Making an all-instrumental ostensibly jazz record like ‘Hurry Red Telephone’ has only served the underscore the easily identifiable but stubbornly unclassifiable sound of Marc Ribot.

The dogged determination of OM can be heard within the steely music they made on ‘Südpol.’

Ahleuchatistas long ago proved to be a ferocious live act, so ‘The Summer We Went West [and East] – Live 2006’ is a release that needed to happen.

‘Voortvlugtend,’ from South African cult-favorite Buckfever Underground, simply begs for repeated listening – preferably wearing big, scruffy earphones.