Nearly three decades into their creative partnership, Aesop Rock and Blockhead are still finding new ways to make the everyday sound wonderfully peculiar. Ants pairs Aesop’s trademark labyrinthine wordplay with Blockhead’s dusty, off-kilter production. Creating a wonderfully restless little universe where even the smallest creatures seem to have complicated lives. Brain food with a beat, basically.

Kamal. has a knack for making understated soul feel like a conversation you weren’t quite ready to end. Ditto! is our excuse to slip back into his world of warm melodies, intimate vocals and effortlessly cool songwriting. No unnecessary fireworks, no emotional gymnastics. Just a little musical understanding, served with plenty of feeling. Sometimes less really is considerably more.

Parisian multidisciplinary artist Oko Ebombo has never been particularly interested in staying inside the lines. Moving between music, movement and performance, his artistic universe has always had a distinctive rhythm of its own. African Star gives us another opportunity to step into that wonderfully individual world, where identity, heritage and artistic expression make for an intriguing meeting of minds. A little left of centre, a little out of the ordinary, and all the better for it.