Asian folk/traditional music

[esbrewer]

I have always enjoyed the Chinese and Japanese equivalents to Western folk and traditional music in film or in a few isolated instances on the radio - yet numerous searches for information and/or sources of such music have been fruitless. All of the internet radio stations I have found coming from these countries feature terrible pop or Western music exclusively.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Why is such information so hard to find?

[.brum]

Hi,

You don't mention if it's explicitly radio stations that you're after, or just general directions. I don't know of any radio stations in that direction, but I've been fortunate enough to find quite a lot of Japanase and especially Chinese music on my local libraries.

One record I wholeheartedly recommend for anyone the least interested in Chinese traditional music is 'Yuan' by the Guo Brothers, distributed by RealWorld (http://www.realworldusa.com/albumpages/guo/default.html). I believe Last.fm has some stuff up for listening.

Rgds,

brum