Bailaoras Flamencas (Video Show)
"Bailaoras Flamencas (Video Show) ", a compilation about Gipsy women dancing bulerías, soleares, alegrías, fandangos and more. It has the legends like Carmen Amaya,Manuela Carrasco ... and the newcomers ....

Grands Ensembles Africains
"Grands Ensembles Africains", a compilation that revisits the West African 60s and 70s when local "big" bands invented a unique mix of salsa, funk, rock, hi-life, mbalax... It has Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou from Benin, Bembeya Jazz National from Guinea, Orchestra Baobab from Senegal and a lot more.

Maestros de Santo Domingo
"Maestros de Santo Domingo", a compilation about the musics of Santo-Domingo, a lot of bachata, a bit of meringue; a lot of guitar, a bit of accordion. It has Edilio Paredes, guitar maestro, the founding father of Bachata next to Leonardo Paniagua, José Manuel Calderón, Ramón Cordero, and more.

Native American
"Native American"", a compilation about the music of the Chreokees, Sioux, Apaches,.. It has a lot of flute, chants, hoop and war dances and even pow-wow drumming.

Vietnamese "Nhac" (Video Show)
"Vietnamese "Nhac"", a compilation about the diversity of Nhac (Music in Vietnamese). It has a lot of videos of Ca trù, Nhã nhac, Quan ho, Hát xam, Vong co, Chau van, …

Abdel Wahab Classics
" Abdel Wahab Classics", a compilation dedicated to the Great Egyptian composer, "Mosiqar El-Agyal (The Musician of the Generations) who entertained listeners from the era of King Farouk to the Free Officers’age".

Jolly Joikers
@Finnish Music Information Centre : The special nature of the yoik will become most apparent to you on trying to repeat a simple, harmonious-sounding yoik melody you have just heard. You will be astonished to find that you cannot get beyond the first few notes.

Paso Pasillos
@Youtube : This type of music originated in colonial Ecuador in the 1800's and is a fusion of the european Saravande which is a dance in triple meter and ecuadorean music such as the Yaraví. The Yaraví in Ecuador is unique from other andean regions in that it follows a 6/8 time signature and accentuates the 1st, 3rd, and 4th beats of each measure.

Contra Section (Video Show)
@Gary Shapiro : The French, who thought that they invented country dancing and who were miffed at the notion that the English should receive credit for anything, converted the name 'country dance' to French contredans, then turned around and claimed that the English term was a corruption of the French!

Sri Lankan Baila
@Bailaman : Baila today isn't the same Baila I listened to as a kid. A keyboard can never replace real instruments. To me Baila is a three, or four piece band. An acoustic guitar, a bongo drum, a Maraca/Rumba Shaker, and a Violin if you want to go all the way.

Swahili Rap
@Music of Tanzania on Wikipedia : In 1991, Tanzania hosted a hip hop competition called "Yo Rap Bonanza.” While most rappers were performing American songs word for word; Saleh Ajabry, a Tanzanian, wrote his own Swahili lyrics to a song based on Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” and won the competition

Muzică Lăutărească de Colectie
@asphalt tango production : When Dona Dumitru Siminica sang drinking songs, laments or love songs in the Bucharest garden café "La Chirigiu" ... the tables filled with guests almost as quickly as the glasses with tuica or wine and the patron's till with Lei.
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