Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

Released 21st May 2021. On 21st May, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long-await...

Released 21st May 2021. On 21st May, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long-awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. 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. The...