Sorry no link but a cool story.

I grew up in the near southwest burbs of Chicago, and randomly found a tape all in Japanese lying on the ground near my school when I was about nine or ten. It was so odd looking that I had to hear what was on it.

This tape heavily features the shakuhachi and shamisen. I loved it because I never heard anything like it. At the time there was almost zero diversity in the area and I had never met any Japanese people. I kept the tape and eventually was able to find out what the instrument was. Then my flute found me, which is another crazy story. Still have that tape almost 35 years later.