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 24th, Matador will release a deluxe digital edition of Mdou Moctar’s Afrique Victime, which expands the album with nine previously unreleased songs, including the studio outtake, ‘Nakanegh Dich.’ “These are
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
Watch: Mdou Moctar – “Afrique Victime: The Documentary” DECEMBER 2020 The global pandemic trapped Mdou Moctar and his band in their home country of Niger. They could not leave to promote their
“The Tuareg guitarist and his bandmates deliver the fullest picture of his gifts yet.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music 8.4) “This is how free rock & roll should sound.” –
NEW ALBUM AFRIQUE VICTIME OUT TODAY, MAY 21ST ON MATADOR Ahead of the release of his hotly-tipped new album Afrique Victime this Friday, May 21st, Modu Moctar has released a further preview
Mdou Moctar covering Tinariwen’s ‘Chet Boghassa’ Live in Niamey, Niger, Winter 2021 Footage shot by: Mamadou Halidou & WH Moustapha / Dynamique image Audio Recorded by: Mikey Coltun Mixed and Mastered by
From this fantastic album, Mdou Moctar releases a translated lyric video…. English translation here: “Afrique Victime” is the title track from Mdou Moctar’s new album out on Matador Records, May 21,2021.
FROM NEW ALBUM AFRIQUE VICTIME OUT MAY 21ST ON MATADOR WATCH ACCOMPANYING VIDEO EDIT HERE “An almighty freakout” – Uncut on ‘Afrique Victime’ “The Hendrix of the Sahara is on peak form”
Following on from the thrilling announce earlier this month of a new album, Afrique Victime, and signing to Matador Records, the band recorded a lives session at a friend’s hime in Niamey,
The familiar elements of Tuareg electric guitar music are here: modal riffs and a kinetic six-beat, three-against-two pulse. But “Chismiten” — with lyrics chiding about the pointlessness of jealousy — supercharges those