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Songhoy Blues Came Together in Exile, but Its Music Has No Boundaries

While sizzling with the bubbling, trance-inducing electric guitar lines of famous Malian bands like Tinariwen, Songhoy Blues’ “Music in Exile,” co-produced by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, varies the traditional desert-blues slow grind with a potpourri of song forms and rhythms, including funk and reggae.

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