The Year 2016
The top ten colour print: http://wmce.de/top-10-download.html?file=tl_files/downloads/top-10/2016/YEAR_2016_The%20TOPTEN.pdf
The top 150: http://wmce.de/top-10-download.html?file=tl_files/downloads/top-10/2016/YEAR_2016_top150.pdf
The top 200 of 854 nominated records
1 ABBAR EL HAMADA Aziza Brahim
Glitterbeat Western Sahara/Spain
2 THE WOMAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD (A MULHER DO FIM DO MUNDO) Elza Soares
Mais Um Discos Brazil
3 AZEL Bombino
Partisan Records Niger
4 NÉ SO Rokia Traoré
Nonesuch Mali
5 KONONO NO 1 MEETS BATIDA Konono No1
Crammed Congo/Portugal
6 SENSITIVE SKIN Kimmo Pohjonen
Octopus/Ondine Finland
7 NYN Kristi Stassinopoulou, Stathis Kalyviotis
Riverboat Records Greece
8 HERITAGE Richard Bona & Mandekan Cubano
Qwest/Membran Cameroon/USA/Cuba
9 SPACE ECHO, THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE COSMIC SOUND OF CABO VERDE FINALLY REVEALED Various artists
Analog Africa Cape Verde
10 ARBINA Noura Mint Seymali
Glitterbeat Mauritania
11 ESPERANTO Dimitris Mystakidis
Fishbowl Greece
12 VIENA Värttinä
Westpark Music Finland
13 MEZCLA M.A.K.U. Soundsystem
Glitterbeat USA/Columbia
14 TROPIX Ceu
Six Degrees Brazil
15 TULES MAAS VEDES TAIVAAL Tuuletar
Bafe's Factory Finland
16 SOUND CITY Stefano Saletti & Piccola Banda Ikona
Finisterre Italy
17 THE TAMBOURINE MAN Xabier Diaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
Musicas de Salitre Spain
18 DJELY BLUES Djelimady Tounkara
Label Bleu Mali
19 LEYENDA Ana Alcaide
ARC Spain
20 RIVIERE NOIRE Riviere Noire
CPL Music France/Brazil
21 EVERY SONG HAS ITS END Various artists
Glitterbeat Mali
22 ELEKTRO HAFIZ Elektro Hafiz
Pharaway Sounds Turkey/Germany
23 THIS IS KOLOGO POWER Various artists
Makkum Rec. Ghana
24 LEGEND OF FUNANA Bitori
Analog Africa Cape Verde
25 VELESU Tomas Kocko & Orchestr
Indies Scope Czech Republic
26 KOBANI Ferhat Tunc
Kirkelig Kulturverksted Turkey
27 LIKE A BIRD OF SPIRIT, NOT A FACE Sainkho Namchylak
Ponderosa Siberia
28 ONWARDS TO MARS! Fanfare Ciocarlia
Asphalt Tango Romania
29 FAR FROM HOME Calypso Rose
Because Trinidad
30 MOST JÖTTEM... Lajko Felix
Fono Hungary/Serbia
31 MONISTIC THEORY Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate
Cumbancha USA/Guinea
32 A-H-E-O Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra
Glitterbeat Haiti/Nigeria/France/UK
33 AMERLI Refugees for Refugees
Muziekpublique Belgium/various
34 WA DI YO Lakou Mizik
Cumbancha Haiti
35 KOYA Abou Diarra
Mix et Metisse Mali
36 THE GLOAMING 2 The Gloaming
Real World Ireland
37 MALETAK Kepa Junkera & Sorginak
Fol Musica Spain
38 NAVEGA MUNDOS Las Hermanas Caronni
Les Grands Fleuves Argentina
39 AMAN KATERINA - A TRIBUTE TO PANAYIOTIS TOUNDAS Katerina Tsiridou
Protasis Art Greece
40 ¡VAMOS A GUARACHAR! Orkesta Mendoza & Salvador Duran
Glitterbeat USA/Mexico
41 RENASCENCE Kandia Kouyate
Stern's Mali
42 URGENT JUMPING! EAST AFRICAN MUSIKI WA DANSI CLASSICS 1972-1982 various artists
Stern's Africa various
43 I WILL NOT STOP SINGING Zomba Prison Project
Six Degrees Malawi
44 EAMIRITNI - RIMEBORN Elin Kaven
Nordic Notes Norway
