SONGHOY BLUES

Obliged to flee Timbuktu in 2012 with the rise of Islamist jihadists (banning even music), these four young Malians, despite exile, have worked to perpetuate and bring to life the sound of northern Mali with the fever of desert blues. Knighted by illustrious Anglo-Saxon patrons (Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Nick Zinner), Songhoy Blues is recognised to be leader of a new generation of Malian artists, mixing ancestral groove, incendiary guitar riffs, unanswerable syncopations and haunting melodies.Their rock and pop flavoured universal blues resonates, facing censorship and prohibition as a brilliant instinct of life …