I love the Four Brothers track posted. I bought the album Makorokoto on vinyl when it was widely released in the late 1980s. One of my earlier World Music adventures. The album cover on vinyl is so much better than the one on CD.
Sad news about Tony Allen. I only found out today. On one of the occasions I went to Womad in my late 40s, I was on a shuttle bus full of people half my age and less and none of them wanted to speak about any of the young acts. It was all "Tony Allen - so cool, this - and the stand out, that." All very interesting, seeing that it turned out he hadn't played there that year. But he had just released an album which they had listened to in their tents and felt was better than anything live.
Dare I say that one of Thomas Dolby's finest works is "Steve McQueen" by Prefab Sprout?. No, perhaps not - although it is. Dolby aural architecture. Stunning - especially on side one and the first half of side two. NME loved it for some years.