World music

Discussion thread for music from all over the world.  Ideally the thread should have an even distribution of music from various regions according to musical variety rather than language or borders.  I'll start with some:

Japan:

Algeria:

Putumayo presents is a good resource to get started on different quality stuff...

Amazing, big thanks

is this thread about world music or about world music?

Angola!

  On 7/23/2019 at 4:37 AM, Tim_J said:

is this thread about world music or about world music?

It's about world music not "world music"

Great link for finding music from any country and any decade:

http://radiooooo.com/

Amazing: Russia

And even better:

One of my friends was running a podcast for a while about music from around the world.

https://player.fm/series/scarlos-international-house-of-music/scarlo-wapittaluigis-international-house-of-music-episode-50-the-best-world-radio-hour-world-music-from-the-golden-era-of-music-fela-kuti-nooshafarin-serge-gainsbourg-augustus-pablo-van-shipley-sunburst-angelo-noce-santoro-howard-nishioka

A lot of it showcases western style music done in different cultures. It's worth a listen.

Everything in here is really good.  People from non-English speaking places, come share your music pls.  Also everyone please post the regions of your posts, ty

Russian:

^that first one is amazing, exactly what I was hoping for

Japanese (the intro vignette is the best part of the whole track, an absolute must listen)

love me some stuff from Peru, this band Los Shapis is one of my favorite things ever:

Japanese:

I posted this on the harp music thread but it kinda belongs here too

  On 6/13/2019 at 12:40 PM, MIXL2 said:

the music from the border between Colombia and Venezuela features the harp plenty.. I dunno how it is now but back when I lived there this stuff would play everywhere all the time.. radio, on clubs etc.. was p surreal thinking back on it now

(edit: take a listen to 1:30)

 

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a couple more:

^hell yeah, that's the shit

modern brazilian music (nsfw album art)

  On 7/26/2019 at 4:06 AM, Zeffolia said:

^that first one is amazing, exactly what I was hoping for

make sure you listen to that compilation...

this is from Senegal so probably I already posted it in the Africa thread...

here's some Huayno from Peru, it's beautiful!!!

All music that we know of has been made in the world. On Earth. It's all World Music. Open your eyes people. 

this is a modern take on african/middle eastern music, they're from tel aviv: