lol. you should try hector zazou's "songs from the cold seas". absolute genius - it's taking traditional songs (world music, that's not that ghastly fucking hi-life twangly guitar from mali) from countries surrounding the - yes, you've guessed it - cold seas. so, there's scandanavia stuff, inuit, newfoundland, scotland, siberia, japan, etc, etc. and different artists sing/perform them (zazou is a producer/aranger): siouxsie, bjork, john cale, various people i've never heard of...
one of my favourite albums. in fact, i think i'll put it on right now!
(is there any way i could share it with you? iTunes, or similar? if not, i could send it).