Their sound has variously encompassed dub reggae, funk, Ethiopian jazz, Turkish psychedelia, south-east Asian pop and Latin American cumbia without being dominated by any of them: on 2020’s fabulous Mordechai, the result was hazily psychedelic, unplaceable and utterly beguiling. Since 2015, Khruangbin have specialised in a kind of musical fusion that recalls the late trumpeter Jon Hassell’s notion of fourth world music, which drew from so many global sources that it ended up evoking an alternative universe.

Hard on the heels of June’s sparse, straightforward homage to his father’s sound, Les Racines, comes Ali, which reinterprets some of his father’s best-known songs with Houston trio Khruangbin, a musical union that was apparently sealed in a London pub over fish and chips.

His latest collaboration might be his most impressive to date. His collaborative album with the latter, Touristes, featured covers of both Bob Dylan’s Masters of War and Fever Ray’s I’m Not Done. And he teams up with the kind of collaborators who push his music further afield, among them Israeli composer and pianist Idan Raichel, jazz guitarist John Scofield and experimental US vocalist Julia Easterlin. He has toured the US and Europe relentlessly. His eponymous 2007 debut album was swiftly followed by a remix collection, which streamlined his sound for dancefloors. Certainly, he’s attempted to court a mainstream audience more assiduously than his dad ever did. Perhaps a desire to step out of his father’s considerable shadow has informed the approach of Vieux Farka Touré.

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