Sanjah

Sanjah - 無線 / 伊豆 (2006, Japan)
avant-folk / free improvisation

Master Musicians of Ikuta-Ryu

Master Musicians of Ikuta-Ryu - Japanese Koto Orchestra (1967, Japan)
japanese classical music / soukyoku
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Mehmet Koç

Mehmet Koç - Ses Verin Sesime Dağlar (2002, Turkey)
turkish folk
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Kazuki Tomokawa

Kazuki Tomokawa - Muzan no Bi / Beauty Without Mercy (1986, Japan)
folk / singer-songwriter

Kazuki Tomokawa - Nikusei (1976)
avant folk

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Probably my favourite singer-songwriter ever. Has been making consistently great music for 40+ years (!).

Musique Persane

Various Artists - Musique Persane (1971, Iran)
Persian classical music
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Extra Life

Extra Life - Secular Works (USA, 2008)
math rock / experimental / medieval music
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Best album I've heard in ages. The medieval influence makes it really special and unique.

Monâjât Yulchieva

Monâjât Yulchieva - Ferghana Maqam (1994, Uzbekistan)
shashmaqam / uzbek music
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Salamat Sadikova

Salamat Sadikova - The Voice of Kyrgyzstan (2002, Kyrgyzstan)
kyrgyz music
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Valentin Clastrier

Valentin Clastrier - Heresie (1991, France)
avant-folk / french folk / avant-jazz

Jana Kirschner

Jana Kirschner - Moruša: Čierna (2014, Slovakia)
art pop / chamber folk
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Function

Function - The Secret Miracle Fountain (2006, Australia)
ambient pop / experimental
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Urna Chahar-Tugchi

Urna Chahar-Tugchi - Tal Nutag (1995, China)
Mongolian music

Jamar (2000)

Amilal (2005)

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The Ex & Brass Unbound

The Ex & Brass Unbound - Enormous Door (2013, The Netherlands)
post-punk / jazz-rock
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I'd normally consider The Ex to be too big to be featured in this blog, but this album is so fantastic and so vastly underrated I just had to post it. Beautiful fusion of (post) punk, jazz and Ethiopian music.

Sergey Kuryokhin

Sergey Kuryokhin - Sparrow Oratorium (1993, Russia)
avant-prog / modern classical
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Ihor Cymbrows'kyj

Ihor Cymbrows'kyj - Przyjdź aniele (1996, Ukraine)
avant-folk / singer-songwriter / poetry
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Totó la Momposina

Totó la Momposina - La Candela Viva (1993, Colombia)
bullerengue / cumbia
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DakhaBrakha

 DakhaBrakha - Na Dobranich (2005, Ukraine)
 ukrainian folk

DakhaBrakha - Ягудки (2007)
ukrainian folk / psych folk / freak folk

DakhaBrakha - Na Mezhi (2009)

DakhaBrakha - Light (2010)

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Neun Welten

Neun Welten - Destrunken (2009, Germany)
dark folk / neofolk
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Thierry Robin

Thierry Robin - Gitans (1993, France)
romani folk / flamenco nuevo
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Erkut Özkan

Erkut Özkan - Kara Yerler (2014, Turkey)
turkish folk
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Kolinda

Kolinda - Kolinda (1976, Hungary)
hungarian folk / progressive folk / neo-medieval folk

Kolinda - Kolinda 2 (1977)

Kolinda - 1514 (1979)

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Migala

Migala - Arde (2000, Spain)
slowcore / post rock
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Repetitor

Repetitor - Sve što vidim je prvi put (2008, Serbia)
noise rock / indie rock
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Passo Torto

Passo Torto - Passo Torto (2011, Brazil)
MPB / samba / vanguarda paulista
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Passo Torto - Passo Elétrico (2013)
vanguarda paulista / experimental rock / math rock

Kim Doo Soo

Kim Doo Soo - Evening River (2010, South Korea)
psych folk
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Dunja Knebl

Dunja Knebl - Cetiri Frtalji (2000, Croatia)
croatian folk
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Dunja Knebl & Kololira - Tamo Doli (2013)
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Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna

Various Artists - Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna (2010, Morocco)
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Signor Benedick the Moor

Signor Benedick the Moor - El Negro (2013, USA)
experimental hip hop / abstract hip hop
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Lemchaheb

Lemchaheb - Lemchaheb '78 (1978, Morocco)
arabic folk

Jessica93

Jessica93 - Who Cares (2013, France)
post-punk / shoegaze

Naná Vasconcelos

Naná Vasconcelos - Saudades (1980, Brazil)
avant-folk / modern classical / brazilian music

Naná Vasconcelos - 4 Elementos (2013)
brazilian music / avant-folk / jazz fusion

Candeia

Candeia - Axé! (1978, Brazil)
samba

Toto Bissainthe

Toto Bissainthe - Chante Haiti (1977, Haiti)
haitian folk

Mendelson

Mendelson - Personne ne le fera pour nous (2007, France)
experimental rock / dream pop / slowcore / nouvelle chanson francaise

Mendelson - Mendelson (2013)
experimental rock / spoken word / post rock

Disciplina Kicme

Disciplina Kicme - Zeleni Zub Na Planeti Dosade (1989, Yugoslavia/Serbia)
experimental rock

Ossian

Ossian - Księga chmur (1979, Poland)
avant folk / jazz fusion

Aziza Brahim

Aziza Brahim - Soutak (2014, Western Sahara / Algeria)
sahrawi / tishoumaren

Epos

Epos - Ilya (1989, Russia)
progressive folk / Russian folk