EC Brown Finds

EC Brown found some interesting sites:

:: An entire CD posted of the music of Meiko Kaji, a B-film actress and singer from Japan (she was the star of Lady Snowblood)

:: The Al Mashriq site provides a couple of lengthy recordings by famed Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum: 'Raq el Habib' (performed 1941) and 'Ouzkourini' (performed 1939)

:: Zombi, who recreate the 80's Goblin sound

:: Masguda Shamsutdinova, Tartar composer

:: Family Fiesta convert medieval and traditional Spanish music into frollicking children's music (in mostly Spanish and English).

:: Harris Newman is a solo guitarist from Montreal performing a dandy Western-raga style, primarily on the steel guitar.

:: Finland's Kuupuu is the lo-fi psych solo-project of Jonna Karanka.

:: Ukranian band named Guitars sounds like an odd hybrid of various things 1980s

:: 2 CDs of music from a Classical composer/conductor and Sufi potentate Hidayat Inayat-Khan