The finest good-time acoustic band in Marseilles go back to their roots. Moussu T and his friends started out influenced by Jamaican reggae, but then decided to reflect all the musical styles that washed into their port city, from blues to music hall. Now they have turned to songs from the Marseilles Operettas, the music and comedy revue shows that were popular across France in the 1930s. There's one album of the original music, with orchestral backing, and another featuring the same songs reworked by the band, with singer Tatou in rousing form, backed by bass, two percussionists and slinky, rhythmic banjo and guitar work from Blu. It works because, as Tatou says, "these are not museum pieces", but sturdy, melodic pop songs mixing Provençal influences with a dash of jazz and country, and he ends with an Occitan-language treatment of a song made popular in France by Josephine Baker. Delightful.