The album Amadjar by Malian desert bliues band Tinariwen is the number one album for October 2019 at the Transglobal World Music Chart. Amadjar was recorded in Mauritania and features Warren Ellis, Noura Mint Seymali, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, Stephen O’Malley, Micah Nelson, Rodophe Burger and Cass McCombs.
- Tinariwen – Amadjar – Anti-
- Dona Onete – Rebujo – AmpliDiversão / Mais Um
- Cimarrón – Orinoco – Cimarrón Music
- Lajkó Félix & Vołosi – Lajkó Félix & Vołosi – Fonó
- Mara Aranda – Sefarad en el Corazón de Turquía – Mara Aranda
- Habib Koité – Kharifa – Contre-Jour
- The Garifuna Collective – Aban – Stonetree
- Boban Marković Orkestar – Mrak – Fonó
- Mah Damba – Hakili Kélé – Buda Musique
- Oum – Daba – Lof Music / MDC
- Mísia – Pura Vida (Banda Sonora) – Galileo Music Communication
- Parno Graszt – Már Nem Szédülök / Rolling Back – Fonó
- Otava Yo – Do You Love – ARC Music
- Baba Zula – Derin Derin – Glitterbeat
- Kayhan Kalhor, Rembrandt Frerichs, Tony Overwater, Vinsent Planjer – It’s Still Autumn – Kepera
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party – Live at WOMAD 1985 – Real World
- V.A. – Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith – Songs from the Bardo – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Janusz Prusinowski Kompania – Po Śladach / In the Footsteps – Słuchaj Uchem / Buda Musique
- Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi – There Is No Other – Nonesuch
Author: World Music Central News Room
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