#songhoy

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Ever wanted to hear the Black Keys actually making hip hop beats? This is it. It’s a great record with some great verses, but by the end I think they ran out of ideas. Listen here.

Songhoy Blues have announced details of the release of their debut album, Music In Exile, which is released on Transgressive Records on Monday 23rd February 2015. The tracklisting of the Nick Zinner / Marc-Antoine Moreau produced album is as follows: 1. Soubour 2. Irganda 3. Al Hassidi Terei 4. Jolie 5. Desert Melodie 6. Mali 7. Sekou Oumarou 8. Nick 9. Al Tchere Bele 10. Wayei 11. Petit Metier The album will be preceded by the release of a single Al Hassidi Terei / Mali on Monday 8th December 2014. The single will be available on 7” and digitally. Once one of the most prominent and powerful of Mali’s many ethnic groups, the Songhoy, who hail from the banks of the Niger River between the ancient cities of Timbuktu and Gao, have suffered a long slow decline since their apogee in the 6th and 17th centuries. Now largely living on the margins of the West African nation whose political and cultural life is dominated by the Bambara people of the south, they nonetheless retain a fierce pride in their history, beliefs and music.