Dear Jesscia,maybe you'll find something on www.jamendo.org - that music comes with cc-licenses, so downloading is free and possible: You can search the website for genres, and I don't think the average "western" listener will know titels, albums, or artists. Also statistics are provided, so you can make sure a certain song/album/artist is not that popular.
If you use the latest version of amarok, you can search jamendo from within the audio player.
All the best, Wolfgang On 13.08.2010 16:46, Jessica Grahn wrote:
Dear list, I would appreciate any pointers for places to find/purchase/download unfamiliar music. That is, music that fits within typical Western genres (rock/pop, classical, jazz, electronic), but the majority of which is unlikely to have been heard by the average European or North American listener. Perhaps such a database of such music might exist already, or maybe someone knows a particularly fruitful online source of unheard-of bands and composers? Many thanks, Jessica
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