August 2018 Chart

1. Ammar 808
Maghreb United
Glitterbeat (13↑)

2. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram (1↓)
3. Dobet Gnahoré – Miziki – LA Café (3=)
4. Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar – Bendigedig (2↓)
5. Samba Touré – Wande – Glitterbeat (5=)
6. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (4↓)
7. Toko Telo – Diavola – Anio (7=)
8. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró – Scubidu (39↑)
9. Bombino – Deran – Partisan (12↑)
10. Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani – Delâshena – Buda Musique (6↓)

11. Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani (11=)
12. Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgő – Szikra – Vetnasj (15↑)
13. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network (18↑)
14. Invisible System – Bamako Sessions – Riverboat / World Music Network (20↑)
15. Rahim AlHaj Trio – One Sky – Smithsonian Folkways (17↑)
16. Nancy Vieira – Manhã Florida – Lusafrica (9↓)
17. Koum Tara – Koum Tara – Odradek (8↓)
18. Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light – Kravenworks (24↑)
19. Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Avo Kanto – Satélite K (-)
20. Solju – Ođđa Áigodat – Bafe’s Factory (14↓)

21. Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Marea – Nauna Cantieri Musicali (-)
22. Chancha Vía Circuito – Bienaventuranza – Wonderwheel (-)
23. V.A. – Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central & East African Music – Dust-to-Digital (36↑)
24. Mercedes Peón – Déixaas – Mercedes Peón / Altafonte (22↓)
25. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (-)
26. Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares – Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana – Tumi (-)
27. Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes – Bêdawîtî – Ahenk Müzik (-)
28. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés (16↓)
29. Vingefang – Tidens Ekko – GO’ Danish Folk (-)
30. Red Baraat – Sound the People – Rhyme & Reason (-)

31. Don Kipper – Seven Sisters – Riverboat / World Music Network (21↓)
32. Yossi Fine & Ben Aylon – Blue Desert – Blue Desert (-)
33. Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana – Argento – Visage (-)
34. RAM – August 1791 – Willibelle (-)
35. Sväng – Sväng Plays Tango – Galileo Music (-)
36. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik (-)
37. Agricantus – Akoustikòs Vol. 1 – CNI (31↓)
38. Hugh Masekela – Masekela 66-76 – Wrasse (27↓)
39. Malagasy Guitar Masters – Volo Hazo – Buda Musique (25↓)
40. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways (29↓)

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Current members of the TWMC panel: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), 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), 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), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ).