Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime 12/16/16 never quite as simple as

never quite as simple as it seems

Harvey Mason

Arp synthesizer)

it sounds like there's more at stake for the band than there has been in many years

not to mention future Yellow Ostrich members Michael Tapper [Bishop Allen] and the great indie sideman and composer Jon Natchez [Beirut/The War on Drugs/David Byrne/St

Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime 12/16/16 never quite as simple asOn May 21, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the long awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. On 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