Xandi’s Charts 2011

Today, I’ll show you my own 2011 charts:

Best Albums(which I found 2011):

• K’naan – The Dusty Foot Philosopher
• Tinashe – Saved
• Yeleen – Redemption

Don’t know so many albums, but maybe I’ll add more…

 Albums I bought in 2011:

• Sousou and Maher Cissoko – Stockholm-Dakar
• Tales of the Mbira-Modern and Ancient
• Ringsgwandl – Der Schärfste Gang
• Staff Benda Bilili – Tres Tres Fort

Best band:

• Yeleen
• Manu Chao
• Playing For Change

Best Artist:

• Xavier Rudd

Idiot if the year:

• Justin Bieber

Worst Song:

• Money Boy – Dreh den Swag auf :)

Instrument of the year:

• Mbira

Best Songs:

• Avalanche City – Love, Love, Love
• Broder Daniel – No Time For Us
• Daby Balde – Aime
• The Cat Empire – Two Shoes
• Emmanuel Jal – Emma
• Jagga Bites – War
• Klepht – Embora Doa
• Silva, Tony & Ranga – Mukwasha imboko
• Sam Mtukudzi – Amai
• Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars – Living Stone
• Tinashe – Zambezi
• Yeleen – Chemin de l’exil (my all time favourite so far)
• Xavier Rudd – Messages
• Yiruma – River Flows In You

I know this are so many, but not enough! There are so many other good ones! Listen to my older blog posts!

I would like to listen more from:

• Avalanche City
• Of Monsters And Men
• Yeleen

Music Videos of the year:

• Klepht – Embora Doa
• Jagga Bites – War
• Be The Change You Want To See (best young production)

These musicians sadly died(just a few of them, and not only this year), RIP to:

• RIP Cesaria Evora
• RIP Sam Mtukudzi (so sad, I would love to listen to all his songs, and the future songs)
• RIP Taku Mafika (the Mbira maestro)
• RIP Ludwig Hirsch (an austrian master of sad songs)
• RIP Andy Palacio (a afro-latin musician from Belize)
• RIP Jan Johansson (already a long time ago….)

Music discovery of the year:

• I actually don’t know, there are so many great bands! Just look around here, these are all my new discoveries!
• And all your Music-Suggestions!