"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Perhaps the most diverse of all, World music attempts to encapsulate the enormous possibilities of expressions and cultures across the globe. Created and performed by indigenous musicians, it is characterized in the sonic form by non-western ethnic scales, modes and musical inflections and the physical form by unique native instruments such as steel drums, sitars and didgeridoos.
Here we open the doors of infinite exploration from Afro-Latin grooves to Celtic musings to Cajun Zydeco with the works of BeauSoleil, Celia Cruz, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Steel Pulse and many, many more.
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