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The Roma's signifiers are still source of both reverence and derision in the West. While their cultural product, from the great Django Reinhardt to the pop chart-ready sound of the Gipsy Kings, has been happily consumed, as a people they have been held at arm's length by a Europe still fixating typecasts of the thief and the mystic. Today, the Roma remain one of the most persecuted communities in Europe.

The well known Djembe list, a rich source of drum + dance related info

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The middle eastern oboe plays an important role in folk music from China to Morrocco. It's a double reed instrument called mizmar in Egypt, and named zurna in Turkey. In China the Uygur people used the surnai or surnay in their music and in Iran it's known under the name sorna or sornay which means literally "strong flute". The word nay means flute. According to other sources sorna simply means horn. The Nepalese version of the is in a cresent form and looks more like a horn. Another related instrument is the Indian shehnai which contains the same root "nai".

Rich source of curious and rare information on jazz musicians, culture, history, etc.

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" < 1 2 3 > Tier ascending order Artist Years Active 2nd Listen Now! To Rococo Rot 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Fluke 80s, 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Cylob 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Jammin' Unit 90s 2nd Listen Now! Jega 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! System 7 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Nobukazu Takemura 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Pole 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Kit Clayton 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Squarepusher 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Kid606 90s, 00s 2nd Listen Now! Nightmares on Wax 80s, 90s, 00s 3rd Like a Tim 90s 3rd Listen Now! Steve Stoll 90s, 00s 3rd Kinesthesia 90s 3rd Escape Tank 90s 3rd Listen Now! Mike Dred 90s 3rd Vert 00s 3rd Lithops 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Jimpster 90s, 00s 3rd Human Mesh Dance 90s 3rd Listen Now! Beaumont Hannant 90s 3rd Global Goon 90s, 00s 3rd Mira Calix 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Source 90s 3rd Listen Now! Single Cell Orchestra 90s 3rd Omicron 90s 3rd Lexaunculpt 90s 3rd Nonplace Urban Field 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! I-F 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Sweet Exorcist 90s 3rd Listen Now! Jamie Lidell 00s 3rd Gearwhore 90s 3rd Listen Now! Pluramon 90s 3rd Listen Now! Gescom 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Freaky Chakra 90s, 00s 3rd Mice Parade 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! DMX Krew 90s, 00s 3rd Ø 90s 3rd Ian Simmonds 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Tadd Mullinix 00s 3rd Leila 90s 3rd Kid Spatula 90s, 00s 3rd Repeat 90s, 00s 3rd Listen Now! Amorphous Androgynous 90s, 00s 3rd Holosud 90s 3rd Listen Now! Marumari 90s, 00s 3rd Push Button Objects 90s, 00s 3rd Forgemasters 90s 3rd Phthalocyanine 90s, 00s < 1 2 3 > "

Prof. Eric Charry's seminal ethnomusicology essay on the West African drum called "djembe" or "jenbe, jembe."

Something like hearing the rural roots of Roland Kirk. Voice & flute vocalize together. Luminous, haunting, joyous, grief-stricken, a cry, a laugh, a call, a weeping...Peul (Fulani) flute (tambin) music is masterful in Sylvain Leroux's charge...Echos of Baaba Maal's musical scales, tone, and tenor.