1 Lura Herança Lusafrica (6)
2 Sam Lee & Friends The Fade in Time The Nest Collective (3)
3 Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin Touristes Six Degrees Records (10)
4 L’Attirail La Route Interieure Les Chantiers Sonores (15)
5 Kandia Kouyaté Renascence Stern’s Music (2)
6 Kreiz Breizh Akademi 5ed Round Innacor (-)
7 Dizu Plaatjies and Friends Ubuntu-The Common String Mountain Records (8)
8 Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & The Rajasthan Express Junun Nonesuch Records (-)
9 Bixiga 70 III Glitterbeat Records (1)
10 Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Musique de Nuit Nø Førmat! / Six Degrees Records (11)
11 Čači Vorba Šatrika Oriente Musik (20)
12 Oratnitza Folktron Fusion Embassy (-)
13 Sahra Halgan Trio Faransiskiyo Somaliland Buda Musique (-)
14 Polyversal Souls Invisible Joy Philophon (-)
15 Lemon Bucket Orkestra Moorka Lemon Bucket Orkestra (-)
16 Carles Dénia i La Nova Rimaire L’Home Insomne Comboi Records (4)
17 Griselda Sanderson Radial Waulk Records (17=)
18 Te Vaka Amataga Warm Earth Records (16)
19 Zohar Fresco Tof Miriam Zohar Fresco (18)
20 V.A. Lost in Mali Riverboat / World Music Network (5)
Members of the TWMC panel (January 2016 vote): Araceli Tzigane (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Patrik Lindgren (SE), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T.S. Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Ian Anderson (GB), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Dubi Lenz (IL), Anna Rzhevina(RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), João Flávio Lima (BR), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK)
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