My brother Matt just turned my on to Extra Golden's Ok-Oyot System, an amazing hybrid of Kenyan benga music and Washington D.C. alt-post-whatever-rock. Alex Minoff and Ian Eagleson of Golden hooked up with Kenyans Otieno Jagwasi and Onyango Wuod Omari as a result of Ian's doctoral research into Kenyan music, and they recorded this album shortly before Otieno passed away last year. It's really beautiful, sort of spacey and funky at the same time. You can listen to all the tracks on Thrill Jockey's site, where you can also download them for $10, saving $3 off the price of a CD.
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