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I recently went to Fiji for a friend's wedding and thoroughly loved the amount of live music. There was everywhere we ran.
I have a theory that the average tempo of cultural music maps pretty closely with the average walking speed.
A lot of the songs that sound to my ears like traditional songs Are very vocal heavy and have simple arrangements with Guitar ukuleles and bass. They often sound similar to hymns that I grew up listening to.
it wasn't always easy to learn the name of a particular song that I was hearing, since most of this was live music and apps like Shazam struggled. Music streaming surface services also seem to really struggle with their content libraries of traditional music, which is unfortunate.
That said… Some of the songs I heard a lot while travelling around are:
- Isa Lei - traditional farewell song. Indicative of a lot of small group live music we heard.
- Artist George "Fiji" Veikoso. Songs like Morning Ride, and Come on over.
- Band VT1S. Popular music. Local group doing some pretty polished R&B.
- Group Vinaka. As far as I can tell this group specialise in recording traditional music. Easier to find on streaming services.
- Band Nasio Domini. R&B group based in Suva.
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tags: [fiji, music, fijian-music]
title:
date:
I recently went to Fiji for a friend's wedding and thoroughly loved the amount of live music. There was everywhere we ran.
I have a theory that the average tempo of cultural music maps pretty closely with the average walking speed.
A lot of the songs that sound to my ears like traditional songs Are very vocal heavy and have simple arrangements with Guitar ukuleles and bass. They often sound similar to hymns that I grew up listening to.
it wasn't always easy to learn the name of a particular song that I was hearing, since most of this was live music and apps like Shazam struggled. Music streaming surface services also seem to really struggle with their content libraries of traditional music, which is unfortunate.
That said… Some of the songs I heard a lot while travelling around are: