- Bantu – What Is Your Breaking Point? (Broken Silence)
- Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band – Vox Humana (Jazzheads)
- Various – Putumayo Presents Bossa Nova (Putumayo)
- Gafieira Rio Miami – Bring Back Samba (Gafieira Rio Miami)
- Frigg – Perinto (Bafe’s Factory)
- Tony Allen – Jazz Is Dead 18 (JID)
- Eliades Ochoa – Guajiro (World Circuit)
- Talking Spirits – Hands (Zephyrus)
- Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens – Music Inferno (Umsakazo)
- Driss El Maloumi – Aswat (Contre Jour)
- Keturah – Kethurah ((Henhouse)
- Idrissa Soumaoro – Dire (Mieruba)
- Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge)
- Raquel Bitton – C’est Magnifique (Rachel Bitton)
- Sammy Figueroa – Searching for a Memory (Ashe)
- Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi – The Wolf and the Lamb (ARC Music)
- Irma Ferreira – Em Cantos de Orisa (Ajabu)
- Mari Kalkun – Stories of Stonia (Real World)
- Seckou Keita – African Rhapsodies (Claves)
- Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Egares (No Format)
- Ali Farka Toure – Voyageur (World Circuit)
- Flamenco Passion – A Tribute to Paco de Lucia (Storyville)
- Shakti – This Moment (Abstract Logix)
- Shono – Kolkhozoy Traktor (CPL-Music)
- Inna de Yard – Family Affair (Wagram)
- Dimitris Papageorgiou – Greek Bouzouki Classics (ARC Music)
- Martin Hayes – Peggy’s Dream (251 Records)
- Easy Star All Stars – Ziggy Stardub (Easy Star)
- Dur Dur Band Int. – The Berlin Session (Out/Here)
- Kayhan Kalhor/Toumani Diabate – The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere (Real World)
- Kimi Djabate – Dindin (Cumbancha)
- Marcus Gad – Ready for Battle (Balo Music)
- Groupa – Kind of Folk Vol. 4 Iberia (All Ice)
- Gao Hong/Kadialy Kouyate – Terri Kunda (ARC Music)
- Matthieu Saglio – Voices (ACT Music)
- Hijaz – Hijaz + Strings (Zephryrus)
- Ricardo Tesi – La Giusta Distanza (Visage)
- Ana Aisha – Gaisha (Zephyrus)
- 3’Ain – Sea of Stories (Choux de Bruxelles)
- Malika Zarra – Riva (D Zel Prod)
Global Village Top 40 – August 2023
