Here’s a deep cut from Santana… No, it isn’t. It’s by a school band from Nigeria called Ofege, recorded back in the early ’70s.

The band was formed at St. Gregory’s College in Lagos by a group of boys with a fondness for weed and the guitar solos of Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

Aged just 15, 16 and 17 when they recorded their debut, their sound joins the dots between the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the West Coast psychedelic of Arthur Lee’s Love.

Their songs, built around psychedelic fuzz-funk rhythms, served mainly as excuses to launch into insane distorted guitar solos along the lines of Eddie Hazel’s in the epic Funkadelic instrumental Maggot Brain.

The boys were still at school when they made their debut album Try And Love, released in 1973, with added guitar wizardry overdubbed by a local session guitarist called Berkley Jones.

Sadly their career came to a halt after just four albums that failed to bring them recognition outside Nigeria, despite being part of a scene that included several other bands such as Blo, The Funkees and Ofo The Black Company.