Orkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast

These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will delight at the magnificent way in which this ten-strong maverick crew has been captured on CD. Even anybody who has not seen the Orkestra del Sol's unique and spectacular cross of hybrid Balkan brass and slapstick funk will find themselves bouncing around with manic grins and yearning for the full live experience, which thankfully is always close to hand. Following on from Carnival by Stealth and last year's Road to Thermosa EP, The Moveable Feast touches on all the musical delights that make the band so special: huge horn-led stomps, calypso, funk and zouk all wrapped in impeccable arrangements calculated to hit you right in the dancing gland. With a line-up of trumpet, trombone, sousaphone, soprano, alto and tenor saxes, accordion, fiddle and two percussionists, their sound is full, warm and deliciously chaotic. This is true sun worship. [Ali Maloney]