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Global Village Top 40 Albums For June 2016

1. Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble – Sing Me Home (Sony Masterworks)

2. The Wailers – The Wailing Wailers (Studio One/Yep Roc)

3. Ziggy Marley – Ziggy Marley (Tuff Gong)

4. Various – Rough Guide to Brazilian Jazz (World Music Network)

5. Breabach – Astar (Breabach)

6. Alma Afrobeat Ensemble – It’s Time (Slow Walk Music)

7. Buyepongo – Todo Mundo (Buyepongo)

8. Fela Ransome Kuti & Koola Lobitos – Highlife-Jazz and Afro Soul (Knitting Factory)

9. Eliades Ochoa – Guajira + Mas Guajira (Tumi)

10. Ebo Taylor – Twer Nyame & My Love and Music (Mr. Bongo)

11. Djelimady Tounkara – Djely Blues (Label Bleu)

12. Amjad Ali Khan/Rahim Alhaj – Infinite Hope (UR Music)

13. Jean-Luc Thomas/Ravichandra Kulur – Magic Flutes (Hirustica)

14. Cocek! Brass Band – Second Round (Cocek! Brass Band)

15. Michael Doucet & Tom Rigney – Cajun Fandango (Parhelion)

16. Various – Rough Guide to South African Jazz (World Music Network)

17. Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)

18. Santana – Santana IV (Thirty Tigers)

19. Stefano Salwetti & Banda Ikona – Sound City (Finis Terra)

20. Natty Nation – Divine Spark (iNatty)

21. Bach – Anian (RealWorld)

22. M.A.K.U. Soundsystem – Mezcla (Glitterbeat)

23. Stanley & the Ten Sleepless Knights – Quelbe! (Smithsonian Folkways)

24. Pare – Hausjarvi Beat (Zebo)

25. Snarky Puppy – Culcha Vulcha (Ground Up)

26. Aziza Brahim - Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat)

27. Sociedade Recreative - Sociedade Recreative (Veev)

28. Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil – Dois Amigos (Nonesuch)

29. Renato Braz – Saudade (Living Music)

30. Beautiful Nubia & the Roots Renaissance Band – Taabaku (Eni Obanke)

31. Ze Boiade – Ze Que Casa (La Roda)

32. Sampo Lassila Narinnka – In Strange Lands (Narinkaattori)

33. The Gloaming – 2 (Brassland)

34. Faith I Branko – Gypsy Lover (Riverboat)

35. Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village)

36. Anoushka Shankar – Land of Gold (Deutsche Grammophon)

37. Various – Rough Guide to a World of Psychedelia (World Music Network)

38. Bombino – Azel (Partisan)

39. Lakou Mizik – Wa Di You (Cumbancha)

40. La Banda Morisca – Algarabya (Fol Musica)

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.