Just a log collecting the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music.

Africa

• ✅ UNES08054 Aka Pygmy Music
• ✅ UNES08037 Algeria: Sahara – Music of Gourara
• ✅ UNES08057 Benin: Bariba and Somba Music
• ✅ UNES08029 Cameroon: Baka Pygmy Music
• ✅ UNES08020 Central African Republic
• ✅ UNES08043 Central African Republic: Banda Polyphony
• ✅ UNES08203 Côte d’Ivoire: A Senufo-Fodonon - Funerary Vigil
• ✅ UNES08048 Côte d’Ivoire: Baule Vocal Music
• ✅ UNES08038 Egypt: Taqâsîm & Layâlî - Cairo Tradition
• ✅ UNES08074 Ethiopia: Three Cordophone Traditions
• ✅ UNES08275 Madagascar: Land of The Betsimisaraka
• ✅ UNES08282 Madagascar: Spirit Music from the Tamatave Region
• ✅ UNES08265 Music Tradition of Malawi
• ✅ UNES08002 Morocco: Arabic Traditional Music
• ✅ UNES08006 Niger/Northern Benin: Music of the Fulani
• ✅ UNES08072 Sudan: Music of the Blue Nile Province - The Gumuz Tribe
• ✅ UNES08073 Sudan: Music of the Blue Nile Province - The Ingessana and Berta Tribes

Asia

• ✅ UNES08284 Afghanistan: Female Musicians of Herat
• ✨✅ UNES08320 Afghanistan: Music During the Civil War (1979-2001)
• ✅ UNES08266 Afghanistan: The Traditional Music of Herât
• ✅ UNES08045 Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani Mugam
• ✅ UNES08046 Bahrain: Fidjeri: Songs of the Pearl Divers
• ✅ UNES08077 Bengal: Bengali Traditional Folk Music
• ✅ UNES08068 Cambodia: Folk and Ceremonial Music
• ✅ UNES08011 Cambodia: Royal Music
• ✅ UNES08071 China
• ✅ UNES08209 China: Chuida Wind and Percussive Instrumental Ensembles
• ✅ UNES08031 Hong Kong: Instrumental Music
• ✅ UNES08033 India: North Indian Folk Music
• ✅ UNES08267 India: Vicitra Vina - The Music of Pandit Lalmani Misra
• ✅ UNES08270 Anthology of Indian Classical Music: A Tribute to Alain Daniélou
• ✅ UNES08283 North India: Dhrupad Singing by Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar
• ✅ UNES08021 North India: Instrumental Music - Rudra Veena, Vichitra Veena, Sarod, Shahnai
• ✅ UNES08017 North India: Instrumental Music - Sitar, Flute, Sarangi
• ✅ UNES08205 North India: Instrumental Music of Mediaeval India
• ✅ UNES08076 North India: Vocal music - Dhrupad and Khyal
• ✅ UNES08311 South India: Ranganayaki Rajagopalan—Continuity in the Karaikudi Vina Style
• ✅ UNES08078 Indonesia: Java - Music of the Theatre
• ✅ UNES08041 Indonesia: Music from West Java
• ✅ UNES08272 Bali: Balinese Music of Lombok
• ✅ UNES08059 Bali: Court Music and Banjar Music
• ✅ UNES08003 Bali: Folk Music
• ✅ UNES08051 Java: Sundanese Folk Music
• ✅ UNES08014 Java: Vocal Art
• ✅ UNES08044 Iraq: Iqa’at - Traditional Rhythmic Structure
• ✅ UNES08047 Japan: Ainu Songs
• ✅ UNES08319 Japan: Koishimaru Izutsuya: Master of the Kawachi Ondo Epics
• ✅ UNES08030 Japan: O-Suwa-Daiko Drums
• ✅ UNES08016 Japan: Semiclasssical and Folk Music
• ✅ UNES08036 Japan: Shomyo Buddhist Ritual - Dai Hannya Ceremony
• ✅ UNES08010 Korea
• ✅ UNES08023 Kurdish Music
• ✅ UNES08042 Laos: Traditional Music of the South
• ✅ UNES08025 Middle East: Sung Poetry
• ✅ UNES08207 Mongolia: Traditional Music
• ✅ UNES08281 Myanmar: Music by the Hsaing Waing Orchestra: The Burmese Harp
• ✅ UNES08279 Nepal: Ritual and Entertainment
• ✨✅ UNES08305 Oman: Arabian Weddings
• ✅ UNES08211 Oman: Traditional Arts of the Sultanate of Oman
• ✅ UNES08028 Pakistan: The Music of the Qawal
• ✅ UNES08301 Russian Orthodox Chants
• ✅ UNES08013 Syria: Islamic Ritual Zikr in Aleppo
• ✅ UNES08039 Syrian Orthodox Church: Antioch Liturgy
• ✅ UNES08075 Syrian Orthodox Church: Tradition of Tur Abdin in Mesopotamia
• ✅ UNES08212 Tajik Music of Badakhshan
• ✅ UNES08007 Thailand: The Music of Chieng Mai
• ✅ UNES08034 Tibetan Ritual
• ✅ UNES08069 Turkey: Bektashi Music - Ashik Songs
• ✅ UNES08213 Turkmen Epic Singing: Köroglu
• ✅ UNES08306 Uzbekistan: Echoes of Vanished Courts
• ✅ UNES08269 Uzbekistan: Music of Khorezm
• ✨✅ UNES08308 Uzbekistan: Musical Traditions of the Karakalpaks
• ✅ UNES08035 Viet Nam: Ca Tru & Quan Ho - Traditional Music
• ✅ UNES08058 Viet Nam: Court Theatre Music: Hat-Bôi
• ✅ UNES08049 Viet Nam: Tradition of the South
• ✅ UNES08070 Viet Nam: Traditions of the South
• ✅ UNES08022 Viet Nam: Hát Chèo - Traditional Folk Theatre
• ✅ UNES08273 Yemen: Songs from Hadramawt
• ✅ UNES08004 Yemen: Traditional Music of the North
• ✅ UNES08024 The Yemenite Jews
• ✅ UNES08302 Yoshihisha Taira: Tribute to Noguchi

