Sababa 5

Tel Aviv's Sababa 5 are a quintet of hard-working musos who have loaned their talents to a boatload of Israeli artists, from Afro-soul singer Gili Yalo to producer Kutiman's live Orchestra. The groove-centred, instrumental music that they make has all the slick precision you’d expect from a congress of top session musicians and their debut album glistens with a carefully produced, studio-savvy, digital professionalism.

So, it is amusing that Sababa 5's jams draw heavily on various different street-level sounds from the analogue 1970s and 80s. It's a pan-global brew that's increasingly popular among millennial vamp-merchants – from the aforementioned Kutiman to Dutch-Turkish sextet Altın Gün – who have grown up with the world's musical treasures just a mouse click away. Take a measure of Somali synth-pop, then add a dose of Turkish psych, a pinch of Afrobeat and a soupçon of Iranian funk and you end up with this actually rather bland blend.

Still, Sababa 5 have the musicianship to inject some intrigue. Eitan Drabkin's Moog synth licks add a kitsch flavour throughout, and ‘Showroom 180’ proposes a laid-back open-top soundtrack with motorik drums, some tasty Wes Montgomery-style guitar and a heat-haze synth wash. Assured, knowing and ultimately devoid of risk, it's library music for the Netflix generation.