Lahore's Sachal Studios Orchestra inevitably invites comparisons with the Buena Vista Social Club: several Sachal members are veteran session players retired since the 1980s due to various anti-music zealotries, now back in musical action thanks to the efforts of jazz-loving international businessman Izzat Majeed. This new album's programme of Sachalised standards by Brel, Jobim, Lennon/McCartney and others is smooth-jazzier and more improvisationally inhibited than 2011's Sachal Jazz (delightfully arranged by the late Riaz Hussain, and memorable for its tabla-racing Take Five, microtonal Desafinado, and Pat Methenyesque Asian hoedowns), while there are flashes of that set's cross-cultural surprises on the breathless, sitar-led Blue Rondo a La Turk, a tender You've Got It Bad Girl, and a touching mingling of sitar and harmonica on REM's Everybody Hurts. If you don't have Sachal Jazz, that album is a better bet – but reports from last month's Wynton Marsalis collaboration in New York suggest the most creative phase of Sachal Studios' heartening story of renewal might be just beginning.