Pick a country, any country...
http://www.folkways.si.edu/folkways-recordings/smithsonian
kek i've been thinking about making a thread like this for weeks now.
Really loving gamelan recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLrNKTmCVpA
Also the shanai which sounds so beautiful and proud. India really was onto something with their love of drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPW--T34ELQ
>>70590270
>gamelan
Babbies first trad
Caribbean all the way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_music_genres
>>70590275
Really? I've been listening to traditional folk for 3 years now but only recently decided to listen to it.
Some european folk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Qn_9LAUb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbaHbMjXtZ8
also roza eskenazi but I couldn't find any of her good songs on youtube.
more asian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AZN_T6XKvQ
Anybody play any traditional folk instruments?
>Une Anthologie Des Musiques Traditionnelles
this 10-CD compilation is GOAT if you want to explore Trad. French Folk
https://clyp.it/x3okwijp
https://clyp.it/uspivh3k
https://clyp.it/32qjqyuj
https://youtu.be/_SQkFzPYeEQ
>>70590690
Do they sing about baguettes, croissants, garlic and red wine?
>>70590720
it's a themed comp indeed!
ie. CD#8 is about moustaches
>>70590275
>popular
>bad
>tfw the only thing you disagree with Trump on is the slashing of arts and culture funding
Hope the Smithsonian makes it out okay
Is Bob Dylan the pinnacle of folk music?
>>70593118
>folk-rock
>no one on /mu/ cares about music not made in the US or UK except Weaboos
I love the sound of the mbira (called thumb piano, kalimba or sanza in other places) https://youtu.be/tKbfUEhjuH4
somehow related:
https://youtu.be/5hF2Hstvrfc
(about a band from Zimbabwe who used an electrified mbira)
Peru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4pXUUiSb4