OWMR Album Awards
Welcome to the 2021 One World Music Radio album awards, our 9th annual awards.
All categories are voted on by a secret panel of judges.
Below you will find the complete list of categories and nominees - winners are also shown in the list, and you can listen to the show below!
Best Acoustic Album
David Lindsay - High Wind Blue Sky
Don Latarski - The Measure of Silence
Jim Kimo West - Ka Honua Maluhia: Peaceful World - 1st
Johannes Linstead - Bohemian Strings - 2nd
John Nelson - An Open Door
Laurence Furr - Upon the Corner of the Moon - 3rd
Max Jeschek - Journey to the Light
Michael Kollwitz - Calm Waters
Peter Sterling - The Winding Way
Trevor Gordon Hall - This Beautiful Chaos
Best Chill Out Album
Eleon - Café Chill - 1st
Eric Besse - Deep Sky
Joe Weineck - Morning Breeze
La Estacion Del Mar - Unno
Michael L. Rogers - Energy Transformation EP
Nicholas Gunn - Sound Condition - 2nd
Rodrigo Rodriguez - Ambientalism EP
Scott Lawlor - Awaken In Dreams
The Great Northern – Nocturnes - 3rd
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Aleksandra Takala - In My Own Time
Bill Freas - Yellowstone Lake
Holland Phillips - Eleven After Midnight
Jill Haley - Wrapped in Light - 2nd
Josefine & Trine Opsahl - The Infinite Between Us
MeTrónomoS - The Celts
Sensitive Chaos - Closer to Home - 3rd
Steve Orchard - Enchanted Autumn
Timothy Wenzel - Dusk to Diamonds - 1st
Tom Caufield - Arrive and Disappear
Best Flute Album
Dennis Laughlin - Inner Tranquility
Diane Wheeler Dunn - Quiet Beauty - 1st
Douglas Blue Feather - Time For Healing
Jan Michael Looking Wolf - Earth Tribe - 2nd
Joe Yeatman - Together Alone
Jonny Lipford - Balance
Ken Talaga - Spirit Voice
Lazypixel & Silvia Blaser - Spirits
Rodrigo Rodriguez - Blowing Zen - 3rd
Sherry Finzer - Renewal
Best Neo Classical Album
Billy Yfantis - Cinematic Works Vol 1
Bodhiheart - Love Rules, Meditations for Cello and Piano
Charles David Denler - Portraits in Season Live - 1st
Francisco José Villaescusa - A Study on Erosion
Javier Márquez - The Shelter Point - 2nd
Kelly Andrew - Revelation
Louis Anthony deLise - A Gift of Moments - 3rd
Matias Bacoňsky - Epochal
Peter Gregson - Patina
Rooydad - Entanglement
Best Piano with Instrumentation Award
Ann Sweeten - Change is in the Wind
David J. Peña - Winds of Change
Eric Heitmann - Ascent
Juan Sánchez - Touch & Sound
Laura Sullivan - Pieces of Forever
Masako - Wanderlust - 3rd
Peter Kater - Rapture - 2nd
Rick Sparks - Bella
Timothy Crane - Halo
Wayne Bethanis - Measures of Light - 1st
Best Solo Piano Award
Antonija Pacek - Forever
Darlene Koldenhoven - The Grand Piano Spa: Legacy - 2nd
Joseph Akins - Dream World
Lynn Tredeau - A Quiet Path - 3rd
MK Sol - Night's Edge
Omar Akram - The Light Will Come
Pam Asberry - Twelvemonth - 1st
Rada Neal - Notable 9th
Ryan Marvel - Moments
Stephen Wallack - Colors
Best World Album
Apichat Pakwan - Esantronics
Arsen Petrosyan - Hokin Janapar
Bapi Das Baul - River of Happy Souls
Ciro Hurtado - Luna - 2nd
Namgar - Nayan Navaa
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita - Suba - 1st
Rafiki Jazz - Nduggu (Dust)
Sereetsi & The Natives - I am Afrika
Thanos Stavridis - Spicy Margarita - 3rd
Belcirque - La Grande Fete
Best Ambient Album
Al Gromer Khan - Singing Back to Ziryab
Ambiente Solstice - Living Water
Chronotope Project - Gnosis -1st
City of Dawn - Nocturne
Forrest Smithson - Dieux
Liquid Mind - Liquid Mind: Musical Healthcare - 3rd
Phillip Wilkerson & Chris Russell - Dark Measures
Richard Ross - Ambientopia - 2nd
Robert Scott Thompson - Moonflower
Rudy Adrian - As Dusk Becomes Night
Best Classical Album
Brendan Mori - Meant for Two: Chamber Music by Brendan Moir - 2nd
James Michael Stevens - Piano Adajios Nos 1-12
Kerry Barnes - Classical Calm - 3rd
Laura Mosotto - We
Signum Saxophone Quartet - Echoes
Sophia Agranovich - Celebrating Beethoven - 1st
Best Electronic Album
Cloud Runner - Cloud Watch With Me
David Wright - The Lost Colony
Divine Matrix - The Heart of the Shaman
Erik Wøllo - «North Star» - 2nd
Forrest Fang - Forever Cascades
Harvey Summers - Moon - 1st
Jarguna - A Peaceful Granular Day
Jim Ottaway - Threshold of the Universe - 3rd
Keith Richie - Epica
Thierry David - Slow Motion
Best Jazz Album
Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks - You Are the Light and the Way
Angela Verbrugge - Love for Connoisseurs
Beth McKenna - Beyond Here - 2nd
Dimitri K. - I Am Not Yours
Fifth Element - Fifth Element - 1st
Greg Amirault - News Blues
Lisa Hilton - Transparent Sky
The Lunar Octet - Convergence
Mike Freedman - Into the Daybreak - 3rd
Peter Heckmann - Dancing Leaves
Best New Age Album
Dean and Dudley Evenson - Monet's Garden - 1st
2002 - Hummingbird - 2nd
Andy Rogers - Waves of Sleep
C G Deuter - Song of the Last Tree
Chakuna Machi Asa - Auroral Magic - 3rd
Cheryl B. Engelhardt - A Seeker's Slumber
Diane Arkenstone - The Healing Heart
Earth Tree Healing - Gods
Michael Harrison - Seven Sacred Names
Paul Avgerinos - Peace
Best Rock Album
Big City - Testify X - 2nd
Book Of Numbers - Magick - 1st
Circus of Rock - Come One, Come All
Crazy Lixx - Street Lethal
Door 964 - C.O.T.D
Edge Of Paradise - The Unknown
Heart Line - Back In The Game
Lifesigns - Altitude - 3rd
Orions Reign - Scores Of War
Stranger Vision - Poetica
Best Vocal Album
AO Music - Kutumba
Blackmore's Night - Natures Light
Donna De Lory - Gone Beyond
Home Port - Home Port 3
Lissa Coffey & David Vito Gregoli - Song Divine: The Bhagavad Gita Rock Opera - 2nd
Natasha Hardy - Lost In Love - 1st
Patricia Patrise - Travel Freely
Paul Vens & Friends - Ode to Arthur van Schendel Concert
Shunia - Shunia
The Song Gardeners - People Passing Through - 3rd