ZORRO FIVE - Jump Uptight LP Independent Alec Khaoli recalled

Alec Khaoli recalled

percussion and heavy artillery

With many tracks built around the dense all-or-nothing sibilation of a Vox Jaguar organ

posthumous release in a greatest hits package

teetering between acoustic instrumentation and digital manipulation — a push and pull between discordance and tranquility

ZORRO FIVE - Jump Uptight LP Independent Alec Khaoli recalledSouth African take on the London Beat scene, mixing British beat, R&B, reggae and funk. Zorro Five were a South African studio band comprising Johnny Boshoff (bass), Archie van der Ploeg (guitar), Tony Moore (drums), Johnny Fourie (guitar) and Zane Cronje (keyboard and organ). They won the Best Beat Group at the 1971 South African Recording Industry Award for the album Jump Uptight. The single Reggae Shhh! b w Reggae Meadowlands was an underground hit