Field recordings of Italian traditional music from throughout Italy, form north to south and the islands. Recorded by well known music scholars.

Italian field recordings vol.2, is mainly of storytelling traditions and folklore entertainment.

Varioius styles of Italian folk tunes.

Music from Galicia in Spain, featuring gaita (bagpipes) and polyphonic chorus.

Live recording from the Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer gypsy festival, attracting gypsies from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and many other countries. Mainly Spanish and French gypsy music.

Sacred songs and instrumentals played on mainly guitar and violin.

Folk music from Northern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, with Albanian, Slav and Turkish influences, mainly performed on lira and clarinet.

Music from the Dodecanese Islands once possessed by the Ottoman Empire of Turkey then Italy and returned to Greece in 1917. Songs and dances from five islands including Rhodes.

The folk music from Crete featuring the main traditional instrument, the lira. Mostly dance tunes.

The folk songs of Iceland. Anna Thorhallsdottir sings and plays the langspil , a bowed stringed instrument.

A CD of various bagpipe music from Europe, including the uillean pipe from Ireland, gaita from Galicia, the highland pipe from Scotland.

Ewan Macoll and Peggy Seeger sing folk and anti-Vietnam war tunes.

The music from various ethnic grouips from the former Yugoslavia. Typical folk tunes from Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia.

The music of Cyprus, from the north and east, both Greek and Turkish.

Hana Roth sings Hebrew songs with eastern European influences and Yiddish songs which date back to the creation of Israel in 1948. Recorded in Israel.

Fantastic CD recorded by Wolf Dietrich in the 1960s and 70s. Traditional songs of Turkey, Islamic prayers, dance tunes, brass bands, performances on Turkish traditional instruments saz, ney and others.

Kafiristan is a mountainous area in the far north of Pakistan. The history of the Kafirs is somewhat obscure but they are believed to be descendants of the armies of Alexander the Great (B.C.327), and therefore Greek cultural elements are present in Kafiristan, including the music.

Recorded in the fort city of Gwalior, situated in Madhya Pradesh around 320 km from Delhi. Rare recordings of traditional folk songs, chants and Ramayana stories, with some intoxicating percussion.

Southern Indian Tamil music with Hindu influences, some in a brass band style.

Traditional Hindu songs of Nepal. Mostly male accappela, some accompanied by the small barrel drum, madal. Wild, rough and ready.

Fascinating CD featuring the Vietnamese zither, the one stringed dan bau, a jaw's harp and folk tunes. Performers include Chan Kwanhai and Wan Montoi.

Sundanese (West Javanese) gamelan music, featuring kecapi (zither) and other instruments in a small gamelan ensemble.

The Balinese form of wayang kulit (shadow puppet theatre) gamelan.

Recorded in Queensland, songs for ceremonies and dances and featuring the didgeridoo.

A live recording of a pan African music festival held in Algeria in 1969. Artists from 19 African countries participated. Volume 1 features songs and performances from Mali, Niger, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Liberia, Congo, Chad, Cameroon and Sudan.

Volume 2 of the 1969 Pan African music festival in Algeria features artists from Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.

Music from the region of Marrakesh stretching to southeast Sahara. Instruments include the gimbri and the songs and dances of the Atlas such as ahidus.

The famous royal drummers plus mbira (thumb piano) and a kora (harp) like instrument, called the inanga.

Recorded by Radio Mali in the 1960s. Bambara griot performances.

The African influenced music of Bahia, Brazil. Instruments include birimbau and batucada.