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Global Village's Top 20: Best of 2013

1.       Mulatu Astatke - Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village)

2.       Tamikrest - Chatma (Glitterbeat)

3.       Various - Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana (Analog Africa)

4.       Various - Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s (Soundway)

5.       Monoswezi - The Village (Riverboat)

6.       Debashish Bhattacharya and Friends - Beyond the Ragasphere (Riverboat)

7.       Garifuna Collective - Ayo (Cumbancha)/Danny Michel & the Garifuna Collective - Blackbirds Are Dancing Over Me (Cumbancha)

8.       Riccardo Tesi - Cameristico (Materiali Sonori)/ Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Pizzica Indiavolata (Ponderosa)

9.       Debademba - Souleymane (World Village)

10.   Jussi Reijonen - Un (Jussi Reijonen)/ Nashaz - Nashaz (Nashaz)

11.   Ebo Taylor - Ebo Taylor (Mr. Bongo)/ Ebo Taylor - Conflict (Mr. Bongo)

12.   Africando - Viva Africando (Sterns Africa)

13.   Anoushka Shankar - Traces of You (Deutsche Grammophon)

14.   Red Baraat - Shruggy Ji (Sinj)

15.   Sly & Robbie Present Stepper Takes the Taxi (Taxi)/Jahcoustix - Frequency (Irievibrations)

16.   Omar Sosa - Eggun (Ota)

17.   Raya Brass Band - This Train Is Now (Raya Brass Band)

18.   Various - Rough Guide to the Music of the Mediterranean (World Music Network)

19.   Various - Pop Yeh Yeh (Sublime Frequencies)/Various - The Ultimate Guide to Spanish Folk (Arc Music)

20.   DaWangGang - Wild Tune Stray Rhythm (Jaro)/ Van-Ahn Vanessa Vo - Three Mountain Pass (Innova)

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.