The Year 2019

World Music Charts Europe,

THE YEAR 2019
The top 200 of 746 nominated CDs
Compiled by Johannes Theurer on behalf of the World Music Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

1 PLACELESS KKV
Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat, Kronos Quartet Iran/USA

2 MIRI Outhere
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Mali

3 REBUJO Mais um Discos
Dona Onete Brazil

4 ECHOES OF JAPAN Mais um Discos
Minyo Crusaders Japan

5 UN AUTRE BLANC Naive Records
Salif Keita Mali

6 KHARIFA Contre-Jour
Habib Koite Mali

7 MRAK Fono
Boban Markovic Orkestar Serbia

8 LAJKO FELIX & VOLOSI Fono
Lajko Felix & Volosi Hungary/Poland

9 JAMBU E OS MITICOS SONS DA AMAZONIA Analog Africa
various artists Brazil

10 FUTURE FLORA sdban Ultra
Black Flower Belgium

11 SER Urna Chahar-Tugchi
Urna & Kroke China (Mongolia)/Poland

12 UM CORPO NO MUNDO Sterns / YB Music
Luedji Luna Brazil

13 JOY Bendigedig
Aka Trio Italy/Senegal/Brazil

14 THE CAPITALIST BLUES Jazz Village
Leyla McCalla USA

15 CELIA Universal
Angelique Kidjo Benin/USA

16 GECE Glitterbeat
Altin Gün Netherlands/Turkey

17 PURA VIDA Galileo MC
Misia Portugal

18 EL HAJAR Nur Publishing / Orchard
Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis Israel

19 DE PALENQUE A MATONGE Zephyrus
Dizzy Mandjeku & Ale Kuma Congo/Colombia

20 SAHARI Glitterbeat
Aziza Brahim Western Sahara/Spain

21 AMINA Muziekpublique
Refugees for Refugees Belgium/various

22 BLACK TENERE Glitterbeat
Kel Assouf Niger/Belgium

23 TANGO ARGENTINO TODAY ACT
El Afronte Orquesta Tipica Argentina

24 RÜYA - DREAM OF ANATOLIA ARC
Olcay Bayir Turkey /UK

25 RECIFE 19 Sterns
DJ Dolores Brazil

26 GAKTI Heilo/Grappa
Vassvik Norway (Sapmi)

27 THE EXORCISM OF A SPINSTER Riverboat
Hope Masike Zimbabwe

28 GOD IS NOT A TERRORIST Glitterbeat
Ustad Saami Pakistan

29 FROM NUBIA TO CAIRO Piranha
Ali Hassan Kuban Egypt

30 MAR NEM SZEDÜLÖK / ROLLING BACK Fono
Parno Graszt Hungary

31 ASSU Bafe's Factory
Ulla Pirttijärvi, Harald Skullerud, Olav Torget Finland/Norway (Sami)

32 WAITING FOR THE DAWN KKV
Ooldouz Pouri Iran/Norway

33 SISSOKO & SISSOKO Homerecords
Ballake Sissoko & Baba Sissoko Mali

34 AMANKOR/THE EXILE Riverboat
Tartit Mali

35 I LOVE YOU INNA Clermont
Oumar Konate Mali

36 LAYLET EL BOOREE Glitterbeat
Ifriqiyya Electrique Tunesia/France

37 DERIN DERIN Glitterbeat
Baba Zula Turkey

38 AFRICA SPEAKS Universal
Santana & Buika Spain/USA

39 A UNIVERSE THAT ROASTS BLOSSOMS FOR A HORSE Tak:til/Glitterbeat
Sirom Slovenia

40 REAKCJA MAZOWIECKA / MAZOVIAN ROOTS RE:ACTION Jaro
Warsaw Village Band Poland

41 SABUR Indies Scope
Korjen various

42 SONGS OF OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS Smithsonian Folkways
Our Native Daughters USA

43 GIVE ME WINE Riverboat
Romano Drom Hungary

44 GAIZCA PROJECT Homerecords
Ialma / Manu Sabate / Inaki Plaza / Ciscu Cardona / Nicolas Scalliet Spain (Galicia, Catalonia, Euskadi)

