ethnic music

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They're an Albanian duo living in Italy, who fuse the ethnic music of their hometown, Shkodër, to a progressive electronic sound.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

In the mid-1970s, at what is now Tokyo University of the Arts, he received a master’s degree in music composition but also became intensely devoted to the study of electronic and ethnic music.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2023

“Since I was very young, I was very interested in ethnic music of the world,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2019

Mr. Sarno worked in a laundromat there, conducted research into ethnic music at the public library and frequently joined his wife on visits to her family in Scotland.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2017

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall