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[johncorrigan]

G = Garifuna....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lW5ozjGX1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ01Kcx8k6c

although I'd be delighted if anyone with knowledge of China could contribute music from Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces

Good call Global, though I was thinking Gamelan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIZObNdJb0

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good call Global, though I was thinking Gamelan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIZObNdJb0

I was planning a little Ghanaian Drumming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO4wuBFBChE

[Pianorak]

H for Daniel Humair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdL4RS8GgVI

[Lat-Literal]

although I'd be delighted if anyone with knowledge of China could contribute music from Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces

See geofflikesmusic:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?4052-Traditional-Ethnic-Music-(on-Spotify-amp-YouTube)

Just because this is going twenty times faster than four hungry children and a crop in the field, don't let anyone think that I am not in with the in tray.

V much more shortly!

[johncorrigan]

For H I was thinking Harp, but specifically I was thinking of those Horse worshipping, Jew's Harp playing women who stunned us all at the Human Planet Prom 4 or 5 years back. Remember when they used to have proms like that.
Ayarkhaan from the Sakha Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfF28Xd5xw0

Maybe H should be Human Planet...mibbe, mibbe not!

[Lat-Literal]

Many thanks for all the links which I have listened to in full apart from the documentary which I'm saving until later. Initially I thought that Gabriele Boggio Ferraris played the balafon - with a B - but then I discovered he is more vibe and that vibe has entailed covering Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" May I just take the opportunity here not only to mention the singular rendition by Paul Anka of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" but also the versions of that song by Ben Williams and the Sunji Lee Quintet plus the Charlie Hunter Trio's "Come As You Are". There I've done it and that one's very nicely sorted. As far as Daniel Humair is concerned, we may need first to consider in some detail his work with Vincent Peirani.

Several members of the Committee liked F for Ferrer but others remarked that it was "a bit Buena Vista" and Joe had included those folks. The decision was to keep it on hold as an I for Ibrahim if no one came forward with a good I for anything else. In contrast, when the envelope was opened to find that G could be for Garifuna, gamelan and Ghanaian drumming, we asked for the inputs of a French prophet who had said in the mid 1970s there was a risk we could all "drown in music". Discussions are ongoing with one individual holding out for Gillett, C and I will put my hands up here. That person is me and I may dig my heels in. H is for harps, horse worship and the Human Planet. It is not inconceivable that all those three could be combined and, if so, Ayarkhaan are probably the people to do it. When we have done the next two letters - and do all feel free either to backtrack or fast forward at any time - I will combine everyone's thinking so far in an updated list. That way we can postpone a merry Konono No 1 dance on "is it a K for Kennedy or Kothari?"

[johncorrigan]

Well alternatively I could be Ibrahims - Abdullah and Ferrer - just a thought. As for K, since you mention it Lat, I can't decide:
Klezmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqV...oXhJeLSihV1sFg
Kora:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7yscUCZMBI
Kwela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKz5...=RDEg9NUZ-G-sk
...spoiled for choice!

...but hold on, what happened to J - did I miss something?

[Lat-Literal]

Well alternatively I could be Ibrahims - Abdullah and Ferrer - just a thought. As for K, since you mention it Lat, I can't decide:
Klezmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqV...oXhJeLSihV1sFg
Kora:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7yscUCZMBI
Kwela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKz5...=RDEg9NUZ-G-sk
...spoiled for choice!

...but hold on, what happened to J - did I miss something?

That's very useful, John, thanks. I'm intending to do an update after J. Had to be a bit vague about it as our host doesn't like the letter J as you know, nor H which is why he hasn't commented on H. You are in luck. Only one of your names starts with those letters. That is to say you just have a J. In real life, my first and last names begin with the same letters as the presenter of "Later" and the previous owner of the building I am sitting in had the surname "Holland". Fortunately that is not my surname so only the initials are tricky.

[johncorrigan]

"Holland".

Yeah, Lat, that could make it in... need a spot of Pacific in there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOaLP-qPmk

[Lat-Literal]

Yeah, Lat, that could make it in... need a spot of Pacific in there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOaLP-qPmk

Smashing.

[johncorrigan]

J - Township Jive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRc7hs3GZo

Just to ensure there's a spot of joy!
...or maybe we should wait for Mbaqanga!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWYFkjH2jc

[Globaltruth]

J - Township Jive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRc7hs3GZo

Just to ensure there's a spot of joy!
...or maybe we should wait for Mbaqanga!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWYFkjH2jc

Well, there's more than a spot of joy in Klezmer! If Max ever visited again, he'd be most keen to vote for that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9h0sksX0g

[Lat-Literal]

J - Township Jive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRc7hs3GZo

Just to ensure there's a spot of joy!
...or maybe we should wait for Mbaqanga!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWYFkjH2jc

Great clips - and I love that first album.

Some other thoughts:

D could be for Duran or Doug Schulkind, E for ethnomusicologists, and F for Franco, flamenco or Froots.

H for Haiti, hardanger fiddle or, erm, hoss hair and J for jit, Jean Jenkins, Japan or Jajouka.

What are we thinking about the letter "I"?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What are we thinking about the letter "I"?

I'm going to Iceland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xv13yyo270

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU15xs9TgdE

[johncorrigan]

D could be for Duran or Doug Schulkind,
What are we thinking about the letter "I"?

...or 'Dust to Digital', Lat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_TD10AfExg