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Featuring guqin, dizi, guzheng, pipa, and other traditional instruments of China.

Intensely intelligent, immensely moving, jazz performances.

Ambient, impressionistic, soundscape, moody, dreamy, trance, color-rich, altered-states-of-consciousness-inducing...

Milt Jackson (vibes), John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (acoustic bass), Connie Kay (drums)

Multicultural, pancultural, syncretic, eclectic, folkloric, traditional, experimental, avant-garde, old-timey, multigrenre, multiculti, and multikulti musical adventures from all times, places, and...

Mostly Turkish and Tunisian, although I'm looking for oud music that I like from anywhere and everywhere!

Compilation of the best ney (end-blown, reed flute) music I've found so far. It's not popping up like roses in June, but there's just enough ney music on the web to keep me entranced .... and even...

Percussion, particularly the djembe, from countries of West Africa (Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and the Senegambia region).

Non-traditional, new-agey (but not terribly so), acoustic guitar pieces derived from flamenco and Spanish melodies.

Flamenco song, dance, and guitar...

I am unable, at the moment, to muster the multiplicity of brains required to explain this music. I urge you to listen, despite the fact that I've given you know shiny lure, no trail of blood in...

Guitarists and singers from Mali, singing in that arab-tinged, nasal, minor tonality music of the desert and plain.

"Greek blues," or the old roots music of the Greek underground (subculture) during certain historical periods.

Jazz heavily steeped in Afrocuban sensibilities, culture, tradition, and joy. Not synonymous with "Latin jazz," this is a special musical river. You'll need your paddles from time to time; keep...

Flutes from Turkiye, Japan, India, China, the Andean lands, and many other countries. Flutes include: Ney, Bansuri, Shakuhachi, and Panflute (Panpipes).

Features sax greats like Paul Desmond and Stan Getz, among many others.