True Jit by Bhundu Boys

True Jit was the Bhundu Boys' big step out of Zimbabwe, released in 1987 on Mango with Robin Millar producing and given an international release the following year. The band's name came from bhundu, meaning bush, a nod to the boys who helped nationalist guerrillas in the 1970s war in what was then Rhodesia, and their sound, jit, stirred chimurenga together with country, disco, pop and rock and roll until it was impossible to keep still.

Biggie Tembo sings lead over guitars that ripple and chime and rhythms that roll like a good mood you can't shake. Andy Kershaw, the British world music DJ, reckoned them about the most naturally catchy pop band he had ever heard, and John Peel wept the first time he saw them live. They took the album on a North American tour, and "My Foolish Heart" reached the countdowns. Over its first ten years it moved roughly 30,000 copies.

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