| Music | Merita Halili, Safiye Ayla, Esma Redzepova, Oum Kalthoum, Hamlet Gonashvili, Carl Linich, Brenna MacCrimmon, Zagnut Orkestar, Slavic Soul Party!, Selim Sesler, Husnu Senlendirici, György Ligeti, Trio Kavkasia, Arditti String Quartet, McCoy Tyner, Igor Stravinsky, The Velvet Underground, Buzzcocks, Kate Bush, The Jam, Captain Beefheart, EmmyLou Harris, Robert Wyatt, The Shaggs, Daniel Lanois, Luminescent Orchestrii, Balkan Beat Box, Lhasa, Eli Fara, Adem Ramadani, Nesho Ajvazi, Kocani Orkestar, Vranski Biseri, Boban Markovic Orkestar, Ali Akbar Khan, Cathy Berberian, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, Le Mystere des voix Bulgares, Mariana Sadovska, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Harry Partch, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, John Cage, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Nirvana, Pete Townshend, David Byrne, MS Subbalakshmi, Kavita Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Geeta Dutt, Asha Bhosle, Charles Ives, Thelonius Monk, Kiran Ahluwalia, Las Rubias del Norte, Anchiskhati Choir, Ornette Coleman, Tristan Sikhuralidze, Bjork, Trio Bulgarka, Joe Maneri, Iannis Xenakis, James Brown, AR Rahman, RD Burman, AC Newman, Nino Rota, Elvis Costello, Olivier Messiaen, Erik Satie, Patti Smith, Natacha Atlas, Cansever, Nicolae Gutsa, Dan Armeanca, Aicha Redouane, Spearhead, Joni Mitchell, Joan Jett, Stevie Wonder, Jason Collett, Leslie Feist, Broken Social Scene, The Beatles, Hüsker Dü, The Four Bags, Claudia Quintet, Slow Six, Last Forever, Chicha Libre, Les Ouiches Lorene, Amalia Rodriguez, Chavela Vargas, Albanian and Georgian polyphony, Epirot clarinet, tapan and zurna, Alan Lomax recordings | | Movies | La Nouvelle Vague and Bollywood | | Books | Anton Chekhov, John Berger, Umberto Eco, Orhan Pamuk, Kurban Said, Alice Munro, Stephen Jay Gould, Teach Yourself language books | | Heroes | Richard Feynman for his curiousity, Orhan Pamuk for his courage, Madhuri Dixit for her grace. |
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