Label: Matador – OLE1614LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Europe Released: May 20, 2021 Genre: Rock, Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: African
On May 21, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long-awaitednew albumby Mdou Moctar. WithAfrique 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,andfield recordingswith poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights,inequality,and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.
