You can name anything & many of the recorded and saved global recordings you may like, impressed and interested. Religious ceremonies, weird folklore + traditional music, marches etc. from all around the world, ancient and contemporary musical forms from anteriors and posteriors generations of mankind.
Ocora recommendations here:
http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3808
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings have an extensive catalogue. Recommend checking it out. They also got an interesting feed on SoundCloud.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/ (http://www.folkways.si.edu/)
https://soundcloud.com/smithsonian-folkways (https://soundcloud.com/smithsonian-folkways)
Siberian/Tuvan throat singing is a unique sound - http://alashensemble.com/about_tts.htm - an extremely pleasant vocal sound to my ears.
http://www.fontimusicali.com/fontiCatalogue.php
tons of goodens.
And of course Alan Lomax online archive with +17k recordings:
http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
I have a couple handfulls of these guys releases
http://www.fieldrecorder.com/docs/store.htm
http://www.document-records.com/
couple of good japanese albums
Takahashi Chikuzan - Tsugaru-Shamisen
music of okinawa-music of japanese people
Quote from: Henrik III on September 14, 2013, 08:20:23 AM
And of course Alan Lomax online archive with +17k recordings:
http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp
nice,
too bad the hobart smith one with his sister is not available.
I didnt know about that site but the youtube channel is good 2.
My favorite "ethnic" or "world" music listen is Codona, especially their self-titled debut. It's a sitarist/tabla-ist (Indian) fused with an African trumpeter and a Brazilian percussionist. I find it very unique, yet accessible. Nice simple melodies and lots of cool drone-type accompaniment.