“The Tuareg musician’s first full-band studio album is an incandescent set of guitar music with a spontaneous, celebratory air—and a latent urgency reflecting the region’s very real difficulties.”
“Many musicians face the age-old problem of how to get their music “out there” but none have achieved it quite like Mdou Moctar. Back in 2013 he’d recorded an eight-song album but not officially released it, yet his music still managed to make its way throughout West Africa via a network of mobiles and memory cards as it took the Sahel region of Africa by storm. Jump forward a few more years, and ”
