Month: January 2012

  • Free World Music Download!

    World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Tarona 1” by Academy of Maqam from the album Music of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks (SFW40521)    Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is “Tarona 1,” performed by Academy of Maqam. Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand…

  • Free! World Music Download

      World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Under the Double Eagle performed by J.C. Sutphin, from the album “American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style”(SFW40037) This recording was the first bluegrass LP ever released. The reissue now contains 16 additional tracks, a total of 43 tunes played by the immortal Snuffy Jenkins and…

  • Free World Music Download – Tango!

    A beautiful milonga is free to download from Alexander Street Press! from Margaret Loebe at Alexander Street Press: World Music Download from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings “Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) – milonga” by Los Gauchos de Roldán from the album Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay (SFW40561)      Our featured download from Smithsonian Folkways…