One of the things I love most about being here is the colorful, robust "stew" of cultures that I immerse myself in on a daily basis. Languages, habits, rituals, traditions, expressions...and music that I have only yet begun to learn and understand. It's so beautiful to me. There is almost a language here all it's own...one created from so many other languages that while walking or dancing or eating you overhear a conglomerate of sounds coming from the myriads of people surrounding you. It's an orchestra of culture...a symphony of the world, and I'm in love with it.
As the world surrounds me here and my love of music is expanding as far as the lines of latitude and longitude, I've been asking my friends here to send me their favorite music and here is just a tiny bit of what I have found here that I love...(more to come):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMS_nHyr0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJt3DFHnlW4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSh2_o_1zU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4uDmIdkaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3onBZ5C95g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFd-ODwC1FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is-C7szcdGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJt3DFHnlW4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFd-ODwC1FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaarYY62_BQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBy8eKcLCA
