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Ok-Oyot System
By Extra Golden
Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ilando Gima Onge; It's Not Easy; Ok-Oyot System; Osama Rach; Tussin and Fightin';
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Extra Golden: Ok-Oyot System
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Otieno Jagwasi is the quintessential benga musician. Born in Kenya's western Luo-speaking Nyanza Province, the cradle of the local style, he was a child prodigy on the fiddle-like orutu, which, when transposed to electric guitar, became the substrate of benga. He played with Circle K, a band that split off from benga godfather D.O. Misiani's Shirati ...