May 2017 Chart

twmc11. Orchestra Baobab
Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng
World Circuit Records (3↗)


2. Bargou 08Targ – Glitterbeat Records (1↘)
3. Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita Transparent Water – Otá Records / World Village (2↘)
4. MokoombaLuyando – Outhere Records (13↗)
5. TamikrestKidal – Glitterbeat Records (5=)
6. Daymé ArocenaCubafonía – Brownswood Recordings (15↗)
7. Mara ArandaSefarad en el Corazón de Marruecos – Mara Aranda (6↘)
8. Amine & Hamza, The Band Beyond Borders Fertile Paradoxes – ARC Music (7↘)
9. Les Amazones d’AfriqueRépublique Amazone – Real World Records (10↗)
10. Yasmine Hamdan Al Jamilat – Crammed Discs (16↗)

11. Danyèl WaroMonmon – Cobalt / Buda Musique (-↗)
12. TinariwenElwan – Wedge (4↘)
13. Dhafer Youssef Diwan of Beauty and Odd – Okeh Records (29↗)
14. Elida AlmeidaDjunta Kudjer – Lusafrica (35↗)
15. SerendouZinder – Hirustica (29↗)
16. Kazut de TyrJorjuna – Hirustica (36↗)
17. Black Flower Artifacts – Sdban Ultra (32↗)
18. AurelioDarandi – Real World Records (17↘)
19. Ethio Stars | Tukul Band featuring Mulatu AstatkeAddis 1988 – Piranha Records (20↗)
20. King Ayisoba1000 Can Die – Glitterbeat Records (-↗)

21. The Nile Project Jinja – Zambaleta (14↘)
22. L’Orchestre Afrisa International Melanie – Colomotion Records (8↘)
23. Rhiannon Giddens Freedom Highway – Nonesuch Records (23=)
24. Girma Bèyènè & Akalé WubéÉthiopiques 30: Mistakes on Purpose – Buda Musique (18↘)
25. Jupiter & Okwess Kin Sonic – Zamora Label (-↗)
26. Carmen SouzaCreology – Galileo Music (-↗)
27. Vieux Farka Touré Samba – Six Degrees Records (-↗)
28. V.A.Lost in China – Riverboat Records (25↘)
29. Cemîl Qoçgîrî Zalâl – Ahenk Müzik (11↘)
30. Young Iranian Female VoicesSongs in the Mist – Kirkelig Kulturverksted (34↗)

31. Lula PenaArchivo Pittoresco – Crammed Discs (21↘)
32. Kanazoé OrkestraMiriya – Buda Musique (22↘)
33. Oumou SangaréMogoya – Nø Førmat! (-↗)
34. Ulaş Özdemir Traces of Âşik – Buda Musique (-↗)
35. Afrikän ProtokölBeyond the Grid – Abozamé Records (-↗)
36. Red Baraat Bhangra Pirates – Rhyme & Reason Records (-↗)
37. Mamadou Kelly Politiki – Clermont Music (-↗)
38. Maria Kalaniemi & Eero GrundströmSvalan – Åkerö (-↗)
39. Maës, Martin, GruelFeule Caracal – Buda Musique (33↘)
40. Zefiro Torna, Ghalia Benali, Vocalconsort BerlinThe Allegory of Desire: The Song of Songs in Western and Oriental Traditions – Warner Classics (39↘)

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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 Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Husniddin Ato (UZ), 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).

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