WMCE YEAR 2018 Compiled on behalf of the Worldmusic Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) by Johannes Theurer. Copyright by Giftmusic GmbH The top 150 of 748 nominated records

1 FENFO Fatoumata Diawara 3EME BUREAU / WAGRAM 2 ANAROUZ 3MA / Rajery, Driss El Maloumi,Ballake Sissoko Mad Minute Music Madagascar/Morocco/Mali 3 SOAR Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita Bendigedig UK/ 4 LA ALEGRIA Y EL CANTO Marta Gomez Aluna Colombia 5 BU BIR RUYA Dirtmusic Glitterbeat Turkey/USA/Australia 6 WANDE Samba Toure Glitterbeat Mali 7 KAYEBA KHASSO Djeneba & Fousco Lusafrica Mali 8 DUR DUR OF SOMALIA VOL 1&2 Dur-Dur Band Analog Somalia 9 ANGATHIN Monsieur Doumani Monsieur Doumani Cyprus 10 SO CALYPSO! Calypso Rose Because Music Trinidad & Tobago 11 KULKU Sans Cloud Valley UK/Finland/Armenia 12 AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST 2 various artists Analog Africa Benin 13 MAGHREB UNITED Ammar 808 Glitterbeat Tunesia 14 ROMANIMO Lakatos Monika Gryllus Hungary 15 PENDULUM Chung Yufeng Trees Music & Art Republic of China/various 16 MASEKELA '66-'76 Hugh Masekela Wrasse South-Africa 17 JOYS ABOUND Anandi Bhattacharya Riverboat 18 PLAZA FRANCIA ORCHESTRA Plaza Francia Orchestra Because Music 19 Ahlam NES Act France/Algeria/ 20 VISIONS OF SELAM Arat Kilo, Mamani Keita, Mike Ladd Accords Croises France/Mali/USA 21 ISTIKRARLI HAYAL HAKIKATTIR Gaye Su Akyol Glitterbeat Turkey 22 DOUNIA TABOLO Boubacar Traore Lusafrica Mali 23 WIEJSKI DZEZ / VILLAGE JAZZ Kapela Maliszow Unzipped Fly Records Poland 24 ACATAO Indialucia CM Records Poland/Spain/India 25 LAI MASINA ROTAJAS! Auli and Tautumeitas CPL Latvia 26 NE LA THIASS Youssou NDour presente Cheikh NDiguel Lo World Circuit Senegal 27 VOICE OF RESISTANCE Rim Banna Kirkelig Kulturverksted Palestine 28 O PTACICH A RYBACH BraAgas Indies Scope 29 LADILIKAN Trio-Da-Kali and Kronos Quartet World Circuit Mail/USA 30 ÄÄNENI YLI VESIEN Okra Playground Nordic Notes Finland 31 GUERRA Cesare Dell'Anna & Girodibanda 11/8 Music Italy 32 REMAIN IN LIGHT Angelique Kidjo Kravenworks Benin/USA 33 ILMAMOTSAN Mari Kalkun Nordic Notes Estonia 34 ASSIMENTRICO Luis Peixoto Lugre records 35 LAISSEZ PASSER TootArd Glitterbeat Syria 36 D'ALMA Miroca Paris Miroca Paris Production Cape Verde 37 SZIKRA Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgö Amsterdam Klezmer Band NL/Hungary 38 IN TRANSITION Loxandra Ensemble Global Music Network 39 ESPIRAL DE ILUSAO Criolo Sterns Music Brazil 40 ODDA AIGODAT Solju Nordic Notes/Bafe's Finland 41 BLACK TIMES Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Strut Nigeria 42 DEIXAAS Mercedes Peon Altafonte Spain (Galicia) 43 AT LEAST WAVE YOUR HANDKERCHIEF AT ME - THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF SOUTHERN ALBANIANSaz'iso SONGSGlitterbeat Albania 44 KASAHWA - EARLY SINGLES Stella Chiweshe Glitterbeat Zimbabwe 45 7 BILLION Kiran Ahluwalia Kiran Ahluwalia USA 46 QUEBRA-CABECA Bixiga 70 Glitterbeat Brazil 47 MANHA FLORIDA Nancy