The Year 2019
The top ten colour print
The top 150
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