☆ 二十張最喜愛世界音樂類年度佳片：2016 Best World Music/ World-beat Albums

每年從一個所謂的世界音樂範疇去挑選音樂作品對我個人而言是件困難但非常有趣的事，因為世界音樂本身並不是一種真正的流派，它是由各區域文化、民族等定義出來的廣泛類別音樂，這些樂手往往缺乏適當的管道介紹給大眾，但也因為他們並未受到大量的注目，所以也更容易發掘到新穎的精彩作品。

如果你願意打開耳朵的話，我們可以藉由這些音樂一路巡航歐洲和地中海，旅行撒哈拉，然後去北美洲，再徒步到中南美洲。你會發現東歐和地中海的傳統聲音是新鮮而大膽的，從非洲Tuareg新的沙漠藍調一路聽到摩洛哥或馬拉威的監獄之歌，你彷彿可以聽到遙遠的藍調起源其實離我們不很久遠，而新的女聲如Rokia Traoré的賦予傳統音調新的氣象。Afrobeat傳奇大老Tony Allen則反過來積極出擊，穿越大西洋，與海地最優秀的音樂家進行跨地域合作，如專輯封面所示，那是集結十三位最優秀音樂人共同創作的當代海地之聲。而又如果在巴西，新樂種的崛起依舊可以期待，傳統音樂與當代電子聲響的結合，南美洲一個最具政治和文化影響力的藝術家激盪場域，巴西從未缺席。

所以與其說世界音樂像是綜合所有國家的在地音樂於一大總匯，倒不如說它更像是這個星球上開遍自世界各地的花朵，一片片、一株珠地展現各自曼妙的身姿，那才是在地文化希望的開始。

☆ 二十張最喜愛世界音樂類年度佳片：
2016 Best World Music/ World-beat Albums

1. Vieux Kanté - The Young Man’s Harp (Sterns Africa)
2. Zomba Prison Project - I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees)
3. Various Artists - Music of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959 (Dust-to-Digital)
4. Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis – NYN (Riverboat)
5. Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra - Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra (Glitterbeat)
6. Rokia Traoré - Né So (Nonesuch)
7. Terra Sangue Mare (Michela Musolino, Michael Delia, and Fabio Turchetti) - Terra Sangue Mare
8. Imarhan – Imarhan (City Slang)
9. Bombino – Azel (Partisan)
10. The Klezmatics - Apikorsim/Heretics (World Village)
11. Céu – Tropix (Six Degrees)
12. Luísa Maita - Fio da Memória (Cumbancha)
13. Lakou Mizik - Wa Di Yo (Cumbancha)
14. Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Everything Sacred (Domino)
15. Leyla McCalla - A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey (Jazz Village)
16. Fanfare Ciocărlia - Onwards to Mars! (Asphalt Tango)
17. Damir Imamović's Sevdah Takht - Dvojka (Glitterbeat)
18. Family Atlantica: Cosmic Unity (Soundway Records)
19. Jarlath Henderson - Hearts Broken, Heads Turned (Bellows Records)
20. The Gloaming – 2 (Real World)

Other Honorable Mentions
Elza Soares - The Woman at the End of the World (Mais Um Discos)
Sainkho Namtchylak: Like a Bird or Spirit, Not a Face (Ponderosa)
Various Artists - Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics (Sterns)
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Cuba, the Conversation Continues (Motema)
Various Artists - Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura Anthology (Brownswood)
Sidestepper: Supernatural Love (Real World)
Carrie Rodriguez: Lola (Luz)
Värttinä: Viena (Westpark Music/Proper)
Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate - Monistic Theory (Cumbancha)
Afro Celt Sound System - The Source (ECC)
Three Cane Whale – Palimpsest (Fieldnotes)
Kutiman - 6am (Siyal)
Mala – Mirrors (Brownswood Recordings)
Various artists - Nigeria Freedom Sounds! (Soul Jazz)
Calypso Rose - Far from Home (Because)
Graveola - Camaleão Borboleta (Mais Um Discos)
BaBa ZuLa - Do Not Obey (Milan Music)
Anda Union - Homeland (Hohhot/Proper)
Metá Metá - MM3 (Jazz Village/ PIAS)
Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat)
Orkesta Mendoza - ¡Vamos A Guarachar! (Glitterbeat)
Xylouris White - Black Peak (Bella Union)
Çiğdem Aslan - A Thousand Cranes (Asphalt Tango)
Gaye Su Akyol - Hologram Imparatorlugu (Glitterbeat)
Jupiter Okwess - Troposphere 13 (Zamora)
Amira Medunjanin - Damar (World Village/PIAS)
Hugh Masekela - No Borders (Universal)