This is an album that comes not only with great music but also a great story attached. In Lahore a group of musicians, at risk from extremists at home, had an unexpected viral hit with their version of Dave Brubeck's ‘Take Five’ and were invited to perform at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis. A film entitled Song of Lahore was made about the musicians' journey to New York. This album isn't a soundtrack of the film, but rather a companion piece: 13 tracks recorded (mostly) in New York and (a bit) in Lahore, pairing the Sachal Ensemble with a series of Western singers and soloists on a selection of canonical cuts from the 20th-century songbook: Sean Lennon sings an arrangement of ‘(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding' that reminds you of The Beatles' psychedelic debt to the Indian musical tradition; Madeleine Peyroux does ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child/Mai Ni’; Meryl Streep delivers the words on ‘Speak’, a setting of a poem by Nobel nominee Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Other song selections draw on the back catalogues of Dylan, Marley, Wonder, Ellington and Michael Jackson (‘Man in the Mirror’). It's a charming mixed bag – and a really good, upbeat story about global musical harmony.