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Tuareg Guitar Virtuoso Mdou Moctar Unplugs for ‘Tears of Injustice’
Mdou Moctar has re-recorded his 2024 LP 'Funeral for Justice' with acoustic instruments. The new version is called 'Tears of Injustice.'
Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics across the globe stunned. “It’s hard to miss the sound of righteous fury in its opening guitar chords,” wrote Pitchfork ’s Arielle Gordon, “which ricochet like the first shots in battle.” Rolling Stone ’s Jon Dolan hailed it as “the band’s most forceful album yet, tailor-made to melt minds at massive festivals.” In July 2023 — just days after Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, was forcibly removed from power following a military coup, and with months left to go before the release of Funeral for Justice — Moctar and his band headed into a studio in Brooklyn, New York, to re-record the album utilizing acoustic instruments.
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