African music on it.

There certainly are a couple of songs in Russian on some compelations.

But as far as I remember, I don't have a Brasilian record at all - not THAT sure about songs.

My music collection is still back home ... but going by heart, it should have English, Dutch, Gronings (that an official language yet?), German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Albanian, Serbocroat, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, Yiddish, Finnish, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Yakutian, Tuvan, some Centralasian languages (compilation CD), Chinese and some local languages there (compilation CD thats got music in, I dunno, Miao Miao or such), Hindi, Arab, Shona plus some other African languages, Sranang ... I dunno what else ...

Oh and thats CDs, records and tapes, if you count MP3s I should also have Japanese, Urdu, Persian (or whatever it is they speak there), Italian and there's an LP with Socialist struggle songs from each EU member state so that should add up too, and come to think of it a WMA recording of a radioshow with The Internationale in two dozen versions from around the world ... so ... whatever ;-)

No Argentine tangos?

Let's see:

Lots and lots in English.
Lots in Spanish.
A lot in Italian.
Several in Portuguese (Good Lord, Walter!, I can't believe you have none)
Some in French.
More than a couple in German (Udo Lindeberg, Nina Hagen, some Opera).
A couple in Neapolitan (Pino Daniele, Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare).
At least one in Latin (Misae Brevis, by Zoltan Kodaly).
One in Arabic (Lebanese love songs).
One in Serbo-Croatian (Plesme Narodne Jugolavija something).
One in Gaelic (folk)
One in Icelandic (Björk)
One in Creole (Haitian Dancing Music)
One in Hindi.
One in Tibetan, Chinese or Sanskrit, I dunno, they're mantras.
One in Yoruban.
Plus scattered songs in Catalan, Modenese (Spanish and Italian artists) and one song in Rumanian from a recent top hits albums.

And my "Les Luthiers" records, with phony English, phony Latin, phony Italian, phony Portuguese, phone Russian, phony German, etc.

I forgot Japanese.
A few of the songs of the salsa group "Orquesta de La Luz" are in Japanese.




Yes, "Orquesta de La Luz" is a Japanese salsa group. Good enough to sell records on this side of the Pacific and to give concerts in the Caribbean.

Oh yeah I got the Icelandic version of the Sugarcubes' Birthday, absolutely beautiful, one of my all-time favourite things!


I believe that is the same album I got! Well, same title anyway. Tho I suppose there must have been plenty of collected recordings titled that. Does it have like, blue sea on the cover with some rugged mountain or some such coast? I think mine does ... its from my mum's, tho probly originally from my father's ...


Whats those?

An amazing Argentinian group (I turned our late friend cavfancier into a Luthier aficionado, I hope I can do that with you too).
They have the craziest instruments and combine refined humor with great music.

http://www.lesluthiers.org/

Nah, this one has several dancers on the countryside, with their folk costumes. As corny as the other cover, but not the same