- Samurai Accordion – Te (Visage)
- Julio Pereira – Praca do Comercio (Tradisom)
- Spanglish Fly – Ay Que Boogaloo! (Chaco)
- Otros Aires – Balkan Airs (Galileo)
- 3MA – Anarouz (Mad Minute)
- Gabacho Maroc – Tawassol (Sony)
- Alfredo Rodriguez – The Little Dream (Mack Avenue)
- Buffy Sainte-Marie – Medicine Songs (True North)
- Boubacar Traore – Dounia Tabolo (LusAfrica)
- Various – Rough Guide to the Music of West Africa (World Music Network)
- Ethiopian & His All Stars – The Return of Jack Sparrow (Omnivore/Nighthawk)
- Ladama – Ladama (Six Degrees)
- Miroca Paris – D’Alma (Miroca Paris)
- Brenda Navarette – Nu Mundo (Alma)
- Les Filles de Illihadad – Eghass Malan (Sahel Sounds)
- Sameer Gupta – A Crile Has No Beginning (Sameer Gupta)
- Stick in the Wheel – Follow Them True (From Here)
- Emilia Lajunen/Suvi Oskala – Piilokisa (Nordic Notes)
- Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband – Es:Sensual (Ota)
- Gladiators – Full Time (Omnivore/Nighthawk)
- Various Artists – The Original Sound of Burkina Faso (Mr. Bongo)
- Eoin Dillon – Pondelorum (Buda Musique)
- Che Sudaka – Almas Rebeldes (Cavernicola)
- La Misa Negra – La Misa Negra (NAM Entertainment)
- Baraka Moon – Wind Horse (Baraka Moon)
- Jivan Gasparyan Dudek Ensemble – Yeraz (Buda Musique)
- Ilios Sterynnis – Bethany Project (Ilios Sterynnis)
- Hama Sankare – Ballebe (Clermont Music)
- Rafiki Jazz – Har Dam Sahara (Riverboat)
- Da Cruz – Eco Do Futuro (Boom Jah)
- Maya Youssef – Syrian Dreams (Harmonia Mundi)
- Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma – Lunar (Daly/Thoma)
- Efran Lopez, Stelios Petrakis, Bijan Chemirani – Taos (Buda Musique)
- Various Artists – Putumayo Presents Indian Groove (Putumayo)
- Quadro Nuevo & Cairo Steps – Flying Carpet (Fine Music/Justin Time)
- Anouar Brahem – Blue Maqams (ECM)
- Paa Kow – Cookpot (Paa Kow Music)
- Trio da Kali & Kronos Quartet – Ladilikan (World Circuit)
- Leila Gobi – 2017 (Clermont Music)
40. Moh! Kouyate – Fe Toki (Foli Son)