artist/ song/ album/ label
Keenan Webster & Balafo/ Here Come the Drums/ Talking Wood/ Jizo
Olatunji/ Shango/ Drums of Passion/ Sony
Doudou Ndiaye Rose/ Diame/ Djabote/ Real World
Ile Aiye with Caetano Veloso/ Ile de Luz/ Canto Negro/ Braziloid
Olodum/ Bahia Viva/ O Movimento/ Warner Music Brasil
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey/ E Ma Se Lo Finale/ Get Yer Jujus Out/ Ryko

Ghetto Blaster/ Je M'Appelle/ River Niger/ Next Music
Twins Seven Seven & His Golden Cabretas/ Totobiroko/ Nigeria Special vol. 2/ Sound Way
Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80/ Think Africa/ Music Meeting Festival Highlights/ Radio Nederland

Israel Vibrations/ The Same Song/ The Same Song/ Ras
Sine Calmon & Morrao Fumegante/ War, E Demais/ Fogo Na Babilonia/ Atracao

No Blues/ Farewell Shalabiye/ Farewell Shalabiye/ Rounder Europe
Khaled with Carlos Santana & Elan/ Love to the People/ Ya Rayi/ Wrasse
Idir with Gnawa Diffusion/ Revolution/ Identites/ Sony France
Bnat El Ghiwane/ Ghir Khoudouni/ Ya Leriyah el Aaasafa/ MCPE
Ali Hassan Kuban/ Om Sha'ar Asmar Medaffar/ Walk Like a Nubian/ Piranha

(A set remembering Hurricane Katrina- five years on...)
Blind Willie Johnson/ Dark Was the Night/ Slide Guitar: Bottles Knives & Steel/ Columbia
Blind Boys of Alabama/ Wade in the Water/ Higher Ground/ Real World
Raphael Saadiq/ Big Easy/ The Way I See It/ Columbia
Professor Longhair/ Mean Old World/ Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge/ Rhino
Rebirth Marching Jazz Band/ All Blues/ New Orleans Brass Bands/ Rounder

(...and finally we remember the the great innovative accordionist Steve Jordan who died earlier this month)
Steve Jordan/ Huapango Mariachi/ Tejano Conjunto/ Hacienda Records