Afrique Victime

The new album by Mdou Moctar and his group from Niger combines the music of Tuaregs and blues-rock, field recordings, and poetic reflections on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and the exploitation of West Africa by colonial powers. This is no longer that dirty sound of the 70s. The recording is much cleaner and allows for a closer examination of the blend of blues-rock and traditional styles of Takamba and Assouf in the group's music. "Chismiten" showcases the guitar mastery and hypnotic rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. "Tala Tannam" is performed in an atypical acoustic style for the group and reveals a new side of the group. In the songs "Ya Habibti" and "Layla," Suleyman pays tribute to one of his heroes, Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou, a political revolutionary and pioneer of the Tuareg style. It was Oumbadougou who inspired Suleyman to compose his own music.

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