January 2019 Chart

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twmc11. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (29↑)

2. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (3↑)
3. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC (1↓)
4. Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (-↑)
5. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (2↓)
6. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (10↑)
7. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (-↑)
8. Ukandanz – Yeketelale – Buda Musique (-↑)
9. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (6↓)
10. Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça – Glitterbeat (4↓)

11. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (8↓)
12. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (5↓)
13. Rodopi Ensemble – Thraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music (-↑)
14. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (11↓)
15. V.A. – Nostalgique Porto Rico: Plenas, guarachas, boléros et chansons jíbaras, 1940-1960 – Buda Musique (-↑)
16. Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (-↑)
17. Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve (-↑)
18. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (12↓)
19. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Music (21↑)
20. Shooglenifty & Dhun Dhora – Written in Water – Shoogle (-↑)

21. Dawda Jobarteh – I Met Her by the River – Sterns Music (16↓)
22. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (37↑)
23. Moulay Ahmed El Hassani – Atlas Electric – Hive Mind (-↑)
24. Domna Samiou – Music from Greece – Caprice (27↑)
25. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (15↓)
26. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree (7↓)
27. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (17↓)
28. Ali Hassan Kuban – From Nubia to Cairo – Piranha (-↑)
29. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (13↓)
30. Debashish Bhattacharya, Hubert Zemler & Wojtek Traczyk – Joy!Guru – Unzipped Fly (-↑)

31. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda – El Ndjoum – Airfono (14↓)
32. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (30↓)
33. Takula – Takula – XA Music (24↓)
34. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (9↓)
35. Abdesselam Damoussi and Nour Eddine – Jedba: Spiritual Music from Morocco – ARC Music (-↑)
36. Dobranotch – 20 Years – CPL-Music (31↓)
37. Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl (-↑)
38. Delgres – Mo Jodi – Jazz Village (28↓)
39. Winston Mcanuff & Fixi – Big Brothers – Chapter Two / Wagram (22↓)
40. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (24↓)

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Founder members and administrators: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US).

Current Members: 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), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU).

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Urkult

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Festival’s name: Urkult

Country: Sweden

Location: Näsåker

Start date: 1995-08-03

End date: 2017-08-05

Comments:
The first weekend in August, the fire will be lit next to Nämforsen when the folk and world music festival Urkult will be launched annually since 1995. A festival with endless love where the whole family can enjoy themselves.

The Urkult Festival is beautifully located next to Nämforsen in Näsåker, Sollefteå municipality. Here visitors come to enjoy music, dance, joy and love in addition to the landscape.

Etnosur

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Festival’s name: ETNOSUR

Country: Spain

Location: Alcalá la Real (Jaén)

Start date: 2018-07-20

End date: 2018-07-22

Comments:
Etnosur is a multicultural festival that has been celebrated for more than twenty years in Alcalá la Real (Jaén) during the month of July. It is characterized by hosting a program of activities totally free and for all ages that includes music, literature, forum, workshops, gastronomy, movies…

BU Global Music Festival

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Festival’s name: BU Global Music Festival

Country: United States

Location: Boston

Start date: Friday, October 5, 2018

End date: Saturday, October 6, 2018

Comments:
The BU Global Music Festival is a free, annual celebration of world music, featuring more than a dozen international and local musicians.

BU Global Music Festival Goals:
• Celebrate and enhance BU‘s Global Identity
• Celebrate the music and culture of immigrant communities in the greater Boston area
• Educate our students and the general community about world music and culture
• Build community and good will between BU and the greater Boston region
• Welcome a broad cross-section of community members to BU
• Present high-quality global music and engaging performances to the region for free

Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival

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Festival’s name: Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival

Country: South Korea

Location: Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do

Start date: 3/October/2018

End date: 7/October/2018

Comments: Korea’s main event for traditional music and, since 2011, world music. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Songlines listed Jeonju Sori Festival among the World’s Best 25 International Festivals, the only Asian festival in the list.

Fira Mediterrània de Manresa

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Festival’s name: Fira Mediterrània de Manresa

Country: Spain

Location: Manresa

Start date: 04/10/2018

End date: 07/10/2018

Comments:
Fira Mediterrània de Manresa is a performing arts fair rooted in Mediterranean tradition. It has two main areas of focus: popular culture (based on elements that include the transfer of heritage, the crossover between contemporary creation and traditional regional culture, participation and the increase of the social foundations of culture) and world music and folk (traditional or contemporary music that is connected to its local region, with special emphasis on the Mediterranean).

