Mdou Moctar - Afrique VictimeMatador Records release Afrique Victime, the long awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. 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, womens rights, inequality and Western Africas exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. The music

the only thing I don’t want is to be bored

After being labeled masters of the disengaged and forlorn

Built up using layers of treated and slowed field recordings with Derek Bailey and Evan Parker improvising

Label: Loud / Legacy

Five of the six songs are instrumental ('Willie the Pimp' features a short vocal by Captain Beefheart)

far-out LPs ever

The New York Times wrote that Isaacs was the most exquisite vocalist in reggae

and placed them at the forefront of experimental music

who received a production credit on the label)

it’s too late to change what’s going to happen

motorik pulse and synth rambles

He wrote a novel