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Global Village Top 40 – November 2023

  1. Aga Khan Master Musicians – Nowruz (Smithsonian Folkways) 
  2. Kavita Shah – Cape Verdean Blues (Folklist) 
  3. Bahama Soul Club – Sundub Society (Buyu) 
  4. Batsukh Dorj – Ogbelerim: Music for My Ancestors (Buda Musique) 
  5. Genticorum – Au Coeur de L’Aube (Genticorum) 
  6. Bixiga 70 – Vapor (Glitterbeat) 
  7. Leon Keita – Leon Keita (Analog Africa) 
  8. Frigg – Perinto (Bafe’s Factory) 
  9. The Blassics – Sounding Times (Odd Funk) 
  10.  AySay – Koy (No Bounds Music) 
  11. Sahkopaimen – Hamara (Nordic Notes) 
  12. Bombino – Sahel (Partisan) 
  13. Roberto Menescal – Nos E O Mar (Jasmin) 
  14. Various artists – Lost in Tajikistan (Riverboat) 
  15. Bombino – Sahel (Partisan) 
  16. Roberto Menescal – Nos E O Mar (Jasmin) 
  17. Various artists – Lost in Tajikistan (Riverboat) 
  18.  Lenhart Tapes – Dens (Glitterbeat) 
  19. Mokoomba – Tusona (Out/Here) 
  20. Ana Carla Maza – Caribe (Persona Editorial) 
  21. Pete Escovedo – Lifetime/Anthology (Mistere Productions) 
  22. Black Market Brass – Hox (Black Market Brass) 
  23. Bantu – What Is Your Breaking Point? (Broken Silence) 
  24. Tinariwen – Amatssou (Wedge) 
  25. Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band – Vox Humana (Jazzheads) 
  26. Bobby Rozario – Spellbound (Origin World) 
  27. Jan Wouter Oostenrijk – Traveling East (Mountain) 
  28. Team des Balkans & Melissa Zartman – En Cavale (Team des Balkans) 
  29. Alfredo Rodriguez – Coral Way (Mack Avenue) 
  30. Rubin de Toledo – The Drip (Rubin de Toledo) 
  31. Matthieu Saglio – Voices (ACT Music) 
  32. Shakti – This Moment (Abstract Logix) 
  33. Shono – Kolkhozoy Traktor (CPL-Music) 
  34. Antonio Adolfo – Bossa 65 (AAM) 
  35. Gafieira Rio Miami – Bring Back Samba (Gafieira Rio Miami) 
  36. Pedro Rosa – Midnight Alvorada (Ajabu) 
  37. Dudu Tassa/Jonny Greenwood – Jarak Qaribak (World Circuit) 
  38. Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens – Music Inferno (Umsakazo) 
  39. Idrissa Soumaoro – Dire (Mieruba) 
  40. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Egares (No Format) 
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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.