With “Afrique Victime” the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky — boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women’s rights, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.
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Watch Mdou Moctar The Agadez Folders: Live at Sultan’s Palace
Last year, the members of Mdou Moctar convened in Niger to complete their then-unfinished album, Funeral For Justice, and to capture a series of live sets in the region surrounding Agadez, a historically important hub. Today, we are posting the first of these sessions: The Agadez Folders: Live at Sultan’s Palace. It features Mdou Moctar…
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Mdou Moctar Releases ‘Oh France’ In Advance of Friday’s Funeral
On Friday (May 3rd), Mdou Moctar will release its much-anticipated new album, Funeral for Justice. Today, you can hear the record’s penultimate track, “Oh France“, a fiery indictment of French colonialism that stands among the group’s heaviest songs to date. The band was recently profiled by the New York Times, who called Funeral for Justice “A cri de coeur of screaming guitars.” “Us guitar…
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Mdou Moctar – “Imouhar” Live Outside The School (Agadez, Niger)
Mdou Moctar has released a live rendition of his brand new song “Imouhar,” taken from the forthcoming album ‘Funeral for Justice‘ (out May 3), recorded in Agadez, Niger. Bassist / Producer Mikey Coulton said of the new video: At the beginning of 2023 we all met up in Agadez, Niger. It was the first time…
