Vedan Kolod’s Birds topped the 2024 Russian World Music Chart, voted on by an international jury of 21 World Music representatives from around the globe.
The Russian World Music Chart (RWMC), was launched in 2021. Its purpose is to attract the attention of the world music community to the variety of folk music of multinational Russia, and to help popularize and assist in promoting musicians from remote corners of Russia in the Russian Federation and abroad.
The international jury, with representatives from Japan, Turkey, Norway, USA, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Serbia, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic and Russia, announced the 20 best albums:
1. Vedan Kolod’s Birds — CPL-music
2. Otava Yo’s Loud and Clear — ARC Music
3. Dobranotch’s Vander Ikh Mir Lustik — CPL-music
4. Huun-Huur-Tu, Carmen Rizzo & Dhani Harrison’s Dreamers In the Field — Dark Horse Records / BMG
5. Bai-Terek’s The Wealth of Life — UP! UP! UP! Music
6. Tyva Kyzy’s Songs of life — Self-released
7. ZOR’s Suuha-Hur — Baikal Music label
8. Choduraa Tumat’s Singing river / Yrlyg Bulak — Pan Records
9. Vereya’s Soitua Maa — Self-released
10. The Unknown Composer’s KOVRЫ — Navigator records
11. Ilmu’s Mua — Self-released
12. AINA’s Ekonda — musique de sibérie
13. ALA-TEY’s ALA-TEY — Self-released
14. OYME’s Mastorava vol. 1 – Navigator records
15. Nikadimus Experience’s Bystree, vyshe, silnee — Self-released
16. Kadim Almet’s Gayar Janay — Karakuz Label
17. Ensemble Voskresenie & Nikita Savostin’s Telega — Save Sound
18. Kokora’s The Red Thread — Self-released
19. Testo’s Marya.Ivan — Content Chaos
20. Post-dukes’ Southern Udmurts — Dukes label
Best EP: YARANGA’s Berezovy
Best electronic album: Mivari’s Firebird
Best acoustic album: Stepan Plotnikov’s Syam-yylol
Listeners choice album: Vereya’s Soitua Maa
Listeners choice EP: ZHIVaGO’s Svezhaya-klyukva. Part 2
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RWMC jurors 2024:
1. Arne Berg (Norway)
2. Gino Granata (Italy)
3. Angel Romero y Ruiz (USA)
4. Lev Belyakov (Russia/Serbia)
5. Giovanni Alcani (Italy)
6. Daryana Antipova (USA)
7. Loris Böhm (Italy)
8. Araceli Tzigane (Spain)
9. Nikola Glavinic (Serbia)
10. Jorge Garcia Patón (Catalonia, Spain)
11. Milan Tesař (Czech Republic)
12. Christian Pliefke (Germany)
13. Toni Pennacchia (USA)
14. Tamás Galgóczi (Hungary)
15. Vladimír «Potkan» Potančok (Slovakia)
16. Tatiana Naryshkina (Russia/Serbia)
17. Ludwig Liebhardt (Germanу)
18. Kutay Derin Kugay (Turkey)
19. Takuya Unagami (Japan)
20. Scott Stevens (USA)
21. Sergey Mezenov (Russia)
