FEBRUARY 2016

1 Baaba Maal 11 Sam Lee & Friends The Traveller - Marathon Artists / Palm The Fade in Time - The Nest Collective (2 ) Recordings (- ) 12 Las Hermanas Caronni 2 Shye Ben Tzur, & The Navega Mundos - Les Grands Fleuves (- ) Express Junun - Nonesuch Records (8 ) 13 Bareto Impredecible - World Village (- ) 3 Čači Vorba Šatrika - Oriente Musik (11 ) 14 Oratnitza Folktron - Fusion Embassy (12 ) 4 Lura Herança - Lusafrica (1 ) 15 Michael Messer's Mitra Call of the Blues - Knife Edge Records (- ) 5 Sidestepper Supenatural Love - Real World Records (- ) 16 Dimitris Mystakidis Esperanto - Fishbowl (- ) 6 Dizu Plaatjies and Friends Ubuntu-The Common String - Mountain 17 Kandia Kouyaté Records (7 ) Renascence - Sterns Music (5 )

7 Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin 18 Sahra Halgan Trio Touristes - Six Degrees Records (3 ) Faransiskiyo Somalilan - Buda Musique (13 )

8 Bixiga 70 19 Bayarbaatar Davaasuren III - Glitterbeat Records (9 ) The Art of Mongolian Khöömii (Throat Singing) - ARC Music (- ) 9 L’Attirail La Route Interieure - Les Chantiers 20 Zulya and the Children of the Underground Sonores (4 ) On Love and Science - Zulya and the Children of the Underground (- ) 10 Kreiz Breizh Akademi 5ed Round - Innacor (6 )

Members of the TWMC panel (February 2016 vote): Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (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), 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), Ian Anderson (GB), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Dubi Lenz (IL), Anna Rzhevina(RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), João Flávio Lima (BR), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE)

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