What was the hippest guy in Malaysia cooking up in the early 1970s? Tiga Trombone provides the answer in sharp, surprising detail: eleven variegated songs rolled forth like a pin-wheeling time capsule let out of the box. The first one, “Masth Chantani,” is driven by percussion that blends the timbre and beats of Asia and Africa — tabla-taut and talking-drum-woozy — adorned by sinuous strings that could be Arabic or Indian.
Next up is “Ida,” another package of dynamic contrasts, with a searing baritone sax inevitably indebted to Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, mitigated by winsome flutes that just as inevitably recall the paisley and flowers optimism of the hippie counterculture, with some jazzy electric keyboard riffs thrown in for bonding. Down at…