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Do you ever spend time wondering what might have happened to musicians? Perhaps Beaky of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch finally found happiness as a butcher, content to chop up meat and flirt with his customers. I can just see Limahl travelling door to door, trying to sell broadband, or persuade people to change their energy supplier. And what about Shakin' Stevens? A sad life there. Maybe he was the one who entered the care home too young in life, and now sits in a corner nodding his years away.

Of course, then the internet came along and spoiled all of our fun. Much harder to pretend to believe all of that when the answers are only a few minutes away.

Should you ever play this game and find yourself wondering what happened to Didier Malherbe of Gong, the answer is easy enough to come by. He's now part of the Hadouk Trio, who for the last decade have been making some very pleasing world jazz. It's thoroughly unpretentious music, happy to sound exactly the way it does. Drawing influences from an area stretching from North Africa to the Caucasus, here's Suave Corridor. It's the opening track from their 2006 release, Utopies. Saying that it's comfortable sounds like really faint praise, but it's not meant to be. It's like the session beer of music. Tasty.

Hadouk Trio - Suave Corridor