Traditional Music

The World Arbiter label presents 1941 recordings of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai – masters of the shamisen. An extensive anthology of traditional Japanese music was created sometime around 1941-1942 by the Kokusai Bunka Shinkôkai (KBS), International Organization for the Promotion of Culture. KBS was established under the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1934 for cultural exchange between Japan and foreign countries, representing genres such as gagaku (court music), shômyô (Buddhist chants), nô (Noh medieval theater play), heikyoku (biwa-lute narratives of battles), shakuhachi (bamboo flute music), koto (long zither music), shamisen (three-stringed lute music), sairei bayashi (instrumental music for folk festivals), komori-uta (cradle songs, lullabies), warabe-uta (children songs), and riyou (min'you) (folk songs). Considering that 1941-1942 was a most daunting time for Japan's economy and international relationships with Asian and Western countries, it is remarkable that this excellent anthology of Japanese music was ever completed and published, as it contains judiciously selected pieces from various genres performed by top-level artists at that time.

Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II pays a return visit to the otherworldly noumenal ecosystem inside Rashad Becker's head, relaying indecipherable messages in something resembling an expressive language of psychoacoustic, cuneiform glyphs. No Rosetta Stone is required to comprehend these deeply abstract auditory tableaus; all you need is an open mind and functioning set of lugs for reception, whilst whatever counts for your sense of consciousness will fill in the gaps, and that’s where the “fun” starts.

BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC 2 - VARIOUS ARTISTS
ANOTHER GREAT ALBUM OF BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN INTERPRETATIONS OF BEST VOCALIST OF SEVDAH WHICH IS ESSENCE NAME FOR BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC

BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC PRESENTED AND DONE BY BEST PERFORMERS OF BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC SUCH AS HIMZO POLOVINA, ZEHRA DEOVIC, NADA MAMULA … BOSNIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC CONTAINS LYRICS AND MELODIES WHICH DATE BACK CENTURY OR EVEN MORE, AND IS VERY SENSITIVE, SAD AND IT IS ABOUT LOVE, PAIN, SORROW ….