45 SUISTAMO ELECTRICITY Suistamon Sähkö
Kihtinäjärvi Rec Finland
46 RECADOS DE FORA Bonga
Lusafrica Angola
47 TOURISTES Vieux Farka Toure & Julia Easterlin
Six Degrees Mali/USA
48 MERIDIAN 68 DagaDana
Karrot Kommando Poland
49 GUAJIRA + MAS GUAJIRA Eliades Ochoa & Alma Latina
Tumi Cuba
50 BRASS LIKE IT HOT Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra
ARC Macedonia
51 RESCUED TREASURE: LIVE AT GORKI BERLIN Semer Ensemble
Piranha Germany/various
52 HIDDEN BREATH / SAKLI NEFES Burak Malcok
Onearth Turkey
53 ZUKVA Divanhana
ARC Bosnia & Herzegovina
54 TIMO ALAKOTILA & PIANO Timo Alakotila
Akero Finland
55 DVOJKA Damir Imamovic's Sevdah Takht
Glitterbeat Bosnia & Herzegovina
56 ON LOVE AND SCIENCE Zulya and the Children of the Underground
Selfrelease Russia/Australia
57 HERANCA Lura
Lusafrica Cape Verde
58 KOKUMA Gambari Band
Membran Mali
59 THE TRAVELLER Baaba Maal
Marathon Artists Senegal
60 ABOUT KIDS, HIPS, NIGHTMARES AND HOMEWORK Emicida
Sterns Brazil Brazil
61 KHMER ROUGE SURVIVORS: THEY WILL KILL YOU IF YOU CRIE various artists
Glitterbeat Cambodia
62 SAJAT GYUJTES/OWN COLLECTION WORK Buda Folk Band
Fono Hungary
63 LIVE WIRES Söndörgö
Riverboat Hungary
64 CARRY YOUR KIN The Breath
Real World UK
65 WOTAN Estusha
CD Baby Mexico
66 REINA DE TODAS LAS FIESTAS Chico Trujillo
Barbes Chile
67 PALM-WINE MUSIC IN THE 21st Century Koo Nimo
Zaria Music Ghana
68 AT THE EDGE OF THE BEGINNING Idan Raichel
Cumbancha Israel
69 FOLKTRON Oratnitza
Fusion Embassy Bulgaria
70 SUPERNATURAL LOVE Sidestepper
Real World UK/Colombia
71 REY LOJ Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna
Petit indie Chile
72 GYPSY LOVER Faith i Branko
Riverboat UK/Serbia
73 LOVE SONGS VOL.2 Yishak Banjaw
Teranga Beat Ethiopia
74 MULHER DO NORTE Claudia Aurora
Red Orange Portugal
75 MANTRA SESSIONS Bosse Skoglund & Zilverzurf
Diesel Music Sweden
76 VIVA DIASPORA Shantel
Essay Recordings Germany
77 IN STRANGE LANDS - VIERAILLA MAILLA Sampo Lassila Narinkka
Narinkaattori Records Finland
78 CAMALEAO BORBOLETA Graveola
Mais um Discos Brazil
79 LOST IN MALI Various artists
Riverboat Mali
80 12 VOICES OF HAITI various artists
TiCorn Music Haiti/various
81 KORRONTZI DANTZAN Korrontzi
Biga Baga Spain
82 KANAMALU Kimi Djabate
Red Orange Guinea Bissau
83 MANARA Alsarah & The Nubatones
Wonderwheel Sudan/USA
84 TRANSFORMATION Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Flowfish Iran/Germany
85 MUSIQUE DE FRANCE Acid Arab
Crammed France
86 VESEVO Vesevo
AgualocaRecords Italy
87 FAME Orquestra de Jazz de Galicia
Clave Records Spain (Galicia)
88 FEET FIRST Nive & The Deer Children
Glitterhouse Greenland
89 LOGOS Gerardo Nunez & Ulf Wakenius
ACT Spain/Sweden
90 TIKOUNEN Kel Assouf
Igloo Mundo Niger/Tunisia/Belgium
91 OPUS Afenginn
Westpark Music Denmark
92 ILHA D'MELODIA Ceuzany
Lusafrica Cape Verde
93 HÜSN-Ü AVARE Hüsnü Senlendirici
Sony Music Turkey
94 LIVE AT WOMEX BUDAPEST Herczku Agi & Band
Fono Hungary
95 XOSE LOIS ROMERO & ALIBORIA Xose Lois Romero & Aliboria
Noa Lopez Spain (Galicia)
96 EXTRANA Addys Mercedes
Medialuna Cuba
97 FIO DA MEMORIA Luisa Maita
Cumbancha Brazil
98 SENEGAL 70 Various artists
