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I launched my MusicRepublic blog to share my passion for the great traditional and folk musics of the world, very much at risk of being lost or forgotten.
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This rare meditative 7-inch record by sitar and surbahar master Chandrashekar Naringrekar, the disciple of the illustrious Dhrupad Rudra veena maestro Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/12/indi... #Indian music

This excellent panorama of Australian Aboriginal music, with voices and drone-like didgeridoos and an otherworldly Rain Dreaming Ceremony is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/02/aust... #Indigenous #First Nations people

This rare LP by Yusufu Olatunji, the great master of Yoruba Sakara music from Nigeria, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/01/nige... #Nigeria #Yoruba #Sakara #music

This rare LP of the eminent Aïta singer Cheikha Donna on the Khaldiphone label, featuring her deep, powerful and intense voice accompanied by gasba flute and bendir drum, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/01/moro... #Maroc #Morocco

This fascinating anthology of Colombian Indigenous music, featuring abstract and otherworldly flutes, pan pipes, voices, bows, rattles, drums and maracas recorded between 1963 and 1972, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/01/colo...

These historic recordings of the spellbinding and complex polyphonic vocal music of the Babinga Bangombe and Babenzélé Pygmy peoples in the Republic of the Congo is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/02/cong... #Pygmy music

This first-rate album by Bismillah Khan (1916-2006), the great master of the double-reed shehnai, showcasing Khan’s masterful heartfelt and imaginative melodic musings, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/02/indi... #Indian #music

This excellent panorama of East African music from the early 1950s, featuring music from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Lesotho, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/02/tanz... #Hugh Tracey

This fascinating instrumental record from the three 10-inch box set of Romanian folk music on the Electrecord label, featuring alphorns, flutes, violins, cimbaloms, cobzăs and bagpipes, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/roma...

This exquisite, totally brilliant album from the incomparable Carnatic violinist Lalgudi Jayaraman on this little known album on the Russian Melodiya label, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/indi... #India #Indian #music

This ultra-rare record by Apala master Bisiriyu Atunrase, featuring his deep, raw mellifluous Yoruba music of old, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/03/nige... #Nigeria #Yoruba #Apala #music

These mesmerizing devotional ney flute recordings played by whirling dervishes in the Turkish city of Konya – where Rumi, the founder of the Mevlevi Order, lived – are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/04/turk... #Turkey #Sufi

This gorgeous Sundanese music from Java, featuring a suling flute and three zithers weaving dreamlike and sensuous musics behind the vocalists’ heartfelt poetic musings, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/04/indo... #Indonesia

This brilliant griot music by the Fulani-Peul hoddu lute master Saidou Bâ from Mauritania, which transports listeners to the inspired, fluid and sensuous African magic of old, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/04/maur...

This brilliant album from the Maihar gharana sarod master Ali Akbar Khan, featuring his prodigious virtuosity, depth, emotion and uncompromising musicianship, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/02/indi...

This outstanding album of Iranian classical and regional music recorded on the Japanese Seven Seas label in 1977 with performances by master musicians, including Dariush Talai, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/05/iran... #Iran

This inspired 1969 album – featuring Amhara/Abyssinian music including the krar lyre, the masenqo bowed lute, Ethiopian Orthodox rituals, and music by the pastoral Nuer people – is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/05/ethi...

This album by the unrivalled Hindustani vocalist Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902-1968), featuring his magnificent modulated mellifluous voice that floats effortlessly over 3 octaves, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/05/indi... #India

This particularly fiery 70s Moroccan record on Khaldiphone by the Bennasser Ou Khouya and Cheikha Hadda Ouakki singing duo, supported here by a mellifluous violin and bendir drum, is available for Flac and MP3 download: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/06/moro... #Maroc #Aïta

This forceful music from the Dan people of Ivory Coast, featuring inspired esoteric rituals and ceremonies recorded around 1980, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/06/ivor... #Côte d'Ivoire #Yacouba

This gorgeous never-reissued 1971 LP of traditional Arab vocal and instrumental maqam music released on the formidable Unesco Musical Sources collection is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/06/iraq... #Iraq #Lebanon #maqam #heritage

This electrifying 1985 album by the Nigerian king of Fuji music Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, featuring awesome fast-tempoed multilayered percussion and his majestic voice, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/07/nige... #Nigeria #Lagos

