Lo'Jo have at last begun to win the recognition they deserve, as the most inventive multi-cultural fusion band in France.

This is their best album to date, in which the moody, soulful French chanson of singer-songwriter and keyboard player Denis Péan collides with a startling array of global sounds, from Gypsy fiddle and manic fairground organ through to funk, dub, contemporary dance beats, and a whole array of Arabic and African instruments and influences that reflect their travels.

Many of the songs start as tuneful ballads, but are then hijacked by a band who can switch from the reggae and funk of Rambling Talk (a song about slavery, sung in English) to the acoustic African workout of Le Poème de Japonais. The rousing, yelping Tangito, in which Pean's vocals are paired with the Arabic exuberance of Nadia and Yamina El Mourid, provides further evidence of how Lo'Jo have shaken up French pop.