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Songhoy Blues return to London to play a much-anticipated gig at Kentish Town’s O2 Forum on Friday the 25th of January. The Malian blues group is now well-known due to their unique yet accessible sound and in part due to their tumultuous formation – the band members left their home...
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Back in 2013, the story of Songhoy Blues made the headlines. After being forced to move to Bamako by a jihadist group that banned music in northern Mali, Garba Touré founded the band “to recreate that lost ambience of the north and make all the refugees relive those northern songs”....
If your music is strong enough to overcome religious fundamentalism and exile, how can a narrow-minded visa denial possibly harm it? That’s why Songhoy Blues, without their original bass player (who was stuck in Bamako because of an issue with his documents) performed a show to remember at Omeara. Introduced expertly,...
Although the story behind how Aliou Touré, Garba Touré, Oumar Touré and Nathaneal Dembélé became Songhoy Blues is not all roses — they were forced to fled to the capital Bamako after northern Mali was occupied by jihadists — their music is everything but sorrowful. A sold-out Roundhouse could not...
Since their formation in 2012, Malian band, Songhoy Blues have found themselves very much on the rise. Following a highly successful 2015 marked by their debut album Music in Exile, they will be returning to London on 21st May at the Roundhouse. As a celebration of music ‘from Mali and...
“Music In Exile” is available now http://smarturl.it/MusicInExile Directed & produced by Wes Teshome Cinematography by Josh McKie Songhoy Blues on the Web: https://www.facebook.com/SonghoyBlues https://twitter.com/songhoyblues https://instagram.com/songhoyblues/
Songhoy Blues are a music mystery: the more they become popular and people listen to their music, the more they defy any definition. There are those who say that the four musicians from Gao are the last true desert blues interpreters, then there are critics affirming that they sound psychedelic,...
