This exquisite album by the great master of Constantine Malouf Arab-Andalusian music from Algeria, Mohamed Tahar Fergani, featuring a soft, sophisticated and contemplative ambiance, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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These 1965 recordings of authentic Bulgarian village music recorded by Deben Bhattacharya, featuring complex rhythms and fascinating harmonies, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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This remarkable 1967 LP by Carnatic veena virtuoso Chitti Babu, featuring his dazzling, expressive and soulful vocal-like playing, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Indian Music #Carnatic #veena
This fluid and sensuous album recorded around Lake Manyara in northern Tanzania by David Fanshawe in the early 1970s, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Tanzania #music #Lake Manyara
This classic 1971 album showcasing the art of Egyptian taqâsîm melodic improvisation, with vocals, oud lute, qanun zither, ney flute and percussion, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Egypt #maqam #Arab #classical Music
This rare record by the flamboyant vocalist Rajab Ali Khan, who greatly influenced singers like Amir Khan with his lightning-fast and fiery melodic phrases, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#India #Hindustani #Khayal
This mellifluous 1974 album by the legendary Victor Uwaifo of a modern rendition of traditional Ekassa music, featuring electric guitars, brass instruments and percussion, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Nigeria
These unique 1960 recordings of the Cuna and Tucano peoples of Colombia, featuring abstract and otherworldly flutes and voices, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Colombia #Indígenas #indigenous #music
These fascinating recordings of the Touareg nomads and Sub-Saharan Africans in the Hoggar Mountains, in the Algerian Sahara, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Touareg #Touareg #Music #Hoggar #Algeria #Algérie
This LP of Javanese court gamelan, featuring enthralling, interwoven clusters of gongs, xylophones, drums, suling flute, rebab violin and eerie voices, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Indonesia #Java #Gamelan #Music
This dazzling sonic showcase of flutes and trumpets across the Islamic world—from Uganda and Morocco to Turkmenistan, Iran, and Pakistan—is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Music #Islam #Flutes #Trumpets #traditional
These amazing cassettes by the incomparable Hindustani vocalist Amir Khan, showcasing his deep, mellow baritone voice expressing intensity, sensuality, creativity and glowing majesty, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/09/indi...
These enthralling traditional and folk musics of Liberia recorded in 1954, featuring vocals, drums, horns, harps and balafons, are available for Flac and MP3 downloads on my blog:
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#Liberian music #African music #Folkways
These compelling tracks recorded in Central Anatolia, Turkey, in 1960, featuring zurna oboes, ud and saz lutes, a kaval flute and a kemence violin, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Türkiye #Anatolian #music
"My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write. I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard."
John Cage
September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992
This seminal 1958 double LP release of the music of the Dogon people of Mali, featuring riveting funeral rituals and mask dances, is available for Flac & MP3 download on my blog:
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#Mali #Malian music #Dogon people #musique malienne
This excellent compilation of the Hindustani Thumri genre, with legendary vocalists Siddheshwari Devi, Bhimsen Joshi, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Nazakat & Salamat Ali Kahn and Rasoolan Bai, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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This stunning album of traditional Thai piphat ensembles, with oboes, xylophones, gongs and drums, and solo bowed fiddles, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Thailand #Thai #piphat ensemble # music #Fine Arts Department
This album of authentic Maasai music from Kenya, featuring enthralling syncopated polyphonic call-response vocals, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
#Kenya #Maasai
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This unique panorama of Carnatic music, featuring 20th century greats like Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, M.D. Ramanathan, Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, and Madurai Mani Iyer, is available for Flac and MP3 dowload on my blog:
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#India
This superb Bärenreiter-Musicaphon anthology of traditional Igbo music from eastern Nigeria, recorded between 1963 and 1975, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Ibo #Nigerian #traditional #music
This music of the Pitjantjatjara People from the Central Australian desert during dreamtime corroboree ceremonies recorded in the 1950s, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Australia #Aboriginal #people
This essential panorama of Village Music of Bulgaria recorded in 1968, featuring stunning a cappella singing, gaida bagpipes and kaval flutes, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Bulgarian #village #music
This fantastic Mossi LP performed by the Larlé Naaba’s music group published on the legendary CDV label in Burkina-Faso in 1975, is available in Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Burkina-Faso #traditional #music #Mossi #Moré
The haunting sound of shakuhachi flutes, played by Zen Buddhist monks in Kyoto with each note representing a resonant, meditative breath, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Japan #Zen #shakuhachi flutes
This rare 45 RPM released in 1967, which exemplifies Zia Mohiuddin Dagar’s inspired deep, slow and meditative Dhrupad on the seldom-played Rudra veena, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#India #Indian music #Dhrupad
David Fanshawe’s recordings of the music of the Wagogo people from Tanzania, featuring multilayered abstract complexity, fluid polyrhythms, and telepathic collective performances, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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This heavenly Sundanese music from West Java, featuring Sulaeman’s suling flute and zither recorded in 1975, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Indonesia
This precious LP, recorded in 1962-1963, offering a rare glimpse into the fascinating music from the Persian Gulf, including stunning trance-like singing by pearl divers, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
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#Bahrain
This superb rare LP by the fiery Apala master Ayinla Owomura, featuring his deep, authoritative voice, powerful backing vocals and spellbinding, multilayered percussions, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2019/10/nige...
#Nigeria #Yoruba