The Topic World Series is widely praised as an important collection of the very best ethnographic recordings. Many releases have been made in conjunction with the International Music Collection of the British Library National Sound Archive.
Started in 1955, The British Library National Sound Archive is one of the largest in the world and now holds over a million discs, 175,000 tapes and many other sound and video recordings. Its aim is to collect, preserve and make accessible a comprehensive collection of music from all over the world. It covers thousands of styles and genres, both traditional and modern, from hundreds of countries.
International music has been a core collecting area for the NSA since its establishment and today the section is one of the largest and most wide-ranging in the world. One of the aims of the NSA is the wide dissemination of the music and information in its collections and the series of CDs produced in collaboration with Topic Records is a significant undertaking. For the most part the recordings are drawn from holdings of unpublished, unique field recordings, but they may also include reissues of 78rpm discs and LPs.
TSCD904 FOLK MUSIC OF ALBANIA
TSCD905 FOLK MUSIC OF BULGARIA
TSCD906 FOLK MUSIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
TSCD907 FOLK MUSIC OF GREECE
TSCD908 FOLK MUSIC OF TURKEY
TSCD911 MUSIC FROM THE SHRINES OF AJMER & MUNDRA
TSCD912 MUSIC OF THE TATAR PEOPLE
TSCD914 GYPSY MUSIC FROM MACEDONIA & NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
TSCD917 ZANZIBAR: MUSIC OF CELEBRATION
TSCD918 HEALING, FEASTING & MAGICAL RITUAL: PAPUA NEW GUINEA
TSCD919 THE MOKEN: SEA GYPSIES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA
TSCD920 THE YEMEN TIHAMA: TRANCE & DANCE MUSIC FROM THE RED SEA COAST
TSCD922 DRUMMING & CHANTING IN GOD’S OWN COUNTRY: TEMPLE MUSIC OF KERALA
TSCD923 GUMBOOT GUITAR: ZULU STREET GUITAR MUSIC FROM SOUTH AFRICA
TSCD925 THE KING’S MUSICIANS: ROYALIST MUSIC OF BUGANDA-UGANDA
TSCD927 OUT OF CUBA: LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC TAKES AFRICA BY STORM
TSCD928 BLOWERS FROM THE BALKANS: CLASSIC HISTORIC RECORDINGS OF WIND INSTRUMENTS
TSCD929 SONGS FROM THE STEPPES : KAZAKH MUSIC TODAY
TSCD930 BAGPIPES OF GREECE
TSCD931 WOMEN OF EGYPT 1924-1931: PIONEERS OF STARDOM AND FAME
TSCD935D SONGS OF SURVIVAL – TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF GEORGIA
TSCD936 POETRY AND LANGUID CHARM- SWAHILI MUSIC FROM TANZANIA AND KENYA FROM THE LATE 1920s TO THE 1950s