Global A Go-Go's three-week look at the best world music recordings of 2015; this week, the best new releases of the year
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Song | Artist (Country) | Recording | Label | Year
Separation | Oliver Lake (USA) | Matador Of 1st & 1st | Passin' Thru | 1997 Global A Go-Go | Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros (UK) | Global A Go-Go | Hellcat | 2001
Viene La Muerte Echando Rasero | Lila Downs (Mexico-USA) | Balas Y Chocolate | Sony Music Latin | 2015 Los Nervios Que Te Di | Chico Trujillo (Chile) feat Kevin Johansen (Argentina-USA) | Reina De Todas Las Fiestas | Barbes | 2015 Roto El Corazon | Grupo Fantasma (USA) | Problemas | Blue Corn Music | 2015
Odo Adaada | Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana-Germany) | Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band | Strut | 2015 Soleil Couchant | The Souljazz Orchestra (Canada) | Resistance | Strut | 2015
Slavery Days | Tiken Jah Fakoly (Cote D'Ivoire) | Racines | Barclay | 2015 Cheuka | Brian Chilala & Ngoma Zasu (Zambia) | Vangaza! | SWP | 2015 Slings & Arrows | Fat Freddy's Drop (New Zealand) | Bays | The Drop | 2015
Toxic (one drop version) | The Bluebeaters (Italy) | Everybody Knows | Record Kicks | 2015 Rom Say Sok | Dengue Fever (Cambodia-USA) | The Deepest Lake | Tuk Tuk | 2015
Touri Idje Bibi | Samba Toure (Mali) | Gandadiko | Glitterbeat | 2015 Diplome | Titi Robin (France) & Mehdi Nassouli (Morocco) | Taziri | World Village | 2015 Gorage | Qwanqwa (Ethiopia-USA) | Volume 2 | FPE | 2015
EastWest - Dysi Ki Anatoli | Shantel (Germany) & Areti Ketime (Greece) | Viva Diaspora | Essay | 2015 I Love You Madly (radio edit) | Black Masala (DC USA) | I Love You Madly | self-released | 2015
I Kanafo | Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band (Burkina Faso) | Juguya | Sublime Frequencies | 2015 Siran Fen | Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Mali) | Ba Power | Glitterbeat | 2015 Niran | Bixiga 70 (Brazil) | III | Glitterbeat | 2015