Analog Africa Senegal
99 ESTE INSTANTE Marta Gomez
Aluna Colombia/Spain
100 CALL OF THE BLUES Michael Messer's Mitra
Knife Edge Records UK/India
101 KOMIA Puhti
Nordic Notes Finland
102 KAN ZAMAN Göksel Yilmaz Ensemble
Göksel Yilmaz Netherlands
103 IMARHAN Imarhan
City Slang Algeria
104 MEMORIE DI SALE Radicanto
Arealive Italy
105 MUSIQUE DE NUIT Ballake Sissoko, Vincent Segal
No Format! Mali, France
106 III Bixiga 70
Glitterbeat Brazil
107 BLOODLINE XIXA
Glitterhouse USA
108 IWA Beautiful Nubia and The Roots Renaissance Band
EniObanke Nigeria
109 APOLLO YOU SIXTEEN Karim Baggili
Take the Bus Belgium
110 SABARU Sekou Kouyate
One World Guinea
111 AFRIKA MAMAS Afrika Mamas
ARC South Africa
112 THE YOUNG MAN'S HARP Vieux Kante
Stern's Africa Mali
113 ETHIOPIA -CELEBRATING EMPEROR TEWODROS II Gabriella Ghermandi
ARC Ethiopia/Italy
114 TAABAKU Beautiful Nubia And The Roots Renaissance Band
EniObanke Canada
115 UMBADA Mamadou & Sama Yoon
For Tune Senegal/Poland
116 ANDA Melingo
World Village Argentina
117 MADRE (THE HYPNOTIC DANCE'S THEME) Giuliano Gabriele
iCompany Italy
118 PAT THOMAS & KWASHIBU AREA BAND Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Strut Ghana
119 ENCOUNTERS Jamaican Jazz Orchestra
Zephyrus Belgium
120 COEXIST - LIVE AT POLIN Naxos Orchestra
Milo Records Greece/Syria/Yemen/Poland
121 TURMIO Okra Playground
Sibelius Academy Finland
122 WE ALL BE AFRICANS Idris Ackamoor
Strut
123 GAIA MUSICA VOL.1 DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Tudo Lugar
Mundo Melhor Brazil/India/Indonesia/Mali
124 ANIAN 9 Bach
Real World UK
125 ANGEL SONG Branko Galoic & Skakavac orkestar
Silvox Records Croatia
126 NAVEGA! Moussu T e lei Jovenets
Manivette France
127 COMING HOME Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Strut Ghana
128 A DAY FOR THE HUNTER, A DAY FOR THE PRAY Leyla McCalla
Harmonia Munid Jazz Village USA
129 ALGARABYA La Banda Morisca
Altafonte Spain
130 THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF GHANA PLAY GHANAIAN CLASSICS The National Symphony Orchestra of Ghana
Zaria Music Ghana
131 BEYOND ADDIS VOL.2 Various artists
Trikont Ethiopia
132 AW SA YONE VOL 2 Dieuf Dieul de Thies
Teranga Beat Senegal
133 CAMINO Ialma
Homerecords Spain/Belgium
134 COSMIC UNITY Family Atlantica
Soundway UK/various
135 PRE'VOLUTION Smockey
Outhere Burkina Faso
136 AFRICAN FABRICS Daniel Haaksmann
Man Recordings Germany/South-Africa/Uganda/ et al
137 DIVE HUSY Jitka Suranska Trio
Indies Scope Czech Republic
138 SATRIKA Caci Vorba
Oriente Poland/Ukraine
139 SOUL SOK SEGA - SOUNDS FROM MAURITIUS Various artists
Strut Records Mauritius
140 NAKA Nakany Kante
Slow Walk Music Guinea
141 A THOUSAND CRANES Cigdem Aslan
Asphalt Tango UK/Turkey
142 MIRATGE Rumbamazigha
Taller de Musics Spain/Algeria/Greece
143 THE BEST OF BOSSACUCANOVA Bossacucanova
Six Degrees Brazil
144 SUPAY Cankisou
Indies Czech republic
145 PE DE VENTO A presenca das formigas
CPL Portugal
146 SALUTE TO GAZA Gaza Youth Choir
KKV Palestine
147 THE SOURCE Afro Celt Sound System
ECC
148 MADE IN AFRICA (rel. Nov. 4) The KutiMangoes
Danmark Tramp Records
