Since moving to Canada, Liu Fang has explored beyond Chinese classical pipa music, and collaborated with a slide guitarist from India, a cellist from Eastern Europe, a shakuhachi player from Japan, a zither player from Vietnam, an oud musician from the Middle East, and has recorded these multiculti collaborations with the Montreal-based Philmultic label.
Focuses only on sound, not songs ~ which sets it apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. It's a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
In these promotional notes (lengthy) for the German-Brazilian cross-pollinated musical collaboration "Pata Bahia," there's quite a bit of information (even between the lines) about the growth and worldwide dissemination of afrocentric musics rooted in Salvador, Bahia.
A group of rebetika enthusiasts are collaborating on the translation of all the songs in the book HASHISH REBETIKA by Suzanne Aulin and Peter Vejleskov.
In 1929, when Thomas de Hartmann and his wife took leave of G. I. Gurdjieff at Gurdjieff's Institute near Paris, they left behind a steamer trunk filled with manuscript music, much of which is recorded here for the first time. The music was composed by Gurdjieff and de Hartmann in a collaboration witnessed daily by the community of Gurdjieff's pupils and documented both in de Hartmann's book Our Life with Mr Gurdjieff and in the well-preserved sequence of manuscript drafts. One thing is clear: an exceptional musical event occurred at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in the years 1925-27, and its enduring result is this body of music.