There's a Bandcamp Listening Party for Mdou Moctar's 'Funeral For Justice' today at 2pm eastern / 11am pacific. The band's Mikey Coulton will be answering questions in the chat.
'Funeral For Justice', the incendiary new album from MDOU MOCTAR is out today and available in shops, streaming everywhere, and is either on the way to your doorstep or shall be after you've read this post.
‘Funeral for Justice’ Tracklist
- Funeral For Justice
- Imouhar
- Takoba
- Sousoume
- Imagerhan
- Tchinta
- Djallo #1
- Oh France
- Modern Slaves
Limited edition red vinyl (available at the Matador / Mdou Moctar stores and at shops outside of the US)
T-shirt bundle (available to purchase with an LP, or purchase separately)
Picture disc available exclusive at the Matador / Mdou Moctar stores.
Mdou Moctar on Tour
Tickets on sale at mdoumoctar.com
Wednesday, June 5 Anchor Rock Club, Atlantic City NJ * Thursday, June 6 The Abbey Bar at ABC, Harrisburg PA * Friday, June 7 Cheers Brown's Island, Richmond VA Saturday, June 8 Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw NC ^ Sunday, June 9 The Orange Peel, Asheville NC ^ Tuesday, June 11 Pour House, Charleston SC ^ Wednesday, June 12 Saturn, Birmingham AL ^ Thursday, June 13 Terminal West, Atlanta GA ^ Friday, June 14 Bonnaroo, Manchester TN Saturday, June 15 The Hi-Fi, Indianapolis IN # Tuesday, June 18 Thalia Hall, Chicago IL + Wednesday, June 19 Magic Bag, Detroit MI + Thursday, June 20 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH + Friday, June 21 Asbury Hall, Buffalo NY + Saturday, June 22 Green River Music Festival, Greenfield MA + Sunday, June 23 Paradise Rock Club, Boston MA + Wednesday, June 26 Warsaw, Brooklyn NY + Thursday, June 27 9:30 Club, Washington DC + Friday, June 28 Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA + Wednesday, July 3 Electric Brixton, London UK Sunday, July 7 Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen NL Monday, August 19 Festaal Kreuzberg, Berlin DE Tuesday, August 20 UT Kreuzberg, Leipzig DE Wednesday, August 21 Ampere, Munich DE Thursday, August 22 Magnolia Summerstage, Milan IT Sunday, August 25 Petit Bain, Paris FR Monday, August 26 OLT Revierenhof, Antwerp BE Tuesday, August 27 Paradiso, Amsterdam NL Friday, August 30 End of the Road Festival, Dorset UK Saturday, August 31 Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester UK Sunday, September 1 Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham UK Monday, September 2 Saint Luke's, Glasgow UK Tuesday, September 3 Boiler Shop, Newcastle UK Wednesday, September 4 The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds UK
* w/ BODEGA ^ w/ Bat Fangs # w/ Lia Kohl + w/ J.R.C.G
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"Dramatically urgent... 'Funeral for Justice' is the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals."
Rolling Stone gives a four-star review to Mdou Moctar's forthcoming album, out Friday.
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Listening Post: Mdou Moctar
Mdou Moctar is, without question, one of the pre-eminent rock guitarists of our time, as much a master of heavy, hazy grooves as of double-tapped Van Halen-esque shreddery. His music is steeped in a very specific desert blues aesthetic, the swaying, side-to-side rhythms that evoke camel caravans, the keening call and response that suggests lonely attempts at communion in remote campsites, the hard-bashed but intricate percussion, the silky multi-colored tunics that the band sports onstage. And yet, it’s universal in the same amp fried lineage as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eddie Hazel and, oh right, Eddie van Halen.
Dusted has been enamored of Mdou Moctar for quite some time, beginning with Patrick Masterson’s highly entertaining review of the Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST in 2015—the music for a remake of Prince’s Purple Rain in the Tamashek language— on Sahel Sounds.Masterson observed, “The idea of a Tuareg Purple Rain would have been unthinkable in 1984, not least of all because —and I cannot stress enough how funny I find this — there is no Tamashek word for ‘purple.’ Yet, 31 years later, here we are — the magic of a smaller world has helped bring an academic outsider’s joke to life. The punchline, of course, is that it’s as good as advertised.”