Australia and Oceania

• ✅ UNES08040 Australia: Aboriginal Music
• ✅ UNES08277 Australia: Music from the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, 1850—1900
• ✨✅ UNES08316 Fiji: Songs of Love and Homeland—String Band Music
• ✅ UNES08027 Solomon Islands: Fataleka and Baegu Music from Malaita
• ✅ UNES08274 Vanuatu: The Music Tradition of West Futuna

Europe

• ✅ UNES08015 Armenia: Liturgical Chants - Mekhitarist Community of Venice
• ✅ UNES08019 Bulgaria
• ✅ UNES08005 Byelorussia: Musical Folklore of the Byelorussian Polessye
• ✅ UNES08012 Corsica: Religious Music of Oral Tradition
• ✅ UNES08276 Croatia
• ✅ UNES08202 France: Bagpipes of Central France
• ✅ UNES08018 Greece: Traditional Music
• ✅ UNES08056 Greece: Vocal Monodies
• ✅ UNES08271 Ireland
• ✅ UNES08055 Islamic Ritual from Kosovo
• ✅ UNES08063 Norway: Fiddle and Hardanger Fiddle Music from Agder
• ✨✅ UNES08317 Portugal: Festas in Minho
• ✨✅ UNES08323 Portugal: Music and Dance from Madeira
• ✅ UNES08008 Portugal: Portuguese Traditional Music
• ✅ UNES08310 Romania: Festive Music from the Maramures Region
• ✅ UNES08210 Sicily: Music for the Holy Week
• ✅ UNES08026 Switzerland: Zäuerli, Yodel of Appenzell
• ✅ UNES08204 Turkey: The Turkish Ney
• ✅ UNES08303 Turkish Classical Music: Tribute to Yunus Emre
• ✅ UNES08206 Ukraine: Traditional Music

North America

• ✅ UNES08032 Canada: Inuit Games and Songs
• ✅ UNES08053 Canada: Music of the Inuit - The Copper Eskimo Tradition
• ✅ UNES08064 Folk Music of Cuba
• ✅ UNES08304 Mexican Indian Traditions

South America

• ✅ UNES08208 Argentina: Tritonic Musics of the North-West
• ✅ UNES08009 Bolivia: Panpipes
• ✅ UNES08201 Brazil: Bororo World of Sound
• ✅ UNES08001 Chile: Hispano-Chilean Metisse Traditional Music
• ✨✅ UNES08307 Peru: Andean Music of Life, Work, and Celebration
• ✅ UNES08268 Peru: Music of the Indigenous Communities of Cuzco
• ✅ UNES08278 Trinidad & Tobago: Trinidad - Music from the North Indian Tradition
• ✨✅ UNES08318 Venezuela: Afro-Venezuelan Music, volumes I and II

 

Last edited: Dec 30, 2025

Great channels found on the way

https://www.youtube.com/@AmbientscapeChannel
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAvantgardeCave

 

Last edited: Dec 29, 2025

Can anyone make sense of this?

I like this channel with traditional music https://www.youtube.com/@Unconquered_Sun

 

Soulseek, Nicotine++

 

i will buy a hard drive if i find them all, i just have like 10 albums and things in there are really unique!

 

Yes, archive.org has a lot. I am mostly looking for reference recordings that would fit my drive. The rest is for crate-digging.

PS. if you search for "(Blogger)" you will find a number of blogs scraped with JDownloader. ton of material

 

Last edited: Dec 27, 2025

If you like Mongol music, try this amazing album :
https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/...Et-Instrumentale-Vocal-And-Instrumental-Music

Some vocals were sampled by various musician, like Sorma :

With the most beautiful voice in the universe : Adilbish Nergui

 

Done. Let's just say some chinese sites have magic in them.

 

Last edited: Dec 29, 2025

Monitoring for interest.

 

knowing that there is so much interesting and diverse music out there that I won't even hear in my lifetime depresses me, but Im also insanely happy at the thought of music being so pervasive throughout the world

 

Great stuff, i've always used a lot of Ethnic samples, Asian, African, Balkan etc my next release has Digeridoo und Tuvan Throat Whistling, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestral players, blends seamlessly, the club mix starts with the Digeridoo, sounds like a massive sub bass.

The Baka rainforest peoples singing is fantastic, 5 point harmony that more than matches any western classical voices.

Often need to cut ethnic stuff up or retune etc to fit, but that's part of the fun eh.

Far out, many thanks for this man.

 

That´s the best thing about music, you never know what´s out there already, but it keeps people "connecting" with each other.. the universal language