Here's some 2000s-ass Taiwanese mandopop (I believe?) I found while looking up the final boss for that final Sonic Frontiers update.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3wsM60E4pU
Eventually I‘ll get to my big list, and this isn’t the song I want, but I can't find it, and this is close - basically just very interesting to hear a chinese singer (lin siang yuen) do essentially arabic-influenced exotica.
The song I actually want is track A1 on this album btw
The track listing says it's an "Indian song" I think
@exodus Is this it?
I also found this, which looks to be the original. It's the theme song of the movie Awaara.
If the subtitles of this video are a direct translation of the original, then it looks like the lyrics of Lin Siang Yuen‘s version are roughly the same, about being a wanderer, being alone, feeling no sorrow, bearing pain in one’s heart, yet still singing a happy song, etc.
I guess this is another one of those massively influential movies that get referenced in Chinese stuff all the time, but which I knew nothing about. Another example is The Bridge. The Chinese version of its theme song Bella Ciao shows up in all sorts of stuff:
there's some tribal/folk/groovy filipino stuff that really rocks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZ4-b5bplQ&pp=ygUKcGluaWtwaWthbg%3D%3D
i don't know if it counts since he's based in london, but i really really like triad god:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0717tnBzEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obxxhj4GMQU&pp=ygUJdHJpYWQgZ29k
@saddleblasters yep that's it! Thanks! I guess it is an Indian song after all.
