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Optimisme

loudandquiet

7.0

“If Optimisme is about anything, then it’s about freedom. It’s been eight years since the members of Songhoy Blues were forced to flee their homes in northern Mali, forced out by a murderous Jihadist regime that banned music. Since then, the band have made it their mission to spread a philosophy of freedom, making protest music that you can dance to – a joyous, booty-shaking fuck you to oppressors ”