Canto del Pilon - Maria Marquez and Frank Harris

Venezuela has a lot of good music, in all genres, including 'llanero' (country), pop and EDM.  But what I liked best was this song, a tribute to their sketchy past, but with a very Andean feel, not typically Venezuelan on first listen.  There are many renditions and remixes, but I think this is close to the original...

mai chori sundari song in dzongkha

Bollywood kitsch, Bhutan style, when authenticity is just too borringg, from a people too damn happy, I reckon. But it's a beautiful country, I hear tell, hope to go there one day, soon. Eat your heart out, Lindsey Stirling...

Cate Le Bon performing "Fold The Cloth" on KCRW

Wales is that forgotten little country (did you know it was a country?) tucked under the UK's left wing on the UK's left coast and left there to prosper or rot, like it or not, earliest of the non-English additions, so approaching from another Angle, Celtic and proud, determined but not loud... and not Gaelic.  Ireland and sometimes Scotland get all the Celtic sympathy, but Wales is more traditional IMHO and likely predates it, the two languages dissimilar enough to indicate a notable degree of separation  in time if not space, but you're not likely to hear anyone speaking 'Irish' (Gaelic) there, much less complete with radio radio, but you will find exactly that in Wales, found it cruising through on the train to the ferry port, in fact, wasn't even looking, so there!  That was then 2003 fast forward to now and I'm looking for Welsh music, sorting through all the genres, generally ballads for the most part, with the occasional punk and the inevitable Celtic-woman-like show act, God help us.  Then I found Cate.  Wait a minute; I've heard this before--but where?  KCRW, of course.  And yes, she can do it in Welsh, too, all night long, figure our son would look just like me and the daughter just like her, you know the rest... move over, Enya...

Afro Arab Dance And Music - Bahrain - Record No. 1

This is interesting: and pretty darn good, too.  I'm not sure where the African DNA comes from, but I'm guessing the slave trade.  Seems it ended in these parts not so long ago--oops! The most interesting part of Bahrain's music in general is the syncopated clapping which seems to pop up everywhere almost any time.  Enjoy.

4U DVD Vol.37 - Tieng Mom Sotheavy " ចាស់ជួរអែម "

This is my vote for modern successor to Ros Sereysothea; song and singer definitely reminds me of the good old days of Sinn Sisamouth and others, just straight-ahead R & R Asian-style, with no self-conscious aping of the latest trends overseas, good news since a decade ago seems they were reduced to cheap imitation of Thai pop--yuk!