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Global Village Top 40 – October 2023

  1. Bombino – Sahel (Partisan) 
  2. Roberto Menescal – Nos E O Mar (Jasmin) 
  3. Various artists – Lost in Tajikistan (Riverboat) 
  4. Black Market Brass – Hox (Black Market Brass) 
  5. Bantu – What Is Your Breaking Point? (Broken Silence) 
  6. Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge) 
  7. Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band – Vox Humana (Jazzheads) 
  8. Bobby Rozario – Spellbound (Origin World) 
  9. Bahama Soul Club – Sundub Society (Buyu) 
  10. Jan Wouter Oostenrijk – Traveling East (Mountain) 
  11. Harold Lopez-Nussa – Timba A La Americana (Blue Note) 
  12. Team des Balkans & Melissa Zartman – En Cavale (Team des Balkans) 
  13. Hilario Duran & His Latin Jazz Big Band – Cry Me a River (Alma) 
  14. Doug Richards Orchestra – Through A Sonic Prism (Doug Richards) 
  15. Pete Escovedo – Lifetime/Anthology (Mistere Productions) 
  16. Ivan Lins – My Heart Speaks (Resonance) 
  17. Frigg – Perinto (Bafe’s Factory) 
  18. Aguanko – Unidad (Aguanko) 
  19. Alfredo Rodriguez – Coral Way (Mack Avenue) 
  20. Rubin de Toledo – The Drip (Rubin de Toledo) 
  21. Talking Spirits – Hands (Zephyrus) 
  22. Marcus Gad – Ready for Battle (Balo Music) 
  23. Matthieu Saglio – Voices (ACT Music) 
  24. Shakti – This Moment (Abstract Logix) 
  25. Shono – Kolkhozoy Traktor (CPL-Music) 
  26. Antonio Adolfo – Bossa 65 (AAM) 
  27. Sahkopaimen – Hamara (Nordic Notes) 
  28. Genticorum – Au Coeur de L’Aube (Genticorum) 
  29. Gafieira Rio Miami – Bring Back Samba (Gafieira Rio Miami) 
  30. Pedro Rosa – Midnight Alvorada (Ajabu) 
  31. Dudu Tassa/Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit) 
  32. Eliades Ochoa – Guajiro (World Circuit) 
  33. Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens – Music Inferno (Umsakazo) 
  34. Driss El Maloumi – Aswat (Contre Jour) 
  35. Idrissa Soumaoro – Dire (Mieruba) 
  36. Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi – The Wolf and the Lamb (ARC Music) 
  37. Mari Kalkun – Stories of Stonia (Real World) 
  38. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Egares (No Format) 
  39. Flamenco Passion – A Tribute to Paco de Lucia (Storyville) 
  40. Dimitris Papageorgiou – Greek Bouzouki Classics (ARC Music)
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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.