Vieira Lusafrica Cape Verde 48 NOVILUNIO Redi Hasa & Maria Mazzotta Ginger Sounds Italy/Albania 49 CHANTS MYSTIQUES D'ALGERIE Houria Aichi Accords Croises Algeria 50 BALFRON PROMISE 47Soul Cooking Vinyl UK/Jordania 51 LACO UMBILICAL Lucibela Lusafrica Cape Verde 52 CANZONIERE Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Ponderosa Music Italy 53 WHAT HEAT Bokante & Jules Buckley & Metropole Orkest Real World USA/Netherlands/various 54 RESILIENT Mr.Lif & Brass Menazeri Waxsimile USA 55 I MET HER BY THE RIVER Dawda Jobarteh Sterns Gambia/Denmark 56 YIDDISH GLORY - THE LOST SONGS OF WORLD WAR II Loyko & others Six Degrees various 57 PATAK Üzgin Üver Mana Mana Hungary 58 NORO Xabier Diaz & Adufeiras de Salitre Musicas de Salitre Spain (Galicia) 59 MIZIKI Dobet Gnahore Cafe De La Danse Ivory Coast 60 A PARULLUCCIA Alba l'Alba France(Corsica) 61 THE SOURCE Ali Farka Toure World Circuit Mali 62 THE TURBANS The Turbans Six Degrees UK/various 63 DAA DEE Minyeshu ARC Music Ethiopia 64 ALMAS REBELDES Che Sudaka Cavernicola Argentina/Colombia/Spain 65 MORAVICA Klezmeyers GLM Germany 66 THE DARKNES BETWEEN THE LEAVES Alba Griot Ensemble Riverboat various 67 TAMALA Bao Sissoko, Mola Sylla & Wouter Vandenabeele Muziekpublique Senegal/Belgium 68 MAMBO COSMICO Sonido Gallo Negro Glitterbeat 69 YES Naked NarRator Serbia 70 I'M NOT HERE TO HUNT RABBITS various artists Piranha Botswana 71 BALLEBE: CALLING ALL AFRICANS Hama Sankare Clermont Music Mali 72 A TIEMPO REAL - A NEW TAKE ON SPANISH TRADITION Vigüela ARC Spain WMCE Year 2018 - 2

73 GREEK FUSION ORCHESTRA VOL.1 Kyriakos Sfetsas Teranga Greece 74 MYSTIC DANCE Amira Kheir Stern's Sudan 75 MY INDIAN HEART Manglis Compas Machine MCM Spain/India 76 GILI YALO Gili Yalo Dead Sea Recordings Ethiopia/Israel 77 MES RACINES Sabry Mosbah Accords Croises Tunisia/France 78 OSPAKIZUN GAUEAN Benito Lertxundi Kantaita Spain (Basque) 79 COMMUNION Park Jiha Glitterbeat South Korea 80 TEMET Imarhan City Slang Algeria 81 DERAN Bombino Partisan Records Niger 82 JUJU Piirpauke Rockadillo Finland 83 AMERIKA Dimitris Mystakidis Fishbowl Greece 84 WESELE! Tegie Chlopy Muzika Tradycyjna Poland 85 CLOVEK NI ZVER Katalena Zalozba Pivec Slovenia 86 RADIO KRIOLA: REFLECTIONS ON PORTUGUESE IDENTITY Catarina dos Santos ARC Portugal 87 DISQUES DEBS INTERNATIONAL VOL.1 Les Shupa Shupa D'Haiti Strut Haiti 88 OTROS AIRES PRESENTS BALKAN AIRS Balkan Airs feat. Otros Aires Galileo MC Argentina/ 89 SELO NA OKUKE Kries Riverboat Croatia 90 #1 Guy One Philophon Ghana/Germany 91 ...E LOS LEONS La Mal Coiffee Sirventes France 92 TE Samurai Accordion Visage Music Italy/Spain/Finland/Ireland 93 PO DRUM MOME Eugenia Georgieva Riverboat Bulgaria 94 TAKULA Takula XA Music Ltd Malawi/ 95 137 AVENUE KANIAMA Baloji Bella Union Belgium/DR Congo 96 FOK Kepa Junkera Satelite K. Spain (Basque/Catalan) 97 LA RAIZ ELECTRICA Raul Rodriguez Fol Spain 98 DEUS E MULHER Elza Soares Deck Brazil 99 SVÄNG PLAYS SIBELIUS Sväng Jumi-tuotanto Finland 100 SOUND THE PEOPLE