Hello, welcome to Trip and Ideal, I'm John Palacio, Lucy's on assignment.
We're here at the Travel Adventure Show in New York with Stephanie Schwab, the editor
of Music and Travel, touring the globe through sounds and scenes.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
Nice to be here.
What was the reason why you wrote for writing this book?
We are passionate about music ourselves and we always like to find new and interesting
venues to see it in and emerging scenes and there's so many scenes out there that are
just bursting with so many different influences and so it's really exciting when you travel
not just to see the basic sights but to experience the culture of the music first hand.
And in that vein, we're going to offer you your list of great places around the globe
that has a burgeoning music scene.
Exactly.
Here you go.
So number eight is...
Buenos Aires, Cumbia.
Buenos Aires is the Paris of the South.
How could you not love it?
Is there...
I'm not familiar with Cumbia.
Is there a Latin element to it?
Yeah, there's a definite Latin element to it.
It's kind of dancey and a little bit, it's becoming more digital as well.
It's not really techno but it's sort of a hybrid of that.
Yeah.
And I'm sure it's a raucous party when you go to a nightclub with Cumbia Prince.
Of course it is.
Of course it is.
Number seven is...
Beijing Experimental.
What kind of music are we referring to here?
It's kind of an amalgamation of everything.
There's a lot of digital sonic sounds to it and then there's hard guitars and then there's
interesting drums and all kinds of different things that just are meshed together.
Two and a nine.
Two and a nine.
Are they playing this in nightclubs on the street?
Where do you hear those?
In clubs and more so in clubs than on the street.
And there are festivals like the Meadie Festival is a big festival of theirs that celebrate
all kind of experimental music.
Number six.
Celtic punk in Dublin.
Celtic punk.
Celtic punk.
There's a really burgeoning scene in Dublin like in the basements and some quiet places
and then other places that people know about where it's really, it's the homegrown stuff.
You know that Celtic punk is very hot in America right now for example with bands like the
Dropkick Murphy.
Number five.
Art Rock in Australia and we're talking Melbourne, Sydney.
What's really fascinating about Art Rock is that a lot of the musicians really just sell
it themselves and they're very quiet and secretive about it.
They don't want to make a deal with the man because then they're going to lose their passion.
The cred and their passion so.
But we're trying to make it slightly mainstream without offending them.
If you wanted to see some Art Rock in Australia, could you even do it since it's such a.
You could.
I mean there are bigger festivals now.
Originally there weren't and it has become more mainstream and there's a festival called
All Tomorrow's Parties that actually has come to the United States.
But like really the homegrown artists are still keeping it to themselves.
Number four is.
Muslim hip hop in Paris.
This is very underground and they didn't.
This is an interesting one for us.
Paris you know after the riots a lot of music really started coming up and bubbling up and
people who were Muslim sort of felt really misunderstood and so that's part of this music
and bridged some understanding between that culture living in France.
Number three is.
Techno in Berlin.
Essentially Berlin Techno is almost cliche now in a way.
It's true but for a while it kind of died down and now I feel like it's having a big reemergence.
And a lot of art like one of the hometown areas that we discussed actually was from Chile originally
came to Berlin and so a lot of people came there to really grow Techno into something else.
We're on to number two.
Chansen in Moscow in St. Petersburg.
This is really cool because Chansen was originally music that came inspired from the gulags,
the prisons.
And so when we did the discography for this there's no you know actual albums you could
have gone out and buy. They were all hazmets so they were passed around so they wouldn't
get caught and you know it was all kind of on the slide so it was fascinating.
And now Chansen's been embraced by Russia in a lot of ways and they actually have an
annual Chansen like music festival in Moscow once a year.
And your number one example of great music somewhere in the world right now is.
Indiepop.
And I'm not just saying that Indiepop and Mumbai because of you know Slumdog Millionaire
but Indiepop is great in the fact that it's also a hybrid.
Indiepop got a bad rap for a while when it was in all these movies and everyone was like
it's so candy sweet and good bubblegum and all that and then it started becoming a little
bit more rock.
And so now you know there's like the Indiepop we know and then people are meshing in wild
guitars and crazy things are going on and so it's like a fascinating time for what Indiepop
is becoming now in terms of how it started out originally.
The book is Music and Travel Worldwide by Muzan Guys.
You can get more information about the book and how to buy it at muzan.com.
Stephanie Schwab, editor, thank you so much.
Very knowledgeable.
And if you want to get links to examples of all the music that Stephanie talked about
go to triponideal.com and we'll get you those links.
You can follow us at twitter.com slash triponideal and tune in next week so you can.
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