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Global Village Top 40 Albums For June 2015

1.       Tipsy Oxcart - Upside Down (Tipsy Oxcart)

2.       Various - Don't Think I've Forgotten Soundtrack (Dust to Digital)

3.       Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Ba Power (Glitterbeat)

4.       Paquito D'Rivera & Quinteto Cimarron - In Aires Tropicales (Sunnyside)

5.       Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (World Circuit)

6.       Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile (Atlantic)

7.       Gao Hong - Pipa Potluck (Innova)

8.       Seckou Keita - 22 Strings (Arc Music)

9.       Buena Vista Social Club - Lost and Found (World Circuit)

10.   Thomas Mapfumo - Lion Songs (Lion Songs/Thomas Mapfumo)

11.   Ophelie Gaillard - Alvorada (Aparte)

12.   Cesaria Evora - Greatest Hits (LusAfrica)

13.   Quitapenas - Quitapenas (Mas Tropical)

14.   Cristina Pato - Latina (Sunnyside)

15.   Alex Krygier - Hombre de Piedra (Crammed Discs)

16.   Various - Next Stop Soweto 4 (Strut)

17.   Ludovico Einaudi - Taranta Project (Ponderosa)

18.   Vinicius Cantuaria - Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim (Sunnyside)

19.   Harry Manx - 20 Strings and the Truth (Dog My Cat)

20.   Hamilton de Holanda - World of Pixinguinha (Adventure Music)

21.   Le Vent du Nord - Tetu (Borealis)

22.   Rocky Dawuni - Branches of the Same Tree (Cumbancha)

23.   Slim Ali & the Hodi Boys - 70s Pop! (Arc Music)

24.   The Skints - FM (Easy Star)

25.   Various - Celtic Cafe (Putumayo)

26.   Various - Afro-Caribbean Party (Putumayo)

27.   Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra - Wendelu (Ubiquity)

28.   Ray Obiedo - There Goes That (Rhythmus)

29.   Khaira Arby - Gossip (Clermont Music)

30.   Monsieur Doumani - Sikoses (Monsieur Doumani)

31.   Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Quaranta (Ponderosa)

32.   Teta - Blue Tsapiky (Buda Musique)

33.   Elida Almeida - Oro Doci Oro Marcos (LusAfrica)

34.   Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys - Voyageurs (Steve Riley)

35.   Samba Toure - Gandadiko (Glitterbeat)

36.   Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca - At Home (Jazz Village)

37.   Taraf de Haidouks - Of Lovers, Gamblers & Parachute Skirts (Crammed Discs)

38.   Anouar Brahem - Souvenance (ECM)

39.   Marcus Miller - Afrodeezia (Blue Note)

40.   Pedro Soler & Philippe Mourtatoglou - Rumores de la Caleta (Vision Fugitive)

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.