After Ramadan dinner, at home, for happy few, the day after my 25th birthday...
The GOD of Kora !

Sidiki Diabaté - home concert -  20.08.1977

This exquisite album published in 1965 by the Dagar Brothers, Nasir Moinuddin & Nasir Aminuddin Dagar, featuring their deep, timeless, sensuous telepathic singing, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/08/india-inde-dagar-brothers-nasir.html

India – Dagar Brothers – Alap - Raga Darbari Kanada

This lyrical and spirited album by a village ensemble from Bukovina in northern Romania, recorded between 1936 and 1956, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/09/romania-roumanie-ansamblul-lui-sidor.html

The Traditional Folk Music Band: II Bucovina – Electrecord EPE 02164 

Romania - Traditional folk music from Bucovina

This brilliant album from the Maihar gharana sitarist Nikhil Banerjee, featuring his extraordinary free-flowing mastery of melody and rhythm, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/09/india-inde-nikhil-banerjee-raga-soheni.html

His Master's Voice – EASD 1377

Nikhil Banerjee (Sitar)– Raga Soheni (1972)

This first LP by the great sarangi master released in 1955, featuring abstract and sensuous flights with the bowed instrument’s rich earthy sonorities, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/09/india-inde-ram-narayan-plays-sarangi.html

Ram Narayan – Plays Sarangi – Solomon's Mines – SME 4

Ram Narayan – Plays Sarangi – Raga Asavar / Raga Des – Solomon's Mines – SME 4

This excellent panorama of traditional drumming music from various Ghanaian ethnic/cultural groups, including the Akan, Ashanti, Ewe and groups from the northern regions, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/10/ghana-musica-cerimoniale-e-celebrativa.html

Eric Agyeman - I Don't Care - 1978

GHANA Musica Cerimoniale e Celebrativa / Ceremonial and Commemorative Music – Albatros – VPA 840

Ghana Ceremonial and Commemorative Music

This essential anthology of Albanian music recorded in 1965 on the Topic label, featuring a rich palette of intense, fluid, abstract and quirky sounds, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/10/folk-music-of-albania-topic-records.html

Folk Music of Albania – Topic Records – 12T154

Albanian Traditional Music Mix

This traditional Afghan music LP published in 1968 on the great Bärenreiter-Musicaphon label, featuring various lutes, bowed sarindas, zurna oboes, flutes and drums, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/10/afghanistan-afghanistan-unesco.html

Afghanistan – Unesco Collection – Bärenreiter-Musicaphon – BM 30 L 2003

Afghanistan Traditional Music Mix 1968

This fascinating Sufi brotherhood music from northeastern Morocco, featuring sung poetry carried by two spellbinding flutes weaving eerie sonorities and trance-like rhythms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/11/morocco-maroc-ferka-jilaliya-zine.html

Afro edit 01

Lewis Fisher 16

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