45 ABAN Stonetree
Garifuna Collective Belize

46 SUELTA X Ray
La Yegros Argentina

47 THRAKI: THRACE - THE PATHS OF DIONYSUS ARC
Rodopi Ensemble Greece

48 BIM#1 Worldtourrecords
Benin International Musical (BIM) Benin/France

49 JE SUIS AFRICAIN Naive
Rachid Taha Algeria/France

50 ALLJ BELE A MELYBE / STAND INTO THE DEEP CPL Music/NarRator
Meszecsinka Hungary

51 KAR YAGAR Catapulte/Bongo Joe
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek Turkey/Germany

52 THROUGH THE EYES OF THE EARTH NarRator
Belonoga Bulgaria

53 HERITAGE Jaro
Bulgarian Voices Angelite Bulgaria

54 KIND OF FOLK, VOL 2 NORWAY All Ice Records
Groupa Sweden/Norway

55 THE LONG MARCH Cooking Vinyl
Le Trio Joubran Libanon/Palestine

56 ALTER ETHNO Fusion Embassy
Oratnitza Bulgaria

57 DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM KKV
Daughters of Jerusalem Israel

58 NESKROTENY Hrdza
Hrdza Slovakia

59 COSSACK ATTACK! Molca Records
Cendes Slovakia

60 FROM KOLKATA Bibaka Music
Tita Nzebi Gabon

61 EL MAL QUERER Sony Music Spain
Rosalia Spain

62 BAHAR Riverboat
Umut Adan Turkey

63 1958 No Format
Blick Bassy Cameroun

64 AVANTE DELIRIO Stern's Brazil
Saulo Duarte Brazil

65 BUTTERFLY Odradek
Vassilis Ketentzoglou & Sofia Labropoulou Greece

66 LA FACE CACHEE Sterns
Wuta Mayi DR Congo

67 WE DON'T SHOOT Exil
Dissidenten & Mohamed Mounir Germany/Egypt

68 SMALL ISLAND BIG SONG Small Island Big Song
Small IslandBig Song various

69 BABRA Fono
Babra Hungary

70 KARIN Muziekpublique
Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gultekin Armenia/Turkey

71 DO YOU LOVE ARC
Otava Yo Russia

72 VILDALUODDA / WILDPRINT Bafe's Factory
Vilda Finland

73 INNA DE YARD Chapter Two
Inna de Yard Jamaica

74 UDU CPL
Udu Russia (Buryatia)/Lithuania

75 MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO Slow Walk Music
Alma Afrobeat Ensemble Spain/various

76 RAJATILA / BORDERLINE Bafe's Factory
Tuuletar Finland

77 MYSTIC DANCE Stern's
Amira Kheir Sudan

78 HALI Rockadillo
Piirpauke Finland

79 AFRO GROOVE QUEEN Contre-Jour
Manou Gallo Ivory Coast

80 JDID Crammed Discs
Acid Arab France

81 I MET HER BY THE RIVER Sterns
Dawda Jobarteh Gambia/Denmark

82 PO SLADACH/IN THE FOOTSTEPS Janusz Prusinowski
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Poland

83 DE AYER PARA SIEMPRE Smithsonian
Mariachi Los Camperos USA/Mexico

84 HAITIANOLA Cumbancha
Lakou Mizik Haiti/USA

85 SANTA PLASTICA Les grandes fleuves
Las Hermanas Caronni Argentina

86 WHITE HOLE / FORAT BLANC (not possible to pruchase!!!) Eduard Iniesta
Eduard Iniesta Spain (Catalonia)

87 ISTIKRARLI HAYAL HAKIKATTIR Glitterbeat
Gaye Su Akyol Turkey

88 THE BALKAN AUTUMN Snail
Mostar Sevdah Reunion presents Sreta Bosnia Herzegowina/Serbia

89 SONGS FROM THE BARDO Smithsonian
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith USA/Tibet

90 VOICES OF THE ANCESTORS / SENCU BALSIS Lauska & Auli
Auli Latvia

91 WASALALA Bongo Joe
Madalitso Band Malawi

92 GLASCHU / HOME TOWN LOVE SONG ARC Music
Mary Ann Kennedy UK (Scotland)

93 PHILOS Glitterbeat
Park Jiha South Korea

94 AMADJAR Wedge
Tinariwen Mali

95 TRECE CANCIONS BONITAS Producciones efímeras
German Diaz & Benxamin Otero Spain

96 ORINOCO Cimarron Records
Cimarron Colombia

97 BLUE SILENCE Homerecords
Tristan Driessens & Robbe Kieckens Belgium

98 BADIJA Snailrecords
Marin Jerkunica Croatia

99 MALETIEMPU Fonosfere
Rachele Andrioli & Rocco Nigro Italy

100 #NUNAIROBI - KENYA'S MUSIC HUB Othere
various artists Kenya

101 ALEGRIA E LIBERTA homerecords
Lucilla Galeazzi, Didier Laloy, Ialma, Carlo Rizzo, Maarten Decombel Italy/Spain/Belgium

