Adrian Phillips reaches for the cod liver oil as he recuperates from a Staff Benda Bilili gig. "I’ve been to some amazing gigs and, hopefully, I will go to more, but for raw, pulsating energy and sheer joy of the music I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything quite like Staff Benda Bilili at the O2 in Oxford on Friday night.

Adrian Phillips reflects that some creative marriages are just meant to be; Galton & Simpson, Gilbert & Sullivan, Little & Large! OK maybe not the last one, but you get my drift...so what of Realworld's latest pairing...

Adrian Phillips has a listen to not one but two new releases by Baka Beyond and aserts that western artists like Peter Gabriel, One Giant Leap and Simon ‘Afro-Celt’ Emerson have often used original field recordings as the basis for many a finished track, but never have they released them in their own right - cue a flood of emails to the contrary.