I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

yall wont trick me into listening to kpop

You can try Radiooooo.com - The Musical Time Machine!!

choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!

you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).

I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)

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I was really into salsa music long before I knew any Spanish. Brazil also has a ton of music I love including Olodum (sensing a theme here, I love music with African rhythm influences.) Continuing on this theme, there is Raï which is mainly in Algeria which is just really freaking cool, it has the African rhythms with more Arab influence and also integrating elements of other musical genres including jazz and Western pop music.

Also some specific musicians I like have integrated their own music with other traditions. One of the most brilliant IMHO is Bela Fleck, a banjo player from the US who started out with a unique fusion of bluegrass+jazz+pop+classical, but has now traveled around the world and recorded and released collaborative albums with musicians from all around the world who play a staggering variety of different types of music. I think he is a good example of how you can have a distinctly American style of music but you can then blend it with all these other musical traditions from other cultures.

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

Yeah I would have guessed this was on some ancient pottery or something

a little lichen and gold pendant for my elfy friends :-)

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I haven’t actually posted on her in 92 years, but my baby sister’s cat is in trouble health-wise and we need some financial help. Please consider sharing. Thank you so much.

(I had to go looking to see where it was from. They have other colors too! With different fillings.)

It got better :0

went from “KITTY” to “That is a grown ass man.” real quick.