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El Malo | Monkey Monarchy | Starship In Worship | Bellissima | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Tokyo Cuban Boys | Walking The Balcony | Various Artists: Akasaka Rare Groove Vol. 1 | Denon | Japan's longest running Latin big band. Formed by Tadaaki Misago in September 1949. They were responsible for popularizing many Latin musical styles in Japan, by playing covers of Latin originals as well as their own Latin arrangements of Japanese pop hits. - Discogs | 0:04:27 (Pop-up) | ||
Bliki Circus | Opening Theme | Bliki Charine | Mulatta | Bliki Circus is an acoustic gypsy/punk group in Kyoto, Japan. The music is reminiscent of traditional folk music from Japan, Eastern Europe and Russia, spiced with touches of Klezmer, tango, jazz, rock, and punk, and whatever else comes up. - facebook | 0:07:01 (Pop-up) | ||
Chanchiki Tornade | Theme of Ching-Dong | 1st Tornade For Flying Around The World | Avex Trax | 0:13:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Asukasa Jinta | Dongara Gan | Ginban | KSR | Experimental performance artists/preservation band Asakusa Jinta take their name and inspiration from the Tokyo historic district where jintas (roving Japanese street bands) once filled the streets. | 0:18:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Cicala Mvta | Tokyo Jinta | Deko-Boko | Nektar | 0:26:13 (Pop-up) | |||
Nenes | Chimugukuru | Akemodoro Unai | GlobeStyle | 0:29:25 (Pop-up) | |||
Shoukichi Kina and Champloose | Shin Jidai No Nagare | Akainko | Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. / Nipponophone | 0:34:08 (Pop-up) | |||
Kikusuimaru Kawachiya | Track 2 | Kawachi Junin-Kiri | Apollon | 0:36:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Rikki | Hounen | Shimauta Trickles | Universal / Polygram | Rikki has been championed as the savior and future of Amami island music for years, ever since she started winning various Japanese folk competitions from the age of six. - Farside | 0:45:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Mayor Kaseda with three women and jyabisen accompaniment | Mochi Morai Uta | Various Artists: Folk Music of the Amami Islands, Japan | Folkways | 1954 | This disc presents the distinctive folk music of the Amami Archipelego in Japan. Amami dialects, folktales, and traditions, although recognizable to someone familiar with Japanese culture, reflect the islands’ historical separation. - Folkways | 0:49:25 (Pop-up) | |
Haruomi Hosono | Slack Key Rumba | Various Artists: Island Music - Sound Image Series Vol.1 - CBS/Sony | CBS/Sony | 0:52:26 (Pop-up) | |||
Watanabe Hamako | San Francisco Chinatown | Various Artists: Japanese Retro Hits - The Fifties, Volume 5 | Musical Ark | Hamako Watanabe was the stage name of a Japanese popular singer, who was active during the Shōwa period of Japan, before, during and after World War II. - Wiki | 0:55:14 (Pop-up) | ||
Remon Nakanishi | Hohai Bushi | Hinano Lezuto | DOYASA! Records | Remon Nakanishi is one of the brightest stars of Japan's minyo and Bon Odori music scene, especially known as a singer of Goshu Ondo, which is the ballad songs sung at Bon Odori (summer festivals where people dance) around Kansai area. - bandcamp | * | 0:58:51 (Pop-up) | |
Huun - Huur - Tu, Carmen Rizzo & Dhani Harrison | Song Of The Caravan Riders | Dreamers In the Field | Dark Horse Records / BMG | * | 1:06:17 (Pop-up) | ||
Violons Barbares | Old Man's Stories | Monsters and Fantastic Creatures | Violons Barbares | The trio is composed of two fiddle players and a percussionist. From the steppe country of Mongolia will Dandarvaanchig Enkhjargal, who sings overtone singing and playing Morin Khoor. - home page | * | 1:11:23 (Pop-up) | |
Auster Loo Collective | Kali | Auster Loo Collective | Igloo Records | Auster Loo Collective is bringing a breath of fresh air into Belgium's acoustic music scene. - LD | * | 1:14:24 (Pop-up) | |
Selda Bağcan | İnce İnce Bir Kar Yağar | 40 Yılın 40 Şarkısı Vol.2 | Majör | 1:22:59 (Pop-up) | |||
The Orient Express | Layla | The Orient Express | Mainstream | New reissue | * | 1:26:22 (Pop-up) | |
Cem Karaca, Dervisan | Tamirci Çırağı | Tamirci Çırağı | Yavuz Plak | 1:30:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Kavita Shah | Chaki Ben (feat. Maalem Hassan Benjaafar) | Cape Verdean Blues | Folkalist | Kavita Shah is a vocalist and composer from New York, NY. She has been hailed by NPR for possessing an “amazing dexterity with musical languages” - Wikipedia | * | 1:36:53 (Pop-up) | |
Ann O' aro | Saple | Bleu | Buda Musique | Anne-Gaëlle Hoarau, best known by her stage name Ann O'aro, is a musician and writer from Réunion. She is noted for her contribution to contemporary fonnkèr, a Réunionese genre of oral poetry. - Wiki | * | 1:40:03 (Pop-up) | |
Danyèl Waro | Batarsite | Batarsite | Piros | 1:46:20 (Pop-up) | |||
Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen | Springleik | Den Lyse Dag | Heilo | Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen has in a short time become one of the most sought-after young folk musicians in Norway. - bandcamp | * | 1:55:39 (Pop-up) | |
Kristo Rodzevski | Stomni | Red Earth | Defkaz Records | Black Earth has eleven traditional Macedonian songs infused with African aesthetics, including Gnawa undertones, Congo rumba, and African field recordings. - defkaz | 1:56:51 (Pop-up) |
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