Cypriot musician Antonis Antonious fronts two bands – the bouzoukiand-horns threepiece Monsieur Doumani and the dubby rebetiko outfit Trio Tekke – who have both proved popular on the world-music circuit. His solo debut, recorded under lockdown, is a much punkier proposition. Antoniou plays a series of Middle Eastern-style modes and riffs on a Cypriot lute and a bouzouki-like instrument called a tzouras, but places it alongside drum machines, fuzz bass, scratchy guitar and analogue synths. The songs are darkly hypnotic nursery rhymes reminiscent, variously, of Tropicália (“Doulia”), Remain In Light-era Talking Heads (“Livanin”) or early Cabaret Voltaire (“Varella”). Hugely compelling stuff.