It has been held every year since 1998 and has become a setting for exchange professionals that sell and buy productions.

Best of 2018

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BEST ALBUM OF 2018
Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani

BEST OF NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST 2018
Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani

BEST TRANSREGIONAL ALBUM 2018
Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar – Bendigedig

BEST OF SUBSAHARAN AFRICA 2018
Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram

BEST OF EUROPE 2018
El Naán – La Danza de las Semillas – El Naán

BEST OF ASIA (CENTRAL & EAST) & PACIFIC 2018
Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network

BEST OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 2018
Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways

BEST OF SOUTH AMERICA 2018
Son Palenque – Kutu Prieta pa Saranguiá – Palenque

BEST COMPILATION 2018
V.A. – Chikhates & Chioukhs de l’Aïta: Anthologie – Atlas Azawan

TWMC 2018 TOP 100

TWMC BEST OF 20181. Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani
2. Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar – Bendigedig
3. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram
4. El Naán – La Danza de las Semillas – El Naán
5. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat
6. Gabacho Maroc – Tawassol – 10h10 / Cristal
7. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees
8. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley
9. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music
10. Samba Touré – Wande – Glitterbeat

11. Boubacar Traoré – Dounia Tabolo – Lusafrica
12. 3MA: Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi, Rajery – Anarouz – Six Degrees
13. Toko Telo – Diavola – Anio
14. Koum Tara – Koum Tara – Odradek
15. TootArd – Laissez Passer – Glitterbeat
16. Dobet Gnahoré – Miziki – LA Café
17. Nancy Vieira – Manhã Florida – Lusafrica
18. Djénéba & Fousco – Kayeba Khasso – Lusafrica
19. Samurai Accordion – Te – Visage Music
20. Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani – Delâshena – Buda Musique

21. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network
22. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés
23. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Black Times – Srtrut
24. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways
25. Son Palenque – Kutu Prieta pa Saranguiá – Palenque
26. Bombino – Deran – Partisan
27. Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgő – Szikra – Vetnasj
28. Efrén López, Stelios Petrakis, Bijan Chemirani – Taos – Buda Musique
29. Júlio Pereira – Praça do Comércio – Tradisom
30. Maya Youssef – Syrian Dreams – Harmonia Mundi

31. Solju – Ođđa Áigodat – Bafe’s Factory
32. Malagasy Guitar Masters – Volo Hazo – Buda Musique
33. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik
34. Elena Ledda – Làntias – S’Ard Music
35. Sara Tavares – Fitxadu – Sony Music Portugal
36. Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça – Glitterbeat
37. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat
38. Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light – Kravenworks
39. Femi Kuti – One People One World – Knitting Factory
40. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music

41. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró – Scubidu
42. Gaiteiros de Lisboa – A História – Uguru
43. Saz’iso – At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song – Glitterbeat
44. Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband – Es:Sensual – Otá
45. Kapela Maliszów – Wiejski Dżez – Unzipped Fly
46. BKO – Mali Foli Coura – Buda Musique
47. Chancha Vía Circuito – Bienaventuranza – Wonderwheel
48. Okra Playground – Ääneni Yli Vesien – Nordic Notes
49. Eva Salina & Peter Stan – Sudbina: A portrait of Vida Pavlović – Vogiton
50. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna

51. Sonido Gallo Negro – Mambo Cósmico – Glitterbeat
52. Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan – World Circuit
53. Gili Yalo – Gili Yalo – Dead Sea
54. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World
55. Anouar Brahem – Blue Maqams – ECM
56. Rahim AlHaj Trio – One Sky – Smithsonian Folkways
57. Invisible System – Bamako Sessions – Riverboat / World Music Network
58. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC Records
59. Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares – Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana – Tumi
60. Sopa de Pedra – Ao Longe Já Se Ouvia – Sopa de Pedra

