Why Haven’t I Known South Asian Rock and Pop?

Do you listen to the music of how many countries?

By chance I found Singaporean music on the internet, and I was excited when I first listened to it.

I felt good influence from UK music on it, maybe because it's English speaking country.

https://www.noisesingapore.com/music-player?featured=2

I got the link from a website "Noise Singapore", an art and music festival there.

Despite the wealth of music on the internet, we tend to listen to music of our own countries and from specific countries such as the US and the UK. Aside from those, I know of only a few musicians from several other countries. Off the top of my head, for example, Iceland, France, Germany, Argentine, Nigeria, Cuba, Canada, Denmark, Spain but The Kings of Spain is from US, Korea, and Taiwan.

Oh? I could list countries more than I expected.

However, I have listened to far fewer songs from each country compared to American, British and Japanese ones.

I sometimes pity that, although we already have great tools to overcome any distance, we are only introduced to limited music. I just want to listen good music regardless of nationality. As far as I know, recent South Asian music is never brought to Japan except in the very narrow avant-garde field.

Not only there is a lack of introduction, but also we tend to look for what is familiar to us.

The way to meet new music might be too narrow considering the variety of music in the world.

We need to venture outside our ways to chance encountering new music once in a while.

I'm glad to meet Singaporean music unexpectedly.