Boss bossa originally released in 1970 on the Mexican label Orfeon, with Laercio De Freitas having replaced founder-member Luiz Eca. Sunny, little-known versions of Veracruz, Zazueira, Pais Tropical and the rest.

The dramatic, rough-hewn, brilliant debut recordings of the Quintet from 1961. Two original LPs — the first mostly AP arrangements, the second mostly his compositions, including Adios Nonino, on his dad’s death.

The Uruguayans’ first, best Milestone album — Airto producing, Hermeto Pascoal guesting, with the jazz-dance bomb African Bird. A buzzing, seamless blend of jazz-fusion flash with diverse rootical influences.

Playful, melodic, tropical pop, up-to-the-minute but with roots in seventies Brazilian music. Featuring a stellar cast of top young Brazilian artists; and a smash there last summer.

The dignified, expressive music of Andean Indians — the huayno, the slower tonado, the syncopated pascua — sung and played on charangos and guitarrillas by the Alvis Family, including Barbara, aged eighty-six.

From 1980, Recife, Brazil: ‘crazed ethno folkrock; magical, gentle, jungle folk psych zones; hard-hitting, coke-dusted fuzz rock; insane mutant disco dancefloor groove; tweaked Americana; acid vocal raga trance.’

Magnificent singing — sweet, husky, powerfully soulful — by this semba master from Angola, for thirty years now a tireless crusader for anti-colonialism and the old one-two of peace and rebellion.