Ibeyi @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 10 November

There’s a strange, special warmth to the Ibeyi twins. It's in their spine-shivering harmonies, and in their sparse, precise percussion. More than anything, though, it’s in Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz’s emphatic enjoyment of their own music.

A deceptively simple set-up of keys, a drum pad, a cajón drum and a batá drum – and two mics – offer a backdrop for this singular brew of polished beats and thoughtful, soulful story-telling. Lisa-Kainde (lead vocals and song writing duties) conducts the evening with grace and grandeur from behind her keyboard, while Naomi supplies the beating heart of the show through a storm of drums and vigorous, physical percussion.

The sisters communicate non-verbally, acting with eerie synchronicity for a commanding, intuitive performance that – on the surface at least – appears completely effortless. Their near sold-out audience is spell-bound, hanging on every word as Lisa-Kainde takes time to carefully introduce their Yoruban and Cuban influences. 

Improv audience participation during Mama Says – on record, a slow-burning reflection on their mother's grief – sees the previously rapt room dissolve into giggles, as King Tut's enthusiastically demolishes the ending of the ballad, egged on by a gleeful Naomi. 

Glasgow’s inability to hold a note doesn’t deter Ibeyi from encouraging a throaty sing-along to close the evening, either; in appreciation of their last UK tour date, the twins step out from behind their respective equipment to whip up a rowdy rendition of album-opener River. Their haunting chorus of “I will come to you river / wash my soul” doesn't sound so spiritual in our infinitely less capable hands, but it somehow feels just as cathartic. [Katie Hawthorne]