The collection features a smouldering clarinet section and the artist’s oneiric vocalisation

The pop veteran bowed out with justifiable confidence, playing cherished classics alongside strong newer songs

The collection comprises two surviving reels of radio sessions, the music a mix of folk, soul, funk and Afrobeat

A dash of everything from rembetika to kezmer, with a side helping of electronic jazz

Tracks include a condemnation of ego and materialism and an incantation that unites even as it distinguishes

The songs deal with the domestic and the personal, the kora weaving through the melancholy melodies with focus

A wide-ranging concert by Master Musicians from the Aga Khan’s Music Initative

Miriam Tamar and GNL Zamba’s singing and rapping, respectively, are a perfect mix of soulful and direct

The Beninese singer performed her reimagined version of a classic Talking Heads album

The soundscape combines the deep rumble of the TR-808, laden with distortion and filters, with organic instruments

Laura Marling’s words nod to Victorian Gothic as Mike Lindsay’s keyboard sounds shimmer like the Aurora Borealis

Perhaps the finest moment comes when ‘The Galaxy Song’ from Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning Of Life’ is sung

All the elments were in perfect balance in this joint performance

The singer’s second solo album employs swirling guitar riffs, racing percussion and sparkling kora

Two new albums find the long-overlooked Caribbean genre to be alive and well

An album of songs and rhythms that evoke images of the supernatural through chanting and drumming

The album travels through a variety of musical styles with songs that celebrate pan-Africanism, women and youth

An intimate and wide-ranging performance from the Senegalese singer

The Indian-born artist sings about the artificial divides imposed by religion, regret and temptations of despair

Artists’ new collaboration is partly themed around the osprey and uses jagged notes, bluesy slippages and silences

Two previous albums which show the diversity of the trumpeter’s work make a welcome reappearance in full

The South African group offers a deconstructed punk twist on old township music using drums, whistles and vocals

The Haitian-Canadian singer on the inspirations for her latest album and stage project

The Mexican band widen their horizons with imagery from Ancient Egypt and the Hispanic old world

The mix of atonal improvisation and medievalism is scrumped from the same orchard as 1970s prog-folk