I consume lots of radio using the internet and all instrumental bands aren’t very common (songs without lyrics), but today I heard a very cool light rock all instrumental song. Do you guys have those bands and are those visible on media ?
Thks

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  1. Generally only genre specific and in genre specific or niche program stations like classical or jazz radios. General chart radios hardly play instrumental music unless some electronic song without vocals is a huge hit.

  2. When it comes to music without any singing it’s more common to hear edm/trance on the radio. Just a few on most channels, while other channels play a lot of trance and edm.

  3. Instrumental music is common in traditional music so any Irish traditional bands like [The Gloaming](https://youtu.be/y2R-v3hu5-4) or
    [the Chieftans](https://youtu.be/mpkrr0-qut4) as examples of some popular ones
    will generally have pure instrumental sets. Irish music is the most common form pure instrument based music would appear in the media and then there’s radio shows that play jazz and classical music etc also

  5. In Finland there is a music style called [*”rautalanka”*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rautalanka) – “iron wire”, which started in early sixties, inspired by such bands as The Shadows and The Ventures and has lived under the surface since then. Typically the songs are “rock” versions of some old Finnish schlager songs or even traditional folk songs. It’s mostly instrumental but sometimes they may have also vocalists. It’s rarely played in the radio except in some oldies channels but more commonly in restaurants and festivals.

    * [The Sounds – “Emma” 1963](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAqVxVBzxU)
    * [Laika and the Cosmonauts – “Kiiriminna”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDEgeFTcfRQ)
    * [The Youngers – “Ievan polkka – Ieva’s polka”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGCucD28gwY)
    * [Eva and the Tones – “Paratiisi”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-My12J1S03U)
    * [Savages “High Heels (Ranskalaiset korot)”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wm_SgmIlxk)

  6. Not so common but we had Dead Combo an amazing instrumental duo. It wasn’t so common to hear them on the most mainstream radios but some national radios, the more alternative ones, used to play them.

    Unfortunatelly, Pedro Gonçalves, half of the duo, passed away a few weeks ago with cancer and his loss was very felt. They are two great musicians, they’re music is incredible and was a easy to like guy. Such a shame. Had an amazing time watching them live many times.

  7. Not a native German here and I barely listen to (terrestrial) radio these days. (I do listen to a lot of podcasts and stream radio from my home country, but…)

    I’d imagine a certain of krautrock electro sort of stuff gets played on some niche channels, but I am not really sure. A lot of it is instrumental, or the vocals are so washed out and ‘background’ that it might as well be. Of course, there’s classical and jazz.

  8. Very common. Scottish people love traditional music with bagpipes, fiddles, violins, acordions, harps etc.

    There are whole stations just for instrumentals.

    Edit: Someone below talked about Ireland having the same thing, this is because the style of music comes from Gaelic culture.

  10. They will certainly be there, but they are not very popular, they only play songs on the radio.

  11. Instrumental music is very common in the traditional music scene, even in bands with vocalists, quite often there’ll be instrumental album tracks and in concert sets.

  12. of the main radios, only Antena 3 dares to do it

    the most famous artists must be Dead Combo, Bruno Pernadas and Orelha Negra

  15. Catalonia has a specific type of instrumental band called [cobla](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Cobla_de_1909.jpg), with native instruments such as the [flabiol](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Flabiol_Sans.png), [tamborí](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Tambor%C3%AD%2C_segle_XIX%2C_fons_del_Museu_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_de_Barcelona.jpg), the [tible](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Llu%C3%ADs_Pujals_-_Tible.jpg), a [tenora](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Tenora%2C_Andreu_Turon.jpg) (a modern and local evolution of the shawn), plus trumpets, trombones, the double bass, and another local one, a [fiscorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Fiscorn%2C_fons_Museu_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_de_Barcelona.jpg). They are an evolution of the old medieval minstrel bands, which were reformed by Catalan inventors in the 19th century, as they came up with the tenora and the modern number of instruments.

    They play the traditional Catalan dance, [La Sardana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnV1vGzMyw) (“the most beautiful dance that is done and undone”), the most famous one being [la Santa Espina](https://youtu.be/1MSp0JRm86o?t=54).

  16. There isn’t very many instrumental acts or music from here (this is literally the land of song, after all). Sorry to disappoint.

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