SONGHOY BLUES
''MUSIC IN EXILE''
2015
39:21
1 Soubour 03:30
2 Irganda 03:19
3 Al Hassidi Terei 03:42
4 Sekou Oumarou 03:31
5 Nick 03:54
6 Ai Tchere Bele 03:30
7 Wayei 04:08
8 Petit Metier 04:19
9 Jolie 02:59
10 Desert Melodie 03:06
11 Mali 03:18
ABOUT
By africaexpress.co.uk
Songhoy Blues are a young desert blues punk band from Timbuktu, Mali. The band were exiled to Bamako during the recent unrest in Mali, when Africa Express first heard their music and invited them to record at the ‘Maison des Jeunes’ youth club in Mali’s capital in 2013.
The resulting track ‘Soubour‘ was one of the outstanding songs on the ‘Maison des Jeunes‘ album, which we released via Transgressive records later that year. Since then the band have been increasingly in demand on the international touring circuit and this December sees the release of their first single ‘Al Hassidi Terei’. The track has already received plays on BBC Radio 1, XFM and has been playlisted at BBC6 Music. Their debut album, ‘Music in Exile’, produced by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), will be released on Transgressive Records in 2015.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Rich Wilson
Formed in 2012 at university in Bamako, Mali by Oumar Touré, Aliou Touré, and Garba Touré, Songhoy Blues was born out of the frustration of the unrest that was happening in the north of Mali, which had forced them to seek refuge in the south. Drafting in drummer Nathanael Dembele, the group became a regular fixture on the Bamako live music scene, until their unique brand of traditional and modern songwriting -- a style similar to that led by the likes of fellow countrymen Ali Farka Touré and Baba Salah -- was picked up by French manager Marc-Antoine Moreau on behalf of the label Africa Express. Songhoy Blues' first recorded material appeared on the compilation Maison des Jeunes, after they were invited to record with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner. After a show in support of the album brought them to the U.K. at the end of 2013, the band returned the following year to play a handful of gigs in London, Glasgow, and at the legendary WOMAD Festival. While in the U.K. the group signed a deal with Transgressive Records and quickly returned to the studio with Zinner in 2014 to record their debut album. Music in Exile -- which featured guitar work by Zinner as well as backing vocals from Blur's Damon Albarn -- was released in February 2015.
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''MUSIC IN EXILE''
2015
39:21
1 Soubour 03:30
2 Irganda 03:19
3 Al Hassidi Terei 03:42
4 Sekou Oumarou 03:31
5 Nick 03:54
6 Ai Tchere Bele 03:30
7 Wayei 04:08
8 Petit Metier 04:19
9 Jolie 02:59
10 Desert Melodie 03:06
11 Mali 03:18
ABOUT
By africaexpress.co.uk
Songhoy Blues are a young desert blues punk band from Timbuktu, Mali. The band were exiled to Bamako during the recent unrest in Mali, when Africa Express first heard their music and invited them to record at the ‘Maison des Jeunes’ youth club in Mali’s capital in 2013.
The resulting track ‘Soubour‘ was one of the outstanding songs on the ‘Maison des Jeunes‘ album, which we released via Transgressive records later that year. Since then the band have been increasingly in demand on the international touring circuit and this December sees the release of their first single ‘Al Hassidi Terei’. The track has already received plays on BBC Radio 1, XFM and has been playlisted at BBC6 Music. Their debut album, ‘Music in Exile’, produced by Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), will be released on Transgressive Records in 2015.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Rich Wilson
Formed in 2012 at university in Bamako, Mali by Oumar Touré, Aliou Touré, and Garba Touré, Songhoy Blues was born out of the frustration of the unrest that was happening in the north of Mali, which had forced them to seek refuge in the south. Drafting in drummer Nathanael Dembele, the group became a regular fixture on the Bamako live music scene, until their unique brand of traditional and modern songwriting -- a style similar to that led by the likes of fellow countrymen Ali Farka Touré and Baba Salah -- was picked up by French manager Marc-Antoine Moreau on behalf of the label Africa Express. Songhoy Blues' first recorded material appeared on the compilation Maison des Jeunes, after they were invited to record with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner. After a show in support of the album brought them to the U.K. at the end of 2013, the band returned the following year to play a handful of gigs in London, Glasgow, and at the legendary WOMAD Festival. While in the U.K. the group signed a deal with Transgressive Records and quickly returned to the studio with Zinner in 2014 to record their debut album. Music in Exile -- which featured guitar work by Zinner as well as backing vocals from Blur's Damon Albarn -- was released in February 2015.
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WEBSITE
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