We collectively fell for Ilana (The Creator) and its out-of-hand shredding in 2019.Isaac Olsen noted, “If you still have a punk-induced allergy to flashy guitar solos, be warned; there’s not a track on Ilana where Moctar doesn’t take every available opportunity to — no other word for it — shred. Fortunately, Moctar earns the right to play his ass off by recruiting a band whose hungry energy matches and spurs on his own and by, for the first time, writing a whole album of tunes worthy of his chops.” The record brought a normally fractious Dusted roster to unity and dominated the 2019 Mid-Year feature.
Two years later, Afrique Victime won praise for its less showy, more groovy vibe. Said Jennifer Kelly in her review, “While he’s been one of rock music’s best guitarists for a while, the larger platform takes him out of the niche desert blues category and into the broader multinational arena. He might be excused for capitalizing by leaning into the rock elements of his sound, but instead, he’s putting forward the droning, mystic, call-and-response twilight magic of northwest African guitar music.”
And so we come to Funeral for Justice, another scorcher. The new record is as sharp and impassioned as any Moctar and his band have done so far, and it is inflamed with political energy. It comes after a period of exile after civil war in Niger. It calls out the injustices of colonialism, economic inequality and exploitation in cuts including the title track, “Oh France” and “Modern Slaves.” It cooks on the strength of a band that has never sounded better or more locked in, and it has one or two guitar solos, too.
Intro by Jennifer Kelly
Mdou Moctar on Tour
Tickets on sale at mdoumoctar.com Wednesday, June 5 Anchor Rock Club, Atlantic City NJ * Thursday, June 6 The Abbey Bar at ABC, Harrisburg PA * Friday, June 7 Cheers Brown's Island, Richmond VA Saturday, June 8 Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw NC ^ Sunday, June 9 The Orange Peel, Asheville NC ^ Tuesday, June 11 Pour House, Charleston SC ^ Wednesday, June 12 Saturn, Birmingham AL ^ Thursday, June 13 Terminal West, Atlanta GA ^ Friday, June 14 Bonnaroo, Manchester TN Saturday, June 15 The Hi-Fi, Indianapolis IN # Tuesday, June 18 Thalia Hall, Chicago IL + Wednesday, June 19 Magic Bag, Detroit MI + Thursday, June 20 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH + Friday, June 21 Asbury Hall, Buffalo NY + Saturday, June 22 Green River Music Festival, Greenfield MA + Sunday, June 23 Paradise Rock Club, Boston MA + Wednesday, June 26 Warsaw, Brooklyn NY + Thursday, June 27 9:30 Club, Washington DC + Friday, June 28 Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA + Wednesday, July 3 Electric Brixton, London UK Sunday, July 7 Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen NL Monday, August 19 Festaal Kreuzberg, Berlin DE Tuesday, August 20 UT Kreuzberg, Leipzig DE Wednesday, August 21 Ampere, Munich DE Thursday, August 22 Magnolia Summerstage, Milan IT Sunday, August 25 Petit Bain, Paris FR Monday, August 26 OLT Revierenhof, Antwerp BE Tuesday, August 27 Paradiso, Amsterdam NL Friday, August 30 End of the Road Festival, Dorset UK Saturday, August 31 Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester UK Sunday, September 1 Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham UK Monday, September 2 Saint Luke's, Glasgow UKTuesday, September 3 Boiler Shop, Newcastle UK Wednesday, September 4 The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds UK
* w/ BODEGA
^ w/ Bat Fangs
# w/ Lia Kohl
+ w/ J.R.C.G
Mdou Moctar - "Oh France" from the amazing new album ‘Funeral For Justice”, out Friday. stream “Oh France” : https://lnk.to/mdouohfrance presave/preorder ‘Funeral For Justice : https://lnk.to/ffjustice
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Mdou Moctar's 'Funeral for Justice,' is out in just 10 DAYS. Hear the album on its release day for the next Bandcamp Friday, May 3rd at 2pm ET / 11am PT, as the band's Mikey Coltun joins the chat to answer your questions.
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