This is an amazing thread!!! Thanks, everybody. Mine is an Andean musica with lots of different guitar-like things and quick vocals in Spanish. Musica de los llaneros, or South American herders.
I went to Venezuela to photograph birds and plants and animals and almost die on a cable car system.
This stuff was on the radio everywhere. During the rule of Hugo Chavez, there were billboards everywhere that were blobbed with cow poop. The people and their world endlessly entranced me. Every bit of my skin is electrified and I'm near tears listening again: