World Music Charts Europe YEAR 2012 Compiled by Johannes Theurer on behalf of the World Music Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) copyright by Giftmusic 2012 The top 150 of 1009 nominated records 1 BOUGER LE MONDE Staff Benda Bilili DR Congo Crammed 2 EL AAIUN AGDAT Mariem Hassan Western Sahara/SpainNubenegra 3 BROTHERS IN BAMAKO Habib Koite - Eric Bibb Mali/USA Contre-Jour 4 BBC 3 - WORLD ROUTES: ON THE ROAD Various Artists various Nascente 5 FATOU Fatoumata Diawara Mali World Circuit 6 HORA KOTA Bonga Angola Lusafrica 7 A CURVA DA CINTURA Arnaldo Antunes, Edgar Scandurra & Toumani Diabate Brazil/Mali Mais Um Discos 8 UTU Värttinä Finland Rockadillo Records 9 RADIO SALONE Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Sierra Leone Cumbancha 10 GREEKADELIA Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis Greece Riverboat/WMN 11 RISING TIDE Mokoomba Zimbabwe Zigzagworld 12 MAVRA FROUDIA Petrakis, Lopez, Chemirani Greece/Spain/Iran Musiepoca 13 KINSHASA SUCCURSALE Baloji Belgium Crammed Discs 14 JAVA Sambasunda Quintet Indonesia Riverboat/WMN 15 NORD Warsaw Village Band Poland/Sweden JARO/Karrot Komando 16 NO NA ORELHA Criolo Brazil Sterns 17 UNIVERSITY OF GNAWA Aziz Sahmaoui France/Morocco Naive 18 TWINKLINGS OF HOPE Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat Iran Kirkelig Kulturverksted 19 MADREPERLA Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana Italy Visage 20 CUMBIA CUMBIA 1&2 Various Artists Colombia World Circuit 21 MUSIC OF CENTRAL ASIA #10 Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route China/Central Asia Smithsonian Folkways 22 THE ORIGINAL SOUND OF CUMBIA Various Artists Colombia Soundway Records 23 LA CANTIGA DEL FUEGO Ana Alcaide Spain ARC 24 ONDATROPICA Ondatropica Colombia Soundway Records 25 SONGS FOR DESERT REFUGEES Various Artists Various Glitterhouse Records 26 THE UNBROKEN SURFACE OF SNOW Andrew Cronshaw UK Cloud Valley 27 O DEUS QUE DEVASTA MAS TAMBEM CURA / THE GOD... Lucas Santtana Brazil Mais um Discos 28 NA VSCHOD R.U.T.A. Poland AKW Karrot Kommando 29 CARAVANA SEREIA BLOOM Ceu Brazil Six Degrees 30 CORAZON Y HUESO Melingo Argentina World Village 31 DERSIM - KIRMANCIYE LAMENTS Ferhat Tunc Turkey Kirkelig Kulturverksted 32 SUMUD Niyaz USA/Iran Six Degrees 33 KELMTI HORRA Emel Mathlouthi Tunisia World Village 34 AKERÖ Maria Kalaniemi, Timo Alakotila Finland Akerö 35 MARINAI, PROFETI E BALENE Vinicio Capossela Italy Ponderosa Music & Art 36 TIENTALAW Zani Diabate et les Heritiers Mali Sterns 37 BATIDA Batida Angola/Portugal Soundway Records 38 THE TEL AVIV SESSION The Toure-Raichel Collective Israel/Mali Cumbancha 39 MEHRAAB Loga Ramin Torkian Iran/Canada Six Degrees 40 TRAVELLER Anoushka Shankar India/Spain Deutsche Grammophon 41 MEYHANE - KAFE AMAN Loxandra Greece Polyphonon Records 42 2011: A SPACE ODYSSEY Cambodian Space Project Cambodia/Austral/FrnceMetal Postcard 43 RADIO MOSKOVA Lepistö & Lehti Finland Aito 44 GROUND OF ITS OWN Sam Lee UK The nest Collective 45 FOLKPOLITIK Stefano Saletti & Piccola Banda Ikona Italy Finisterre 46 NO AMA Nancy Vieira Cape Verde Lusafrica 47 WOLOSI I LASONIOWIE Volosi Poland Unzipped Fly Records 48 PRIMERO AMARILLO DESPUES MALVA Lara Bello Spain,USA Bello 49 EL CORAZON Y EL SOMBRERO Marta Gomez Colombia Aluna 50 FOLILA Amadou et Mariam Mali/France Because 51 MOKUM Amsterdam Klezmer Band Netherlands Essay Recordings 52 LETTERS TO A HOMELAND Hewar Syria/USA Dreyer Gaido 53 TUR SAULITE PERTIES GAJA Ilgi Latvia UPE 54 LA VOIX DE LA REVOLUTION Sory Kandia Kouyate Guinea Sterns 55 DEMONI Kottarashky & the Rain Dogs Bulgaria Asphalt Tango Records 56 EVERYDAY SALAMA Sarazino Ecuador/Algeria Cumbancha 57 BONGO HOTHEADS Jagwa Music Tanzania Crammed Discs 58 SAY AFRICA Vusi Mahlasela South Africa Wrasse 59 KEL TAMASHEQ Terakaft Mali World Village 60 NORDIC WOMAN Various Artists various Nordic Fuuse 61 TARANTA NERA Officina Zoe, v.a. Italy/Mali Irma Records 62 ADUNA Malick Pathe Sow and Bao Sissoko Belgium/Senegal Muziek Publique 63 AMANKE DIONTI Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze Senegal/Germany Obliq Sound 64 SEM NOSTALGIA Lucas Santtana Brazil Mais Um Discos 65 WAIT FOR ME Zita Swoon Group Belgium/various Crammed Discs 66 CATCH-POP STRING-STRONG Catch-Pop String-strong Serbia/Kosovo/Austriacol legno 67 KARTON CITY BOOM Shazalakazoo Serbia Eastblok 68 TRAVESIA Gerardo Nunez Spain ACT Music 69 SOULMOTION Natasa Mirkovic & Nenad Vasilic Bosnia/Serbia/AustriaGalileo MC 70 DESTINY Abdelli Algeria Music&Words 71 DIABLOS DEL RITMO Various Artists Colombia Analog Africa 72 MAKOVECZ TURNE Lajko Felix Serbia Fono 73 TASSILI Tinariwen Mali Anti-Rec/Cooperative Music 74 TOKA INCOGNITA Eda Zari Albania/Germany Intuition 75 SOU LUZ Dona Rosa Portugal Jaro Medien 76 ETNO SLOVENIA 2011: MUSIC ROUTES Various Artists Slovenia Sigic 77 CANIBALISMO Chicha Libre USA Crammed Discs 78 INNOVATION Sekouba Bambino Guinea Lusafrica 79 HE IS No. 1 The Malawi Mouse Boys Malawi Independent Records Ltd 80 THE DESCENDANTS OST Various Artists Hawaii (USA) Sony 81 QUOI D'AUTRE ? Karima Nayt Algeria Ajabu! 82 CONTRADICION Eliseo Parra Spain Nuba Records 83 THE NEW BRAZILIAN MUSIC Vol 4 Various Artists Brazil Brasil Music Exchange 84 P!A Mehmet Akbas Germany/Turkey Kalan Müzik 85 BLACK TARANTELLA Enzo Avitabile Italy cni Music 86 ETHIOPIA SUPER KRAR Krar Collective Ethiopia Riverboat/WMN 87 PRISON DOREE Zoufris Maracas France Wagram/Chapter Two 88 THE BARIBA SOUND Le Super Borgou De Parakou Benin Analog Africa 89 GOLDEN HORNS Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestar Serbia Piranha 90 AAM ZAMEEN: COMMON GROUND Kiran Ahluwalia Canada/India/Mali Avokado 91 SPIRIT RISING Angelique Kidjo Benin Wrasse 92 COCUK HAKLI Kardes Türküler Turkey Kalan 93 POLKA V Frigg Finland Frigg 94 STROM & WASSER FEAT. THE REFUGEES Strom & Wasser feat. The Refugees Germany/Various Traumton 95 PIZZICA INDIAVOLATA Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Italy Ponderosa Music & Art 96 YO Roberto Fonseca Cuba/various World Village/JazzVillage 97 DIAGNOSTIC Ibrahim Maalouf France/Lebanon