One of the most satisfying rediscoveries of the crate-digging phenomenon of recent years has been Ebo Taylor, the veteran Ghanaian purveyor of highlife, Afrobeat and pan-West African jazz-funk. Not only has most of his classic catalogue from the 70s and 80s been reissued, but the revival of interest in his work has led to new recordings. And at 83, he's still going strong.

Yet there's always one that got away, and Palaver is it. A long-lost, previously unreleased album, it was recorded in Nigeria in 1980 for the Tabansi label, on whose dusty shelves the tapes sat forgotten and unloved for almost 40 years. It's quite a find, too, ranging from the trad highlife of the title-track to the simmering Afrobeat brilliance of ‘Help Africa’ with some show-stopping Afro-blues sax blowing from George Abunuah. Apparently Taylor hates being called ‘the Fela Kuti of Ghana’ but you can hear why he earned the name.

Ebo Taylor Jr currently plays keyboards in his father's band but also came to our attention in the first flush of crate-digging when the splendid ‘Mondo Soul Funky’ appeared on Soundway's 2004 compilation Ghana Soundz Vol 2. Now we get the full 1978 album from which that track was taken and it's another great from the crate. The West African rhythms are heavily laced with the influence of Jamaican reggae and the New Orleans funk of The Meters.