By turns visceral, touching, transporting and illuminating, this set of 15 duets featuring the Brussels-born, Paris-based vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist David Linx is a collection that stays with you long after the final bar of the extraordinarily powerful ‘Como La Cigarra’ fades away. Penned by the Argentinean writer and composer, Maria Elena Walsh, Linx is accompanied on this particular song by the gorgeous playing of pianist Gustavo Beytelmann.

Appropriately, Linx describes the album as being “a way of continuing to evolve over and over again and remind me of my youth when I rushed into everything I didn't know, with a curiosity that is still intact”. And it’s this incredible artistic curiosity which makes Be My Guest such an enriching listening experience. Whether it’s the nearly eight-minute meditation on ‘Round Midnight’ in the company of pianist Tigran Hamasyan, the intricate polyphonic web of interlocking lines that Linx creates with fellow vocalist Theo Bleckmann in ‘Waves’, or the incredibly poignant album opener, ‘Letter to Trevor’, in which writer and filmmaker Trevor Baldwin recites a letter penned to him when he was a two-month-old baby by his uncle, the late, great writer and playwright, James Baldwin, Linx’s unerring choice of collaborators enables each song to take flight in a magical way.

Other highlights include the exquisite sound of the cavaquinho(a small, four-stringed member of the guitar family) in ‘Pagina De Dor’, courtesy of Rio-born musician Hamilton De Holanda, the incredibly beautiful timbre of cellist Éric-Maria Couturier in ‘Making Do, Making New’, and the understated electronica of ‘The Bystander Effect’, featuring keys player Diederik Wissels, which sees Linx’s increasingly stacked-up vocal riff panning left to right and back again.