This outstanding 1968 LP by the legendary vocalist Kumar Gandharva, featuring his unique soft, lyrical, dynamic and inventive musings, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/08/indi... #Indian music #Hindustani #vocals

This LP published in 1973, presenting a terrific selection of delicate, otherworldly, and abstract recordings from bygone primal cultures, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/08/mala... #primal music #ritual #magic #possession

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This totally brilliant album of Arab-Andalusian music from Algeria, featuring Mohamed Khaznadji’s incomparable voice with a classical music orchestra, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/08/alge... #Algérie #Maghreb # الجزائر

This essential LP, showcasing Soundioulou Sissoko and Lalo Kéba Dramé, two of the greatest Senegalese kora players of the second half of the 20th century,is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/09/sene... #Senegal #Samba Diabare #Mahawa

This exquisite gamelan record from Bali, released on the legendary first Ocora series, featuring ensembles accompanying traditional shadow puppet theater, dances and drama, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/01/indo... #Indonesia

This rare 1962 record by the great Kirana Gharana vocalist Bhimsen Joshi, featuring his powerful voice, dazzling improvisation techniques, and fluid creativity, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/09/indi... #India #Hindustani

This precious 1962 LP of traditional Mossi, Bissa, Peul, Gan and Lobi music from Burkina Faso, published on the legendary early Ocora series, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/09/burk... #Burkina-Faso #Haute-Volta #African music

This compilation of historic Greek recordings of major rebetika artists from the golden age 1925-1955 is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/10/gree... #Greece #Greek #rebetiko #rebetika #traditional music #world music #Balkans #vinyl

This excellent anthology of authentic traditional Serbian vocal and instrumental music, recorded by ethnomusicologist Dragoslav Devic in the early 1970s, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/10/serb... #Serbia #kolo #folk #music

This inspired 1977 album by Hindustani vocalist Lakshmi Shankar, featuring her lyrical and gracefully melodious flights suffused with serene intensity, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/10/indi... #India #Indian music

This rare 7-inch record of the distinguished Persian violinists Parviz Yahagi and Ali Tajvidi, featuring their exquisite, totally brilliant lyrical and conceptual forms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/11/iran... #Iran #music

These seminal recordings of Senufo traditional music from northern Ivory Coast recorded in the mid-1960s, featuring musics connected to the esoteric Poro initiation, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/11/ivor... #Côte d'Ivoire

This seminal LP featuring the majestic voice of the incomparable Agra Gharana singer Ustad Faiyaz Khan (1886-1950) is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/11/indi... #India #Hindustani #Agra Gharana #Faiyaz Khan #Indian music

This remarkable album of traditional Iraqi music recorded on the Supraphon label, featuring a precious track by the great ud lute master Jamil Bachir, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/12/iraq... #Iraq #ud #rebab #Arab music

This rare record, featuring Cheikha Salha’s raw, powerful voice and unrestrained emotion exemplifying the central role cheikhates play in the rich Moroccan Aita musical tradition, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/02/moro... Maroc

This unique anthology of traditional and folk music from southern Malawi, including xylophones, lamellophones, zithers and pennywhistle flutes, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/01/mala... #Malawi #African music #Kachamba Brothers

This excellent album of traditional Egyptian music, including oboes rebab, double arghul clarinet, a wedding song, a worksongs and dance music, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/12/egyp... #Egypt #Arabic #music

This superb album of traditional Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian music om the Czech Supraphon label, featuring buzuk luth, rebab, ud, ney flute, and particularly inspired Lebanese vocals, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/12/jord...

These fascinating musics from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco recorded on the Czech Supraphon label – featuring Touareg and Gnawa musics, bagpipes, bendir frame drums, oboes – are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/01/liby...

This excellent record by the Nigerian Fuji master Kollington Ayinla, featuring his powerful voice and hypnotic polyrhythms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/01/nige... #Nigeria #Yoruba #Fuji #Music #Kollington Ayinla

This fascinating Southern Moroccan Amazigh Ahwash ritual dance music by Raiss Ahmed El Bacha, featuring frantic rhythms punctuated by flights of twirling flutes, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/02/moro... #Maroc #Morocco

This Z. M. Dagar Dhrupad sitar recording, featuring the maestro’s deep, slow, spiritual musings which create a meditative space and inspired tension of timeless universal value, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2022/02/indi... #India