61. 47Soul – Balfron Promise – Cooking Vinyl
62. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa
63. Don Kipper – Seven Sisters – Riverboat / World Music Network
64. WoWaKin – Kraj za Miastem – WoWaKin
65. Yossi Fine & Ben Aylon – Blue Desert – Blue Desert
66. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe
67. Yiddish Glory – The Lost Songs of World War II – Six Degrees
68. V.A. – Chikhates & Chioukhs de l’Aïta: Anthologie – Atlas Azawan
69. Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana – Argento – Visage
70. Red Baraat – Sound the People – Rhyme & Reason

71. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree
72. Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles – Glitterbeat
73. Goran Bregović – Three Letters from Sarajevo, Opus 1 – Decca / Wrasse
74. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song
75. Indialucia – Acatao – CM
76. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino – Canzoniere – Ponderosa Music
77. Brenda Navarrete – Mi Mundo – Alma
78. Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes – Bêdawîtî – Ahenk Müzik
79. Cimbalom Brothers – Testvériség / Brotherhood – Fonó Budai Zeneház
80. Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma – Lunar – Labyrinth

81. V.A. – Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central & East African Music – Dust-to-Digital
82. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case
83. Orquesta Akokán – Orquesta Akokán – Daptone
84. Park Jiha – Communion – tak:til / Glitterbeat
85. Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Marea – Nauna Cantieri Musicali
86. Sväng – Sväng Plays Tango – Galileo Music
87. V.A. – I’m Not Here to Hunt Rabbits – Piranha
88. Mercedes Peón – Déixaas – Mercedes Peón / Altafonte
89. Opium Moon – Opium Moon – Be Why Music
90. Mehmet Polat – Ageless Garden – Aftab

91. Amélia Muge & Michales Loukovikas – Archipelagos-Passagens – AM-ML
92. Okonkolo – Cantos – Big Crown
93. Toto Bona Lokua – Bondeko – Nø Førmat!
94. Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Avo Kanto – Satélite K
95. Bao Sissoko, Mola Sylla & Wouter Vandenabeele – Tamala – Muziekpublique
96. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music
97. Guy One – #1 – Philophon
98. Saeid Shanbehzadeh – Pour-Afrigha – Buda Musique
99. Brigan – Rua San Giacomo – Marocco Music
100. Dirtmusic – Bu Bir Ruya – Glitterbeat

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Founder members and administrators: Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)

Current Members: 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), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU)

December 2018 Chart

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twmc11. Afro Celt Sound System
Flight
ECC (11↑)

2. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (1↓)
3. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (4↑)
4. Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça – Glitterbeat (3↓)
5. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (7↑)
6. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (2↓)
7. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree (10↑)
8. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (5↓)
9. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (9=)
10. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (19↑)

11. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (20↑)
12. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (15↑)
13. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (6↓)
14. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda – El Ndjoum – Airfono (27↑)
15. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (22↑)
16. Dawda Jobarteh – I Met Her by the River – Sterns Music (17↑)
17. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (18↑)
18. Cimbalom Brothers – Testvériség / Brotherhood – Fonó Budai Zeneház (13↓)
19. Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles – Glitterbeat (16↓)
20. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (24↑)

21. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Music (31↑)
22. Winston Mcanuff & Fixi – Big Brothers – Chapter Two / Wagram (-↑)
23. Moulay Ahmed El Hassani – Atlas Electric – Hive Mind (-↑)
24. Takula – Takula – XA Music (-↑)
25. Delgres – Mo Jodi – Jazz Village (28↑)
26. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (25↓)
27. Domna Samiou – Music from Greece – Caprice  (-↑)
28. Harouna Samake – Kamale Blues – One World (32↑)
29. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (-↑)

30. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (35↑)
31. Dobranotch – 20 Years – CPL-Music (-↑)
32. Sekou Bah – Soukabbè Mali – Clermont Music (21↓)
33. Kalàscima – K – Ponderosa Music & Art (-↑)
34. Vivalda Dula – Dula – Vivalda Dula Music (-↑)
35. Okonkolo – Cantos – Big Crown (26↓)
36. Ann O’aro – Ann O’aro – Cobalt / Buda Musique (30↓)
37. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (-↑)
38. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat (12↓)
39. Moussu T e lei Jovents – Opérette Volume 2 – Manivette (38↓)
40. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (34↓)

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Founder members and administrators: Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES)

Current Members: 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), Chen Hanzi (CN).

