- Warsaw Village Band — Uwodzenie/Waterduction (Karrot Kommando)
- L’Alba — A’ Principiu (Buda Musique)
- Vaev — Vaev (Go Danish Fok Music)
- Justin Adams & Mauro Durante — Still Moving (Ponderosa)
- Guy Buttery, Mohd. Amjad Khan & Mudassir Khan — One Morning in Gurgaon (Riverboat)
- Various — Zanzabara Vol. 10 (Buda Musique)
- Christine Salem — Mersi (Blue Fanal)
- Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona — Mediterraneo Ostinato (Finis Terre)
- Baligh Hamdi — Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970s Egypt (Sublime Frequencies)
- Various — Essiebons Special 1973 - 1984 / Ghana Music Power House (Analog Africa)
- Balaphonics — Spicy Boom Boom (Vlad)
- Antonis Antoniou — Kkismettin (Ajabu!)
- Various — Republicafrobeat Vol. 5 Mujeres II (Kasba Music)
- Opium Moon — Night + Day (Six Degres)
- Stringflip — String Flip (Go Danish Folk Music)
- Hamdi Benani, Mehdi Haddab & Speed Caravan — Nuba Nova (Buda Musique)
- Maher Cissoko — Cissoko Heritage (Abuja!)
- Various — Cameroon Garage Funk (Analog Africa)
- Various — It’s A Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records – The Singles (Craft)
- Balkan Taksim — Disko Telegraf (Buda Musique)
- Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita — Suba (Bendigedig)
- A Espetacular Charanga do Franca — The Importance of Being Espetacular (Mais Um Discos)
- Khoomei Beat — Changys Baglaash (ARC Music)
- Fanfare Ciocarlia — It Wasn’t Hard to Love You (Asphalt Tango)
- Puuluup — Viimane Suusataja (Ounaviks)
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.