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
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
Matador Records is thrilled to announce the addition of prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar to its roster. A once-in-a-generation artist backed by an unstoppable rhythm section, Mdou’s music has roots in both