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November 2018 Chart

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twmc11. SANS
Kulku
Cloud Valley (2↑)

2. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (1↓)
3. Bixiga 70 – Quebra Cabeça – Glitterbeat (-↑)
4. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (-↑)
5. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (40↑)
6. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (7↑)
7. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (-↑)
8. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik (8=)
9. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (30↑)
10. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree (-↑)

11. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC Records (-↑)
12. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat (3↓)
13. Cimbalom Brothers – Testvériség / Brotherhood – Fonó Budai Zeneház (16↑)
14. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways (9↓)
15. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (-↑)
16. Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles – Glitterbeat (20↑)
17. Dawda Jobarteh – I Met Her by the River – Sterns Music (-↑)
18. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (-↑)
19. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (-↑)
20. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (-↑)

21. Sekou Bah – Soukabbè Mali – Clermont Music (22↑)
22. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (29↑)
23. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network (5↓)
24. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (34↑)
25. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (15↓)
26. Okonkolo – Cantos – Big Crown (36↑)
27. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda – El Ndjoum – Airfono (-↑)
28. Delgres – Mo Jodi – Jazz Village (-↑)
29. Alba Griot Ensemble – The Darkness Between the Leaves – Riverboat / World Music Network (31↑)
30. Ann O’aro – Ann O’aro – Cobalt / Buda Musique (35↑)

31. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Music (-↑)
32. Harouna Samake – Kamale Blues – One World (19↓)
33. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram (16↓)
34. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (17↓)
35. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (-↑)
36. Opium Moon – Opium Moon – Be Why Music (24↓)
37. Jaune Toujours – Europeana – Choux de Bruxelles (32↓)
38. Moussu T e lei Jovents – Opérette Volume 2 – Manivette (-↑)
39. Antonio Castrignanò – Aria Caddhipulina – Ponderosa (-↑)
40. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés (14↓)

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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), Chen Hanzi (CN).

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October 2018 Chart

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twmc11. Vigüela
A Tiempo Real
ARC Music (8↑)

2. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (5↑)
3. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat (2↓)
4. Samba Touré – Wande – Glitterbeat (1↓)
5. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network (4↓)
6. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram (3↓)
7. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (-↑)
8. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik (21↑)
9. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways (20↑)
10. V.A. – Two Niles To Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan – Ostinato (-↑)

11. Chancha Vía Circuito – Bienaventuranza – Wonderwheel (9↓)
12. Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light – Kravenworks (7↓)
13. Yossi Fine & Ben Aylon – Blue Desert – Blue Desert (19↑)
14. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés (18↑)
15. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (6↓)
16. Cimbalom Brothers – Testvériség / Brotherhood – Fonó Budai Zeneház (-↑)
17. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (23↑)
18. Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares – Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana – Tumi (17↓)
19. Harouna Samake – Kamale Blues – One World (-↑)
20. Stella Chiweshe – Kasahwa: Early Singles – Glitterbeat (-↑)

21. Sväng – Sväng Plays Tango – Galileo Music (34↑)
22. Sekou Bah – Soukabbè Mali – Clermont Music (-↑)
23. Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes – Bêdawîtî – Ahenk Müzik (26↑)
24. Opium Moon – Opium Moon – Be Why Music (29↑)
25. Red Baraat – Sound the People – Rhyme & Reason (12↓)
26. Bombino – Deran – Partisan (13↓)
27. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró – Scubidu (10↓)
28. Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana – Argento – Visage (27↓)
29. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (-↑)
30. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (-↑)

31. Alba Griot Ensemble – The Darkness Between the Leaves – Riverboat / World Music Network (-↑)
32. Jaune Toujours – Europeana – Choux de Bruxelles (-↑)
33. Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami – Melodic Circles – ARC Music (27↓)
34. Catarina Dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (-↑)
35. Ann O’aro – Ann O’aro – Buda Musique (-↑)
36. Okonkolo – Cantos – Big Crown (-↑)
37. Markus & Shahzad – Tumba ! – Dionysiac Tour (39↑)
38. Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani (24↓)
39. Nancy Vieira – Manhã Florida – Lusafrica (25↓)
40. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (-↑)

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Current members of the TWMC panel: Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), 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), Chen Hanzi (CN).

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