Funk pioneers. Check it out if you like Young Holt, Wade In The Water, James Brown. (Check yourself out if you don’t.)

Kind of field recordings by Simon Tong and his mate from Killing Joke, searching out new music — their idea of Folk — that’s unfancy, basically acoustic, ‘English’ somehow; and recording it in its own environment.

Beautiful, small-group boleros. Ibrahim’s last, attenuated sessions before his passing in 2005.