Hailing from rural Niger, prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar has garnered cult status with his contemporary take on Saharan music, melding Van Halen level guitar shredding with field recordings, drums rhythms and poetic meditations on love, religion and inequality. Mdou Moctar’s 2021 album Afrique Victime is a stunning showcase of “wild, virtuosic Tuareg blues” and the band’s legendary live shows are energetic, passionate and powerfully punk.

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