Mi'ster Productions 98 ETERNO RETORNO Dazkarieh Portugal Galileo MC 99 NDIGAL Karantamba Senegal/Gambia Teranga Beat 100 CONSENTIMENTO Leilia Spain Folmusica 101 CIRCLES IN A SQUARE SOCIETY Boi Akih Netherlands Bromo 102 PORTRAIT - THE MAGICAL VOICE FROM MONGOLIA Urna Mongolia Network Medien 103 LIBERTAD Yasmin Levy Israel World Village 104 EN YAY SAH Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang Sierra Leone Luaka Bop 105 INTRODUCING AMADOU DIAGNE Amadou Diagne Senegal Riverboat/WMN 106 TANGO DE NORTE A SUR Las Chicas del Tango Finland ARC Music 107 ANTIBALAS Antibalas USA Daptone Records 108 NOSOTRAS SOMOS Las Migas Spain Chesapik 109 LOCAL STRANGER Alkinoos Ioannidis Greece/Cyprus Wrasse 110 HEART AND SOUL Clinton Fearon Jamaica/USA Boogie Brown Prod. 111 HUELLAS Jorge Pardo Spain Cabra Road 112 BOLOGNA TRA LE CORDE Daniele Dall'omo, Antonio Stragapede Italy Sheherazade 113 TRIODE Laila Amezian Belgium Zimbraz 114 SPLENDOR The Other Europeans various Kikiyon 115 ASKA KALEDDHAMU Orchestra Sparagnina Italy Finis Terre 116 EN CONCERT (is not a release!!) Boubacar Traore Mali Lusafrica 117 AIGABANI Kalaban Coura Mali/Belgium/MoroccoAgua Music 118 VALTA Alamaailman Vasarat Finland Nordic Notes 119 L'OSTERIA DEL FOJONCO I Violini di Santa Vittoria, Riccardo Tesi, Claudia Carboni Italy Tacer Dancer 120 LOCKED DOWN Dr.John USA Nonesuch 121 GIVE Balkan Beat Box USA/ Israel Crammed Discs 122 PARATIISI Sakari Kukko & Humbalax Finland/Senegal Rockadillo Records 123 CASA Raiz & Radicanto Italy Arealive 124 BASTA MAFIA Zdob (Si) Zdub Moldovia Asphalt Tango 125 MOUNQUALIBA - RISING: THE REMIXES Natacha Atlas UK/Egypt Six Degrees 126 LISBOA MULATA Dead Combo Portugal Universal 127 VOCALISM Vusa Mkhaya Zimbabwe ARC 128 RADIO BEIRUT Various Artists Lebanon Galileo MC 129 AFRICAN GUITARS - ANTHOLOGY Various Artists various Lusafrica 130 PARIS-HOLLYWOOD Akli D. France Rue Bleue 131 RAUSHANA Marwan Abado Austria/Lebanon Obaxe Music 132 MAKSMATA VÖLAND Legshaker Estonia Legshaker 133 LOLA Maraveyas Ilegal Greece EMI/Greece 134 INDIAN RAGAS & MEDIEVAL SONG Vellard, Zuckerman, Chaterjee &Chemirani India/Iran Glossa Music 135 BLACK BAZAR Modogo & Sam France/dR Congo Lusafrica 136 XOTA PA TRES De Miguel, Wolfe & Quintana Brazil Every good Song 137 SECONDO A NESUNO Claudio Carboni Italy Sherherazade 138 LES RIVES/RIVERBANKS Thierry Robin France/various Naive 139 THE LIVING ROOM SESSIONS PART 1 Ravi Shankar India East Meets West Music 140 NEVE GILA - NEW ROMANI SONGS Various Artists Slovakia OZ Zudro 141 LIBERTAD Orquestra Arab de Barcelona Spain World Village 142 ESCALES Sophie Chavez et Balthazar Montanaro Belgium Mosaic Music 143 DINDINHA - SONS DO BRASIL Ceumar Brazil ARC 144 BUILD Rupa & The April Fishes USA Cumbancha 145 MATUTO Matuto USA/Brazil Galileo MC 146 MABRUK Aziza Brahim & Gulili Mankoo Western Sahara Reaktion 147 10 ANYS Franca Masu Italy Aramusica 148 FAYT Cankisou Czech Republic Indies Scope 149 5773 Jewdyssee Germany Panshot/Galileo MC 150 THE LAST GATHERING Arja Kastinen Finland Temps Oy.