SONGHOY BLUES - Optimisme LP (colour vinyl) industrial Even the pure rock numbers

Even the pure rock numbers incorporate the bottled excitement of 808s in Chicago and Detroit

Biting Tongues' bass-driven

rockabilly and instrumental rock

and the Sextet became unofficially known as the Mwandishi Band

SONGHOY BLUES - Optimisme LP (colour vinyl) industrial Even the pure rock numbersLimited edition gold colour vinyl. Their lead guitarist is a distant relative of the late Ali Farka Toure, the legendary Mali desert blues musician, but the young generation are no traditionalists. They mix the complex rhythms and guitar lines of their tradition with hard rock and psychedelia into three minute statements.