Nigerien composer Mammane Sani Abdullaye was already well known for his TV and radio compositions when he came across an Italian Orlo organ in 1978. With it he produced some of the most groundbreaking music on the continent at the time, weaving  these entrancing, languid soundscapes that sound like something that would be beamed down from outer space. The songs are based on folkloric music of the Wodaabe and Tuareg tribes, but in the hands of Mammane Sani, they take on a timeless, universal quality. There were only 100 tapes made of “La Musique Électronique Du Niger”, but one of these was discovered in a dusty archive by the guys at Sahel Sounds, who reissued the album in 2013.