Originally Posted by infinitefurby
WOW antiant...that's pretty crazy, I'll have to check some of them out. Here are two recommendations of mine:
1. ANY Indonesian gamelan music. Gamelan is usually a quite haunting form of music that's mostly played on gongs, bells, etc., and doesn't share the same scale that Western music does (I think it's a 5-tone scale, not sure tho). A good place to start is the CD "Gamelan Semar Pagulingan - Music from Bali", it's one of my favorites.
Gamelan seems to be a recurring theme associated with world music (haven't heard any yet, but i need to add that for future listening), ethnomusicology and Alan Lomax and his field studies
http://www.alan-lomax.com/ forgot to mention Alan Lomax that's like the pioneer right there for introducing "world music"/different oddities as a whole with his field studies etc
Originally Posted by infinitefurby
2. "Congotronics" by Konono No. 1 came out this year, and is an interesting album of sub-saharan electrified finger piano. You could actually play this one at a party, it's very energetic.
i've heard of the name Konono No. 1 there with the distro/label crammed
http://www.crammed.be/news/index.htm, however i haven't been able to actually hear their music just know the name, i need to check them out and other brazilian/world music artists i've mentioned are on there as well, you can hear audio/video samples