102 EKERA SBDAN Ultra
Azmari Belgium

103 TANEC STRUN Husliarsky Dom
Miriam Kaiser Trio Slovakia

104 TAUTUMEITAS CPL
Tautumeitas Latvia

105 TELEGRAFY Pavian
Banda Slovakia

106 QUASI TANGO Eclipse Music
Sole Azul Finland

107 BHUMIKA Toronto Tabla Ensemble
Ritesh Das/Toronto Tabla Ensemble Canada

108 OBIAA! Strut
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band Ghana

109 MERCEDES KOLO CPL Music
Dobranotch France/Russia

110 HETKESSÄ Ainia
Teija Niku Finland

111 GREEK FUSION ORCHESTRA VOL.2 Teranga
Kyriakos Sfetsas Greece

112 STRANGE SUITE Riverboat
Ateshkhan Yuseinov & Skiller Bulgaria

113 NYOLC 8 NYOLC SNDG
Söndörgö Hungary

114 CAMINOS Nacion Ekeko
Nacion Ekeko Argentina

115 RUJO Rockadillo
Antti Plaanen Finland

116 PAUANNE Nordic Notes
Pauanne Finland

117 A FOLK DANCER'S JOURNEY Seyir Muzik
Tristan Driessens Belgium/various

118 FORRO POR AI Loa Discos
Serelepe Brazil

119 ODISSEA Finisterre
Bandadriatica Italy

120 WITH LOVE FROM BERLIN Man Recordings
Daniel Haaksmann Germany/various

121 TAILWIND HOME Equus
Equus Australia

122 ELIXIR Home Records
Aurelie Dorzee & Tom Thevns Belgium

123 STRANGE DAYS Whirlwind Recordings
Natacha Atlas Belgium

124 OSPAKIZUN GAUEAN Kantaita
Benito Lertxundi Spain (Basque)

125 TIMES OF MAHARAJAS ARC
Dhoad Gypsies of Rajastahan India

126 GUITAR COLLOQUIUM Isle Music
Innes Watsons UK (Scotland)

127 WHAT HEAT Real World
Bokante & Jules Buckley & Metropole Orkest USA/Netherlands/various

128 JOY!GURU Unzipped Fly Records
Bhattacharya, Traczyk, Zemler India/Poland

129 EN OTROS LUGARES Sounds & Colours Ltd
Santiago Cordoba Argentina

130 OULAD LGHABA ajabu!
Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou Morocco

131 LUME Coratia Records
Merima Kljuco & Jelena Milusic Bosnia & Herzegowina

132 KEUSCHHEIT UND DEMUT IN ZEITEN DER CHOLERA
Sterzinger, Koehldorfer, Schaden Austria

133 LATTITUDES IC Band & Agorila
International Citrus Band various

134 EVERYONE'S JUST WINGING IT AND OTHER FLY TALES Ginger Sounds
Blinky Bill Kenya

135 SIRIUS
Sirius Quartet USA

136 NIAFUNKE Clermont Music
Hama Sankare Mali

137 VIA MMF
Efe Turumaty & Nikola Zaric various

138 STEER BY THE STARS Skipinnish Records
Skipinnish UK (Scotland)

139 QUEBRA-CABECA Glitterbeat
Bixiga 70 Brazil

140 ETKOT, PECTOPAH JA ETNOTEKNOA Nordic notes
Suistamon Sähkö Finland

141 MORE ARRIVING The Leaf Label
Sarathy Korwar India/UK

142 AMADRAN Homerecords
Baba Sissoko Mali

143 HISTORIA NATURAL Glitterbeat
Los Piranas Colombia

144 HARP VS. HARP Act
Edmar Castaneda & Gregoire Maret Colombia/Switzerland

145 ABEG NO VEX Crammed
Ekiti Sound Nigeria

146 NOSTALGIQUE KONGO Buda Musique
various artists DR Congo

147 FENFO 3EME BUREAU / WAGRAM
Fatoumata Diawara Mali

148 TOO BIG TO FAIL Lotus
Madame Baheux Austria

149 RUMBARISTAS Via Lactea
