MdouMoctar

With the 2021 album Afrique Victime the execptional Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar and his band rose to the consciousness of the Western listeners. The band boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and rock music by melding guitar shredding, 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. New York Times, Pitchfork and The Guardian all named Afrique Victime as one of 2021’s strongest albums, and the band is steadily charming more audiences while touring the world.