Songhoy Blues
The Village Underground, Shoreditch, London, UK
2015-05-28

Recorded and mastered by Pike1957:
Recorded from up front, slightly right of centre
Church Audio CA-11C Cardioids ->
Church Audio ST-9000 Preamp ->
Sony PCM-M10 (48khz, 24 bit) ->
Adobe Auditon 3.0 (level adjustments) ->
Audacity (track splits, resampling) ->
FLAC (level 8, 44.1khz, 16bit) -> you

If you haven't heard this band yet, now is your chance.
Really exciting band, full of energy. Desert punk blues from Mali.
Reeps One (beatbox guy) opened, and joined the Songhoy Blues
singer for Mali (first encore song). The rest of the band then
returned, giving us a beatbox, drummer dual!

Sound quality is very good.

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 was released via Transgressive records
later that year. Since then the band have been increasingly in demand
on the international touring circuit and last December saw 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),
was released on Transgressive Records in February 2015.

Setlist:

01 - [intro]
02 - Sekou Oumarou
03 - Ai Tchere Bele
04 - Nick
05 - Petit Metier
06 - Wayei
07 - Unknown
08 - Unknown
09 - Unknown
10 - Unknown
11 - Irganda
12 - Al Hassidi Terei
13 - Mali (with Reeps One)
14 - Unknown
15 - Soubor

Help with setlist much appreciated.

Enjoy!