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In his ongoing, early 1990s search for the elusive Little Richard cover, Peel’s trawl through his collection of 7-inch singles turned up this collaboration between Daniel Owino Misiani, better known as the band leader with Sherati Jazz, and the Central K Jazz Band. Bought by Peel while on holiday in Kenya in 1972, Z. Oluoch is a fusion of Kenyan benga, soukous, folk and jazz - well there’s a saxophone popping up towards the end of the recording at least.
In keeping with the period, it all sounds sweatily close, almost like a field recording. Peel reckoned that it must have been 20 years since he played it on the radio, though he jovially suspected that Andy Kershaw would have probably played it within the previous couple of weeks.
Peel in Kenya, 1972 - taken from Margrave of the Marshes
Video courtesy of La Meilliure Musique Africaine.
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