MDOU MOCTAR <PLAYING WOMAD NZ> 17-19 March, New Plymouth NIGER EP VOL.1 12″ + NIGER EP VOL.2 12″ “In 2021, we started the Mdou Moctar mixtape series. These releases compiled field recordings, cell phone voice memos, interview clips, conversations captured in the
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Last winter, bassist Mikey Coltun travelled to Niamey, Niger to join his bandmates – Mdou Moctar, Ahmoudou Madassane, and Souleymane Ibrahim – and to prepare for the release of the group’s Matador
From this fantastic album, Mdou Moctar releases a translated lyric video…. English
On February 24th, Matador will release a deluxe digital edition of Mdou
On February 28, Matador will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Today, listen to ‘Takoba (Injustice Version).’ In its original arrangement, the song gradually unspooled into an
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and
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
You might not have been lucky enough to make it along to Glastonbury 2024, but here’s a few of our favourite appearances from Matador artists, Bar Italia, Kim Gordon and Mdou Moctar. Enjoy!
On Friday, 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
Mdou Moctar have released new single and video ‘Imouhar’, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, Funeral For Justice, out May 3rd on Matador. A hypnotic rock song building to a feverish crescendo,
Out May 4, ‘Funeral For Justice’ is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout ‘Afrique Victime,’
MDOU MOCTAR <PLAYING WOMAD NZ> 17-19 March, New Plymouth NIGER EP VOL.1 12″ + NIGER EP VOL.2 12″ “In 2021, we started the Mdou
Mdou Moctar has announced details of part two of the Niger EP series–featuring live and alternate versions of songs spanning the band’s discography recorded in their native Niger–which will be released digitally
Featuring live and alternative versions of songs recorded between 2017-2020 in Niger, Mdou Moctar announces Niger EP Vol. 1, out today. Niger EP Vol. 1 features recordings captured in Moctar’s native country,