Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra is a collaboration between the labels Seance Centre and Smiling C. Both imprints, in the past, have championed experimental Mexican music, reissuing work by Eblen Macari and German Bringas, respectively. These two artists also appear on this new 17-track compilation. The only other name that I personally recognise is Jorge Reyes, who’s previously been the subject of Optimo Music and Emotional Rescue’s attention.

Arbol Perenne, who records as Gabo, generates graceful, romantic serenades, with just guitar and reverb. Most of the music selected has the guitar as its lead or guide. Antonio Zepeda collaborates with Macari, Reyes, and also Eugenio Toussaint, on tracks that take in woodwinds, hand claps, and the bucolic Brownian motion of tiny gamelan gongs. Sensitive, sympathetic percussion showering tunes full of spiritual temple textures. La Fabula’s contributions feature flutes, field-recorded fauna, Spanish picking and strumming. Armando Velasco’s pieces push piano to the fore, but also spotlight Fender Rhodes and saxophone. His Dafne is a slowly evolving synthscape, shimmering with sustain, while Una Vez is a wonderful wordless, soaring ballad. The abstract ambience of Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma’s Evos Luz is also dominated by a distorted reed. Isaac Alva’s 6-string treatments on Vuelo Azul are Durutti Column in tone, if not frenetic dexterity. Vistas Fijas’ Dias De Margarita is one of my personal favourites, where castanets click within its computerised rhythm, which is a sort of super slowed motorik. Like a Latin-flavoured Joy Division, or early, Martin Hannett-produced New Order.

The compilation takes its name from a public access TV show that provided a platform for many of the artists included, and the set pulls in obvious comparisons with Music From Memory’s John Gomez-curated Outro Tempo series. This does for Mexico, what they did for Brazil. The musicians here, similarly, sought to mix modern machines with ancient, traditional instruments. The album is so perfectly put together, so seamlessly sequenced, that you could be forgiven for thinking that the tracks are all by the same artist. It’s nearly all terribly tasteful chilled-out stuff, with something ceremonial in the pacing. The pieces being mainly sceneries, but there are some songs, such as Bringas’s Non Observan. Its most dance floor moment is Zepeda and Reyes’ Nosotros Éramos Los Colibrís De Tus Sueños, whose spooky, tribal chanting is definitely afro / cosmic compatible.

Triángulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra is out now, care of Seance Centre and Smiling C.