The Cape Verdean’s pure, intimate voice in a range of percussion-based settings, with some great trombone and accordion too.

Elegant, serene, new-wave, profoundly tuneful playing, with accompaniment from Abhijit Banerjee’s tabla and Sudipta Remy’s tampura.

Tremendous, wild and highly charged music from Crete, completely compelling across a range of moods and styles, with brilliant lyra playing by the leader.

Warm, nostalgic, stirring settings for voice, guitar, accordion and violin. Knowing nothing, we can hear Jacques Brel and Jake Thackray.

The ravanne is a large drum — a goatskin stretched over a wooden frame — played with the hands, emblematic of the Creole cultural heritage on this island in the Indian Ocean: the music here is fabulous.

Startlingly fresh and unusual, these timeless, traditional peasant songs from north-west Spain — mostly with percussion accompaniment, sometimes with flute, bagpipe, oboe or rebec.

The business — pure, heavy, deep Afro Cuban funk grooves. 1970s bass-driven percussion delirium. Lazaro Pla aka Manteca alongside Nelson ‘El Flaco’ Pardon on timbales and Carlos Potato Valdes on congas.

Better sound than the first volume, and presented in the fine style of this label, with a 44-page booklet full of great photos, low-down and interviews.

The first album, straight no chaser, from 1973 — superlative Beninese Afrobeat.

A staggering third helping of raw Benin funk. Check YouTube for a totally knockout film of the band performing the second track, Houzou Houzou Wa.

Sixties southern soul, originally out on John Richbourg’s Sound Stage Seven.
Knockouts, start-to-finish.

‘Infinite sheets of grainy sound build and renew themselves to immensely pleasing effect’ (The Wire).

‘Rhythme Congolais From Africa To The Antilles, 1963-77.’

Utterly beautiful contemporary recordings.

Ceremonial music from villages in south-west Turkey, featuring a range of saz lutes, violin, and sipsi (a small oboe).