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August 12, 2022 09:45 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/12/check-out-mdou-moctar-an-outstanding-self-taught-guitarist-who-plays-music-that-transcends-borders-and-labels.html
Check out Mdou Moctar, an outstanding self-taught guitarist who plays music that transcends borders and labels
Here's an artist you should know if you don't already: Mdou Moctar. He is an outstanding self-taught guitarist who plays music that transcends borders and labels. His website describes his eclectic musical style:
— Read the restTuareg guitarist and songwriterMdou Moctarboldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field recordings, drums rhythms, poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality and Western Africa's exploitation at the hands of colonial powers to rip a new hole in the sky with the Afrique Victime album.
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/12/check-out-mdou-moctar-an-outstanding-self-taught-guitarist-who-plays-music-that-transcends-borders-and-labels.html
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