Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime Artist_John Gustafson far from it in fact

far from it in fact

seeing ghosts of me

The titles on these four sides are taken from the first four records she made

Slick funk grooves powered along with a dose of slap bass

The material spans a number of years

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime Artist_John Gustafson far from it in factWith "Afrique 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, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and Western Africas exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. If "Ilana" was a late 60s early 70s ZZ Top and Black Sabbath record "Afrique Victime" is