Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime Artist_John Gustafson

Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime Artist_John GustafsonWith "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 powers. If "Ilana" was a late 60s early 70s ZZ Top and Black Sabbath record "Afrique Victime" is

pounding bass

Slick funk grooves powered along with a dose of slap bass

The titles on these four sides are taken from the first four records she made

The material spans a number of years

and distributed by IFC Films

seeing ghosts of me

The Cradle starts with First Step

far from it in fact

The original artwork has been restored and tweaked at Be With HQ for the gatefold sleeve and the triple-fold digipak

Chet is an album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker first released in 1959

Bon Iver is Justin Vernon returning to former haunts with a new spirit

Her career in the industry dates back decades