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RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit internet radio station featuring obscure regional folk and pop music from the global hinterlands.

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Exploratory Music Service – Radio On In Isaan. Chaiyaphum Province, Isaan, Thailand during January 2009 (Simon Loynes) #exploratorymusicservice #isaanfieldrecordings #sonicpostcards #radioghosts #thaishortwave

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Wild scene from the film Baraka. Balinese hypnotic chant-dance (kecak) where the men shout “cak-cak-cak!”, a performance dramatizing a Hindu epic about a monkey king. Fricke, Ron, director. 1992. Baraka. Orland Park, IL: Magidson Films. #kecakvibes #balihypnotic #kecakfire

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Ketjak-Rock – Eberhard Schoener (Hör Zu/EMI Electrola, Germany, 1976) #balisynth #krautrockvibes # vintagesynthchants #obscurevinyl #protodrumandbass

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Tsugaru no Gensō 北国の三味奏 – 民謡会館七五三社中(Minyō Kaikan Shichigosan Shachū) – (Teichiku Records – 44-43, 1969). Many thanks to Rob Millis! #shamisenvibes #tsugarushamisen #obscurejapan #rarevinyl #musicdiscovery #exoticbanger

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Ayham Bishara, known as "Al-Qahir Bishara," is a Syrian keyboard player celebrated for his unconventional virtuoso performances in the early 2000s Syrian popular music scene, where he challenged established organists like Talal al-Da'our—nicknaming himself "Qahir al-Da'our"

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Opening Prayer – Syrian Dervishes. Recorded by Deben Bhattacharya – Konya, Turkey (BAM, 1971) #oldsufivibes #debenbhattacharya #fieldrecordinggold #worldmusicgems #dervishdreams

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This beautiful 2-hour epic mixtape of Khammu field recordings from Thailand, Laos, and Yunnan, 1998-2023 by Fred Gales @ Sound Reporters is schedule for Tuesday night 8-10PM (CST), Wednesday morning 8-10AM (CST) & again Wednesday afternoon 1-3PM. Please tune in and support us if

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KHAMMU RECORDINGS FROM THAILAND, LAOS AND YUNNAN, 1998-2023 This beautiful 2-hour epic mixtape of Khammu field recordings from Thailand, Laos, and Yunnan, 1998-2023 by Fred Gales @ Sound Reporters is schedule for Tuesday night 8-10PM (CST), Wednesday morning 8-10AM (CST) & again

KHAMMU RECORDINGS FROM THAILAND, LAOS AND YUNNAN, 1998-2023
This beautiful 2-hour epic mixtape of Khammu field recordings from Thailand, Laos, and Yunnan, 1998-2023 by Fred Gales @ Sound Reporters is schedule for Tuesday night 8-10PM (CST), Wednesday morning 8-10AM (CST) & again
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We don't receive much physical mail these days, but we really appreciate it when we do. Thank you so much, David Novak, for the copy that of your super cool new book, Tapeheads, an exploration of the living history of cassette culture in Indonesia.  #ethnomusicology #tapeheads

We don't receive much physical mail these days, but we really appreciate it when we do. Thank you so much, David Novak, for the copy that of your super cool new book, Tapeheads, an exploration of the living history of cassette culture in Indonesia. 

#ethnomusicology #tapeheads
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French-Moroccan musician Firdaouss El Fahiri shares some lovely personal recordings made in the “Kingdom of the Atlas” during trips in 2012 & 2015, including street sounds, funeral music, local radio, gnawa, Amazigh songs from the old madrassas and more. #moroccanmusic #gnawa

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Today @ 10am (CST), 4pm (CST) & 9pm (CST) RADIO NOUAKCHOTT (RIAFC169) In 2003, Matthew Lavoie recorded over 30 hours of Mauritanian national radio broadcasts on a cassette recorder. This audio montage features selections from this collection. In 2003, Radio Mauritanie was the

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This can’t be good… right? An English baroness, New Age spirit medium, founder of the Temple of the New Dawn… playing gongs she learned from a Tibetan shaman? Well… actually, it’s really good. In 1970 Nesta Kerin Crain pressed a private LP called Gongs – An Audio-Mystical Trip

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Eerie, cacophonous "bubble jammer" out of Iran. Recorded March 4, 2026, at 7910 kHz, 0218 UTC by Dan Greenall and posted to the Shortwave Archive. #shortwaveradio #oddities #mysterysignals #iranjammer #lostintransmission