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Today it will mainly be - this genre
- Thread starter Mock Turtle
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Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Beth Gibbons - Portishead.
Roads.
I wish they'd do another album.
Roads.
I wish they'd do another album.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Tatiana Shmailyuk - Jinjer.
Pisces.
Two vocalists for the price of one.
Pisces.
Two vocalists for the price of one.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Perhaps not so much a genre as category but no complaints. 
Anyway, back to normal, and I suppose I can't not post these:
Anyway, back to normal, and I suppose I can't not post these:
Another genre where we might have some sleepers - The Blues.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Mississippi John Hurt
Make me a Pallet on Your Floor
Make me a Pallet on Your Floor
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Son House
Death Letter Blues
Death Letter Blues
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T-Bone Walker
Stormy Monday
Stormy Monday
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
Robert Johnson.
Crossroads.
Crossroads.
The next genre will perhaps be even more niche for a Western audience but well worth getting into - Traditional Chinese Instrumental Music - and with some from Japan and Vietnam included too. My interest was awakened by a radio programme from 1979 called Lover's Sorrow, a mixture of Chinese music and poetry, with much dating from long ago. I actually recorded the programme on cassette at the time and I wish that it could have been released on CD, so enjoyable it was and I think it would have sold.
Later, I came across a couple of cassettes with similar music - unfortunately just described in Chinese so I know not what the title of each piece of music is - and these are equally enjoyable. One of the main instruments used is a bowed two-string fiddle called an erhu, and it is remarkable what can come from such a simple instrument. So, much is solo instruments or small combinations, but a full ensemble is especially pleasing when playing a popular piece like Dance of The Golden Snake. The piece played on the radio programme was just perfect (for me at least), and I have searched to find this version but alas to no avail - other versions are either too fast, too slow, lack the vibrancy, etc., but two are included here. So enjoy (or not).
Later, I came across a couple of cassettes with similar music - unfortunately just described in Chinese so I know not what the title of each piece of music is - and these are equally enjoyable. One of the main instruments used is a bowed two-string fiddle called an erhu, and it is remarkable what can come from such a simple instrument. So, much is solo instruments or small combinations, but a full ensemble is especially pleasing when playing a popular piece like Dance of The Golden Snake. The piece played on the radio programme was just perfect (for me at least), and I have searched to find this version but alas to no avail - other versions are either too fast, too slow, lack the vibrancy, etc., but two are included here. So enjoy (or not).
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