This second update of new music from West Africa touches down on musicians in three countries with dramatically different approaches. Senegalese singer Thione Seck has created a multiethnic international fusion that combines West African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian styles in an integrated whole. Benin's Gangbé Brass Band incorporates interlocking drumming, a rich instrumental sound, and warm vocals to tie together strains of music that stretch as far away as New Orleans and as close as Nigeria. Finally, Cape Verde's latest superstar vocalist, Lura, has concocted a honey-sweet collection of hip-swaying grooves that impart a genuine sense of joy about life itself.