Finis Africae - Amazonia (1990, Reissue 2016)

Given the recent proliferation of new releases doffing a cap to both new age music and ethnic sounds from around the World, this reissue of Finis Africae's 1990 set Amazonia seems rather timely. A solo production by long-serving main man Juan Alberto Arteche, the album's ten tracks blend traditional Amazonian instrumentation, tropical birdsong and gentle rhythms with the new age synthesizer refrains with which the Spanish act made their name. From a historical perspective, the album originally appeared at the same time as the ambient house explosion was gathering pace in the UK, and it's easy to draw parallels between Arteche's compositions - as ethnically-minded, jazzy and occasionally experimental as they are - and the work of The KLF and The Orb during the period.