149 BACK TO FOLK Kerekes Band
Kerekes Band Hungary
150 1000 WATTS Quantic presents Flowering Inferno
Tru Thoughts UK
151 EMANUEL Arja Kastinen
Temps Finland/Norway
152 TERRA MIA Louisa Baileche
Mix et Metisse France
153 MAGNETISMO La Yegros
Soundway Argentina
154 DUB ELEKTRO HAFIZ Elektro Hafiz
Pharaway Sounds Turkey/Germany
155 BALBALU Cheikh Lo
Chapter Two/Wagram Senegal
156 ADSABARA Musicants
Picap Spain
157 KIDAYO Vaudou Game
Hot Casa Records
158 SUKU - YOUR LIFE IS A POEM Nils Kercher
Ancient Pulse Records Germany
159 MORNAS DE CABO VERDE various artists
Lusafrica Cape Verde
160 SPACE DIASPORA Oy
Crammed Switzerland
161 OYOYOY Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Vetnasj Netherlands
162 TRAVELOGUE Teho Majamäki
UduMoodMusic Finland
163 TRI HLASY / THREE VOICES Jitka Suramská & Irén Lovasz & Michal Elia Kamal
Indies Czech. Rep./Hungary/Israel
164 GALANIAS (CANTI DELLE DONNE SARDE) Actores Alidos
Finisterre SardiniaItaly (Sardinia)
165 TANKADI Mamadou Barry & Afro Groove Gang
Label Bleu Guinea
166 NEW VOICES Markku Lepistö Trio
Rapusaaris Rec Finland
167 NORDIC CHORO II Nordic Choro
Zebo Records Finland
168 DEUX VISIONS Francesca Blanchard
Vis-a-Vis USA
169 AMATAGA Te Vaka
Spirit of Play New Zealand
170 FROM BEDLAM TO LENANE Ilaria Graziano, Francseco Forni
Agualoca Italy
171 LUNE DE JADE Guo Gan - Emre Gültekin
Homerecords Belgium/China/Turkey
172 GUY BUTTERY Guy Buttery
Guy Buttery South Africa
173 THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ENGLISH FOLK various artists
ARC UK
174 REVUELTA DANZA PARTY Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra
Girovago Colombia/Canada
175 ROUGH ROMANIAN SOUL Zmei3
Six Degrees Romania
176 CARRETERO Candido Fabre
Tumi Cuba
177 CYBERIA - SIBERIA Sainkho Namchylak
Ponderosa Russia
178 VOSTOK Piccola Orchestra Gagarin
Whatabout Music Italy/Russia/Spain
179 500 YEARS OF NIGHT Quique Escamilla
Quique Escamila Mexico
180 THE '69 LOS ANGELES SESSIONS Fela Ransome Kuti
Kalakuta Sunrise Nigeria
181 ASHOFAK BADEN Tarabband
Kap Syd Iraq/Sweden
182 HYPNOPHONIC Äl Jawala
Jawa France/Germany
183 PANDAEMONIUM GITANO Various artists
Jasha! Records Various
184 WADADA Diamusk
Fjord Sound Bosnia & Herzegovina/Norway
185 WOLNO! Mosaik
Mosaik
186 LIVE IN FATTELIKU Youssou N'Dour et le Super Etoile de Dakar
Real World Senegal
187 HOLOGRAM IMPARATORLUGU Gaye Su Akyol
Glitterbeat Turkey
188 DOBREK BISTRO FEAT. DAVID KRAKAUER Dobrek Bistro feat. Davud Krakauer
DobRecords Austria/USA/Various
189 WHAT ARE THOSE SONGS! Otava Yo
CPL Music Russia
190 SLOR EIVOR
Tutl Faroe Islands
191 EL DIA Mil Santos
Flowfish Colombia/Germany
192 VOJVODJANSKI GAJDASI various artists
Serbia Serbia
193 LABESSE CLUB DJ Click
No Fridge France
194 LIBRARIES ON FIRE Derek Gripper
New Cape Records South Africa
195 HAUSJÄRVI BEAT Päre
Sibelius Academy Finland
196 O TOLJE Beata Bocek
Indies Scope Czech Rep
197 CARNATIC CONNECTION Bollywood Brass Band
Bollywood Brass Band UK
198 TWENTY Bazar Bla
Bazaarpool Sweden
199 NEW ARBERESHE ALBANIAN MUSIC Skanderband
Puglia Sounds Albania
200 DEDICATION TO SYLVIA REXACH Miramar
Barbes Puerto Rico/USA