Rumbaristas Spain, Belgium, France, Poland

150 BANTOU MENTALE Glitterbeat
Bantou Mentale DR Congo/France

151 SOFA NarRator
Miramundo Brazil/Italy/Mexico/Spain

152 HUMMUSMAN! PICAP
Biflats Spain(Catalonia)

153 BLINKING LIGHT Tsuumi Sound System
Tsuumi Sound System Finland

154 LE MONDE EST CHAUD Universal
Tiken Jah Fakoly Ivory Coast

155 IBRA Algeventos
Eneida Marta Guinea-Bissau

156 ECHO Galileo
Rasgueo various

157 ABU Homerecords
Abu Senegal/Mali/Belgium

158 FONGOLA transgressive
Kokoko! France

159 TAKULA XA Music Ltd
Takula Malawi/Norway

160 APKA! Som Livre
Ceu Brazil

161 THE SILVER MESSENGERS Galileo MC
Carmen Souza Cape Verde/Portugal

162 VISION DEL AYAHUASCA Barbes records
Los Wemblers de Iquitos Peru

163 SMALLWORLD Westpark
Dallahan UK (Scotland)/Hungary

164 MAMA FUNNY DAY Cumbancha
Sarazino Canada

165 OUMNIYA Naive
Souad Massi Algeria

166 VARIACIJAS CPL Music
Lata Donga Latvia

167 BACK HOME Galileo
Yinon Muallem Rast Ensemble Iraq/Israel

168 HOLLOWBONE Resilient
Katryn Tickell & The Darkening UK

169 BLUE STAGE SESSIONS Third Man Records
Mdou Moctar Niger

170 DNA PIAS
Flavia Coelho Brazil

171 FA Mareproduction/Nakra
Susana Seivane Spain (Galicia)

172 DAA DEE ARC Music
Minyeshu Ethiopia

173 WOLNOSC SERC Karrot Momando
Strojnowy Poland

174 SARABA SUFIYANA Riverboat/Knio Music (?)
Rafiki Jazz UK/various

175 TABLANANDA WMN
Subhasis Bhattacharya India

176 NAATH Gatwich Records
Emmanuel Jal & Nyaruach South Sudan/Kenya

177 VISUMA VIZOSA TUMSA CPL Music
Zeme Latvia

178 SOME OTHER LAND Errogie records
Adam Sutherland UK (Scotland)

179 MANGA Sony Music
Mayra Andrade Cape Verde

180 NAPKEREK Fono
Melinda Balogh Hungary

181 BOSSA E OUTRAS NOVA MGA Record
Grazyna Auguscik & Paulinho Garcia Poland/BRazil

182 DAEGA REK Glitterbeat
Fofoulah UK

183 SLEEPWALKERS Diamusk
Diamusk Bosnia & Herzegovina/Norway

184 EGOLI K7
Africa Express, v.a. South Africa

185 WOMAN SOLDIER Aztec Musique
Morgane Ji Reunion

186 PHILANTROPIQUE Heavenly Sweetness
Guts France/various

187 HERE & THERE Fishbowl
Dimitris Mystakidis Greece

188 MELODIAS DEL SILENCIO Xango
Charivari Trio Netherlands

189 OBABES BEMBUBE 10th District Music
Nobuntu Zimbabawe

190 THE ART OF THE CHINESE GUZHENG ARC
Wu Mengmeng China

191 SEWING MACHINE EFFECTS Jarring Effect
Nola is calling

192 SEMPRE Far Out
Marcos Valle Brazil

193 MAIS BAD Rebel Up
Satanique Samba Trio Brazil

194 KODU Trad Records
Leana & Hartwin Estonia/Belgium

195 DON'T REPLACE ME BY A MACHINE Molpe Music
Trio Abozekry Egypt

196 CALICO SOUL Piranha
Farafi UK/USA

197 EUROPEANA Choux de Bruxelles
Jaune Toujours Belgium

198 FOLKS OF BENGAL: NEELAJ Banglanatak MusiCal
various artists India

199 HISTORY Naive
Youssou N'Dour Senegal

200 MI VERDAD Home Records
Esteban Murillo Spain/Belgium