Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino draw on the ancient Greek roots of the music of Italy’s southern-most tip, Puglia. But, as this album demonstrates, in these times of globalised uniformity this band’s output is an infectious breath of resistance reaching far beyond those origins.

Quaranta draws on pizzica taranta, a trance-inducing sound generated by the tamburello frame drum, which is augmented by bouzouki, violin, accordion and bagpipes to underscore extraordinarily evocative vocal harmonies which engage from the very first note.

The lyrics are almost entirely political: “All of us are broke/Mona Lisa’s smiling/but we don’t get the joke,” they sing in I Love Italia, before challenging the ecological wisdom of the Azerbaijan to Europe gas pipeline in TAP or confront the tragedy of migrants left to fend for themselves in Solo Andata — One-Way Ticket. Brilliant.