Mdou Moctar
Mdou Moctar
Union Transfer
1026 Spring Garden St
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Jun 28, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
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Union Transfer is Philadelphia’s premier music venue. A former luggage transfer station for the adjacent Reading Railroad, the space has been renovated into a beautiful a...
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Mdou Moctar Biography
With "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 Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.
The music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
Read MoreThe music listeners are the beneficiaries of the staggeringly powerful do-it-yourself musical ethic of Mdou Moctar – the man and the band – who’ve worked so hard to bring the spirits of families and communities in Niger to the West. Afrique Victime sounds and feels like a Tuareg hand reaching down from the sky, and we are very lucky for this chance to get lifted.
Genre Tamashek Guitar Or Assouf
Rock
Desert Rock
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