I’ve been working my way through the 17 Hippies album, Heimlich, finding that more than half the tracks could be being played on the radio at least once, an unusually high hit rate. In contrast, n the new album the Spanish singer, Miquel Gil, one song stood out. It was only as I started to write out the playlist, with ‘Tick Tack’ by 17 Hippies to open the show and ‘Tic Tac’ by Miquel Gil at number 5, that I realised the two songs had almost identical titles. Like twins separated at birth, here they are, reunited. Marvin & Johnny sang ‘Tick Tock’ but I can’t remember any other song called Tick Tack, with or without the ‘k’.

.A double album of field recordings of traditional Georgian songs is a bit more than I can easily digest, but one group stood out from everybody else, the Kesame Quartet. I hope the segue to The Aaron Sisters feels as logical to you as it did to me. They were among the new discoveries on Trikont’s compilation of female American country singers from the 1930s, Flowers in the Wildwood.     I’m open to requests to play the Dezurik Sisters again.

It’s been a long wait, but Manu Chao’s third album, La Radiolina, is better than I dared hope, a varied and often joyous collection of songs that I expect to revisit over the next few months, playing a different track each time.  

Having picked out Feral Öney as the discovery of the latest cover mount CD on fRoots Magazine’s August/September issue, I’ve been meaning to contact the Turkish label Kalan to ask for a copy of the album it was drawn from. But I still haven’t done it, so we played her song from the fRoots CD, once of the best ever and worth the price of the magazine all by itself. www.frootsmag.co.uk

In the first programme this year, I played one of two acoustic guitar instrumentals on the 2xCD compilation, African Pearls, Volume 2: Guinea by a group I’d never heard of before, African Virtuosos. They sounded more Spanish than African, and I wondered, was there more where those tracks came from? Now we have the answer, an entire album, issued for the first time on CD. Among the guitarists is Sekou Diabate, the celebrated electric guitarist with Bembeya Jazz National.  Perfect music for a summer’s afternoon, of which we have had about five this year in the UK. Maybe this album is destined to make its mark next year, or in the rest of the world.

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