Off the Map

1970 red vinyl 3LP Japanese compilation on Toshiba with orchestral, instrumental and easy-listening covers of popular Japanese pop songs with beautiful glamour cover and poster.

1963 Japanese compilation on Columbia with easy-listening covers of classic latin tunes with beautiful glamour cover.

1969 Japanese easy-listening compilation on Decca with beautiful glamour cover.

Striking 1970 Japanese 10LP box set collecting all albums on World Record Club's "Odeon Series" of mood music with beautiful individual glamour covers.

1970's Italian (?) album of revolutionary songs dedicated to "Che" Guevara somehow connected with the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional).

Mid-1970's re-issue on Ocora of one of the most amazing albums of ethnic music documentation with music that sounds like alien avantgarde rock, listen to believe.

Cuba's Grupo de Experimentación Sonora, formed at the film institute in 1969 under Leo Brouwer with Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés and Noel Nicola: nueva trova with a film composer's palette. Areito volume 4, original Cuban pressing, plays well.

1977 album on Divergo with field recordings of chants of love and war of Aswan Bedouins. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With insert.

1977 re-issue on Vogue of the 1956 with a field recording of traditional Gitano flamenco music.

Original Italian edition on Fontana of the 1974 classic and popularizing album of traditional Celtic music.

Original Italian edition on PDU of the 1978 album by the main popularizer of traditional Celtic music.

1980 re-issue of the amazing 1974 album on Museum Collection Berlin's wonderful ethnic music series with the hypnotic and wild music of the Pontic Greeks. With insert.

1962 Indian LP on Parlophone with recordings of South Indian Carnatic classical music by master vocalist and veena player. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original French edition of the 1965 first album by the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.

Original 1967 album by the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition on Bärenreiter/Musicaphon's wonderful Unesco Collection "A Musical Anthology Of The Orient".

Original French edition of the 1984 album by the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.

Original Italian edition on Arion's "Universo Folklore" ethnic music series of the 1978 album of ragas sung by one of the Female Trinity of carnatic music.

Still sealed original Italian edition on Arion's "Universo Folklore" ethnic music series of the beautiful 1976 album of classical Indian music for sitar, bansuri and tabla.

Still sealed original Italian edition on Arion's "Universo Folklore" ethnic music series of the 1977 album of wonderful hypnotic music for the traditional Sundanese bamboo instrument.

1970's Dutch edition on Philips' "Song And Sound The World Around" ethnic music series of the 1968 Santūr, Tunbūk, And Tār album of superb recordings of Persian traditional music.