Abdel Gadir Salim All-Stars

Gadir Salim has been crafting some of the most gorgeous African music since the mid-1980s, when his band traveled to Europe to raise awareness about a famine then ravaging Ethiopia and Sudan. This album's rolling rhythms and spare, spacious feel are softened by Ethiopian-style sax, traditional oud and violins and Salim's singing, which defines understated emotion.