Origine Orients sees the Lebanese musician Abaji touring the Eastern Mediterranean, singing in Turkish, Greek, French, Arabic and in his grandfather’s Armenian.

But this is essentially an instrumentalist’s album: Abaji plays all the instruments here, from a hybrid oud-guitar to a bamboo flute. All mingle: ‘Menz Baba’, about his grandfather, has a strummed bouzouki melody but hard on its heels follows ‘Hidden Soul’, with Armenia’s characteristic mournful bass duduk; the bowed lyre of ‘Steppo’ chimes with sequins tinkling around the hips of a dancer.