I just got a working cassette player again so I've been listening to a lot of stuff I'd forgotten about or not heard at all before the last one broke.

I've just been listening to a cassette "Hi Ere Dantzari" (1991) by the Basque band Oskorri. Your question prompted me to look them up on the web, and they've done a LOT more than I'd imagined, and there's some significant scholarship behind their performances.

Before that I was listing to Hungarian music, as I'm going on a music and dance camp for it this summer. "Be sok eso, be sok sar" (So much rain, so much mud), by the Csik Zenekar Kecskemet, was the last. There are many more people doing that sort of music now (from the Csango Hungarian speaking minority in Romania) - the cassette is from 1992 when the Csango areas were only just accessible again after the fall of Ceausescu.

Despite using similar instruments, they're very different. I think I'll stick with Hungarian stuff for the next few weeks to keep my ears attuned to pentatonic thinking, but I'll certainly come back to Oskorri.

I also listened to the early-90s English world music band "3 Mustaphas 3" on the cassette player yesterday. Something like the Incredible String Band doing the Balkans. They haven't worn all that well.