“His joyful contemporary fingerstyle playing blends the desert blues and Tuareg guitar styles with Western rock, psychedelia and jazz elements and if you haven’t heard it, you should. The consensus that is slowly forming is that he is not just one of the leading exponents of Sahel (Sub-Saharan) guitar music, but one of the finest and certainly most expressive, guitarists in the world.” MusicRadar features Mdou Moctar ahead of the release of “Afrique Victime,” out in just two days.
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In addition to vinyl, CD, picture disk and digital formats, the new Mdou Moctar album ‘Afrique Victime’ will be available as a special and limited cellphone edition. Hearkening back to the way Moctar’s music originally spread and proliferated across the Sahara via word-of-mouth Bluetooth mobile phone swaps, this collector’s edition of ‘Afrique Victime’ arrives pre-loaded onto a classic Nokia 6120 handset and specially mastered for it. Disclaimer: You can only make calls on this phone in countries that have 2G coverage (not US). The phone does not include a sim card and the headphone port is 2.5mm
preorder from the Matador Store : https://store.matadorrecords.com/afrique-victime
band photo : WH Moustapha
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Saturday, July 10 Schuba’s, Chicago IL *
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* - w/ Lifeguard
“He was quite a recent discovery. Eddie Van Halen was someone I found out about when I went for the screening of my film in Portland, Oregon. I’ve got friends there too, and when I played they saw the vibrato I create with my fingers they loved it, and there was someone who said they wanted to introduce me to an artist they thought I would really like. So they played me Eddie Van Halen’s music from when he was younger and I found his solos really incredible, he does the tapping in his way, it was really his own invention and I could tell he’s a real pro. I loved it so I started listening to him and even trying out a few solos – it was a bit tricky for me, but I managed them in my own way.” From Van Halen to Bob Marley & The Wailers to Toumani Diabaté, Mdou Moctar shares his influences for The Quietus’s “Baker’s Dozen” series.
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