Red Baraat Rhyme and reason USA/India 101 TOOTARD Laissez Passer Glitterbeat Syria/Israel 102 CACHAITO Orlando Cachaito Lopez World Circuit 103 FROM NUBIA TO CAIRO Ali Hassan Kuban Piranha Egypt 104 DEVLA DEVLA Dikanda Kaprol Poland 105 VICTORIA HANNA Victoria Hanna Greedy for best Music Israel 106 AKUSTIKOS Agricantus CNI Italy 107 FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Nina Miranda Six Degrees 108 LABU Sinouj prabro Spain/Iran/Brazil/Bosnia/Tunesia/Niger/Italy 109 DIAVOLA Toko Telo Anio Records Madagascar 110 KRAVA NA OREHU Cinkusi Croatia Records Croatia 111 HOORHAY Bashavel Music Fund Slovakia Slovakia 112 AZULEJOS Populous Wonderwheel Italy 113 SEVEN SISTERS Don Kipper Riverboat UK 114 LIO CANTA CAYMMI Lio Crammed Discs Portugal 115 MARIMBAS DEL PACIFICO Rio Mira AYA Colombia 116 ALERTA CANIBAL Eskorzo Rootsounds Music Spain 117 DIIVAN JÄLJET - SHADOW OF A DIVA Johanna Juhola Johanna Juhola Music Finland 118 TABLANANDA Subhasis Bhattacharya WMN India 119 MAGICADA TYMBALS Roland Schiltknecht & Alan Kushan Mensch Music Switzerland 120 SER Urna & Kroke Urna Chahar-Tugchi Mongolia/Poland 121 A TODA CUBA LE GUSTA Afro-Cuban All Stars World Circuit Cuba 122 INCONTRI LIVE Officina Zoe Kurumuny Italy, various 123 TAWASSOL Gabacho Maroc Cristal Publishing various 124 LEKHFA Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh Moskatell Egypt 125 TAUTUMEITAS Tautumeitas CPL Latvia 126 KI VISZI AT (...) WHO CARRIES LOVE OVER (...) Szirtes Edina Mokus Magneoton Hungary 127 BASTARDOS Tundra Nada Producciones NP/18 Spain 128 ROOTS Almir Meskovic & Daniel Lazar Etnisk musikklubb Bosnia/Serbia 129 BAMAKO SESSIONS Invisible System Riverboat Mali 130 OPERETTE VOL.2 Moussou T e lei Jovenets Manivette France 131 BEDAWITI Cemil Qocgiri & Manuel Lohnes Ahenk Müzik Yapim Turkey 132 TAN LEJOS Beatriz Blanco OBHU Venezuela 133 BLUE MAQAMS Anouar Brahem ECM Tunisia 134 NORDIC RAGA Jyotsna Srikanth, Mats Edén, Dan Svensson & Pär Moberg Riverboat India/Sweden 135 DOS GIGANTES DE LA MUSICA CUBANA Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares Tumi Cuba 136 APOLLO YOU SIXTEEN, PART 2 Karim Baggili Take the Bus Belgium 137 CARIBBEAN BEAT VOL. 19 various artists Oversees various 138 KRAJ ZA MIASTEM WoWaKin WoWaKin/Baba Sound Studio Poland 139 CRUZANDO BORDERS Los Texmaniacs Smithsonian Folkways USA 140 MI VERDAD Esteban Murillo Home Records Spain/Belgium 141 RADYO SIWEL Melissa Laveaux No Format! Canada/Haiti/France 142 LOVE IN AFRICA Kodjovi Kush and Afrospot All Stars Chop Time Music Togo/UK 143 ILJA Anne-Mari Kivimäki Nordic Notes Finland 144 BIG BROTHERS Winston McAnuff & Fixi Chapter two Jamaica/France 145 PARNAS Roger Mas Satelite K. Spain (Cat) 146 WHERE THE GALLEON SANK Kobo Town Stonetree Canada/Trinidad 147 KATTA AME AAVAA? Hilja Grönfors & Latso Dzinta Global Music Centre Finland 148 ALKU/THE BEGINNING Päivi Hirvonen Nordic Notes Finland 149 EL CORO DE MI GENTE Amparanoia Calaverita Spain 150 BALKAN PROJECT Cimbaliband Fono Hungary