Around Félicité OST

It comes as a surprise when, three songs in, the signature buzz, clatter and twang of the Congolese collective Kasai Allstars gives way to the elegiac sound of a classical choir. Had I sat on the remote and hopped over to Radio 3? No, I'd failed to note that this was a film soundtrack also featuring the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste. They make a further two appearances and, rather than the contrast being jarring, it actually works very well – a calm after the storm of percussion, guitars and amplified thumb pianos.

But as is often the case, the second CD of remixes is more of a remixed bag. The producers who get it right cast a fresh light on their source material, but the ones who get it wrong might as well not have bothered. For example, Daedelus drowns ‘Drowning Goat’: it could be a different piece of music altogether, as it charges off down its own drum'n'bass blind alley. But the Vincent Kenis-produced first disc is a beauty that should make you keen to see the award-winning Alain Gomis film Around Félicité when it comes out in the UK in October. It tells the fictional story of a woman (played by Congolese actress Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu) who just happens to be a singer with Kasai Allstars, while she races through the streets of Kinshasa to save her son. I for one am intrigued.