Free Japanese, Chinese and Asian Folk Music MP3 Downloads

This site has a great collection of traditional Chinese music (though it's in .au format not MP3 so you'll probably need to play it through Quicktime).

Heaps of examples of traditional Chinese folk tunes including Two Fountains Reflecting Moon, Red Army Arrived at ShaanBei and Revitalization Joss Stick.

Worth checking out as a good introduction to Chinese music.

> Listen to traditional Chinese Folk Music

This site contains about traditional Japanese folk songs in a variety of formats such as MP3, MIDI, PDF and even Finale Music Notation format.

Includes a mixture of Nagai and Kobatake Songs which are traditional pieces originally published in the 1892 book Japanese Popular Music, by Y. Nagai and K. Kobatake.

> Visit the DaisyField traditional Japanese music webpage

Deborah is from Singapore and has studied both Piano and the traditional Chinese Instrument, the Erhu which is a 2-stringed Violin and played in a Chinese Orchestra for many years.

The site contains a mixture of pieces for solo Erhu and Chamber Orchestra pieces which contain instruments such as Guzheng, Pipa and Yangqin.

You can also find music from many other traditions such as Persia, India and Gospel music at the main site.

> Visit Deborah Koh's Chinese Music Folk page

Features the lyrics and MP3's of several famous Japanese folk songs, including Sakura (Cherry Blossoms), Hina Matsuri (Happy Dolls Festival) and Kojo no Tsuki (Moonlight on the Ruined Castle).

> Free Japanese Folk song MP3's and Lyrics

Paul is a folk singer who has worked lived and worked extensively in Japan. His songs cover areas such as the Japanese civil rights movement, changes in immigration law and the Vietnam war.

> Paul Arenson's Asian-influenced Folk songs

Jody and Kimo mix Japanese Koto with Sitar and Indoneasian Suling with Tabla's to create "divine inspirational themes" through music.Their music aims to celebrate cultural diversity and bring reconcilliation between different groups of people.

Although there are no full-length MP3's to download, there are numerous samples of each instrument they play such as the Ohe hano ihu (Hawaiian nose flute), Sitar and Korng Thomm (Cambodian Gongs).

> Asian influenced relaxation and spiritual music