"Fa Cé-La," which is, I believe, French.

If it is, I have no idea what it might mean. It does look a bit like "le texto", i.e., French text messaging.

"Fa Cé-La,"

I think those are just sung notes, as in the "Doe a Deer" song from Sound of Music.

And a totally excellent song. Off a totally excellent album.

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie.

French text messaging.

David has to be right, because that song dates back to 1979.

My dear Buffistarawkers! My son has a HS World Cultures teacher that is said to be a most knowledgeable fellow when it comes to independent, and shall we say obscure, music. He really is a cool person although his main purposes in life seem to be split evenly among torturing high school students, music, and online video game wars.

He has assigned Brendon the following project. Compile 10 musical selections from 10 different European artists. (They are doing Europe this term) Stump the teacher obscure is a plus. Three (3) different genres, yes, he used the word genre. He wrote on the board No Spice Girls and No Emo, including a stick figure of a teary person with knife. (he is a funny guy) At least 3 countries of origin. At least three selections in foreign language. There are other aspects to the project as well, flash animation and so forth that Brendon has under control.

Thing is that Brendon only knows that Rap exists in music. Well, he knows I listen to other music. He has gone so far in his desperation to ask his mother for help. (not so easy for a teen)

So, Help! (so much easier to ask for help when you get to my age)

Any suggestions would be appreciated. He will follow up with the research. He will have to have video or animation to accompany the music with the who what where when how aspects. And yes, this is what the kids in honors HS are doing these days.

A friend into folk sent me an album by a Swedish group which uses "the synthesizer of the Middle Ages" aka the hurdy gurdy, which sounds vaguely Irish and very cool. I'll be glad to put a couple of tracks that I like the most up on Buffistarawk2. They're called Hurdy Gurdy and the album is Prototyp. As far from Europop as you can get and stay on the same continent.

SA included a lovely Europop song from Italy about Vespas in her last year's Frankenmix.

I'm sure I can up with some obscure Francophone stuff--including places like New Caledonia which is part of France. Let me look through my iTunes. I'll make sure to include French rap!

Darn, I didn't read the last part about having video to go with it.

Errr.... How obscure do you want to go? There was a great art-punk band from Switzerland called Kleenex, later renamed Liliput, in the late 70s - early 80s. [link]

In the middle of the bio is a link to an mp3 of one of their songs, "Ain't You".

t edit Oh, I missed the video bit as well....

Oh, I assumed they had to be current artists.

And I thought the video was part of what he would be making to give context, not video of the tracks.

Here's a (very low-budget) video of Liliput that accompanies one of their best tunes, "Die Matrosen". Great whistle-rock! [link]