Here, acoustic guitar songs featuring tight, rhythmic chanting vocals and hand-claps dominated much of this often low-key set.
The fusion is at its best on Poze, which eases from chanting vocals to a blues-rock guitar riff, and Pa Bat Kòw, which includes a rousing percussion workout.
Driven on by a battery of hand drums, El Tanbura mix chanting vocals with the desert flute, the nay, and the ancient lyre, the simsimiyya, that looks like something you'd find on a painting in a Pharoah's tomb.
Here was a dance band leader who mixed massed African percussion with chanting vocals and guitar lines, a dash of pedal steel guitar, and extended workouts worthy of the Grateful Dead, all to rousing effect.
A key contributor tonight was former Weather Report percussionist Manolo Badrena, with his palette of bird calls, water sounds, chanting vocals and crackling rejoinders to the dynamic drumming of Herlin Riley.
The African-influenced Danmbala Elouwe is a driving, percussive piece driven on by guitars and chanting vocals, while Negrès Katye Moren is a gloriously funky treatment of a song once performed by Morse's mother, with keyboard work that echoes Stevie Wonder, and the exuberant Otsya features hand-made horns that date back to the slave era.
Urban Folktales organically joins six rich-textured pieces, embracing softly pulsing minimalism reminiscent of the Necks, recorded speech from Apollo space missions from which deep brass and chanting vocals rise, and a standout track in the almost 20-minute Reve Africain.
They came from Recife, in the north-east, and played a key role in the Mangue Bit movement, reviving and updating local styles such as forro, maracatu and ciranda with a rousing blend of chanting vocals, fiddles, percussion and electric guitar.
Following his recent Heartbreakers piece for THUMP, on this exclusive premiere the Turbo Recordings man does the damage, boilng down Celeste's soulful, chanting vocals and making like it's peak time in your nearest smutty warehouse rave.
The Chant vocal synthesis technique is listed a spectral modeling technique because it is a variation on formant synthesis.
