What is the name of this "style" of Sicilian music?

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:33 PM

It is similar to Portuguese fado, Sephardi Jewish music, Andalusian, and some Tunisian music.

But what is it? A lot of younger folk musicians draw from this style. Is it some sort of revival from the past? Or is it a modern adaption of music like this?

**~~AK-47~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:42 PM

Nothing showing up.
No link to the song.

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by AK-47

Nothing showing up.
No link to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=oa9ZgMMY2XE

**Tauromachos** · 03-18-2018, 04:46 PM

From the choices you included its more similar to fado and then to Sephardic music.

The first song sounds Sephardic

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by cybernautic

From the choices you included its more similar to fado and then to Sepharic music.

The first song sounds Sephardic

I wasn't giving choices so much, as to ask the style of this music. I hear it in a lot of neo-folk collections from Sicily and it is often presented as a return to their most fundamental "folk music" roots. But what is it called?

**~~AK-47~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:52 PM

Not sure.
I'm a very non Jewy guy, for a Jew, and know little about Jewish musical culture.
If I didn't know better, I would think I was listening to a Hebrew/Arabic singer.
You really need to ask an Israeli poster, with real knowledge of Hebrew, or an Arab poster.
I'm at best a very marginal Jew, and totally illiterate in Hebrew and Yiddish.

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by AK-47

Not sure.
I'm a very non Jewy guy, for a Jew, and know little about Jewish musical culture.
If I didn't know better, I would think I was listening to a Hebrew/Arabic singer.
You really need to ask an Israeli poster, with real knowledge of Hebrew, or an Arab poster.
I'm at best a very marginal Jew, and totally illiterate in Hebrew and Yiddish.

Have you heard Portuguese Fado music? It is very similar. It is unquestionably Moorish influenced.

**~~AK-47~~** · 03-18-2018, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by Sikeliot

Have you heard Portuguese Fado music? It is very similar. It is unquestionably Moorish influenced.

Never listened to Portuguese Fado music.
Shoot me a link to it.

**Tauromachos** · 03-18-2018, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Sikeliot

I wasn't giving choices so much, as to ask the style of this music. I hear it in a lot of neo-folk collections from Sicily and it is often presented as a return to their most fundamental "folk music" roots. But what is it called?

Don't know compare to these type of Cretan songs

He was a very popular singer in Greece with Cretan origin