MDOU MOCTAR
CONDIVIDE IL NUOVO SINGOLO 
'IMOUHAR' + VIDEO

IL NUOVO ALBUM
'FUNERAL FOR JUSTICE' 
IN USCITA IL 3 MAGGIO SU MATADOR

IN CONCERTO
IL 22 AGOSTO 2024 - CIRCOLO MAGNOLIA, MILANO
Info: Barley Arts

Praise for first single ‘Funeral For Justice’: 
“The band couldn’t sound more urgent” - New York Times 
“The Niger guitarist issues a rallying cry (...) that seems to dismantle the past and
tessellate a new future” The Guardian 
“The quartet at their fiercest and most impassioned” - Resident Advisor
'A hypnotic kaleidoscope of heavy, jagged blues and worldly psychedelia” - Loudersound

Mdou Moctar have released new single and video ‘Imouhar’, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, Funeral For Justice, out May 3rd on Matador. A hypnotic rock song building to a feverish crescendo, ‘Imouhar’ calls on the Tuareg people to which the band belong to preserve their Tamasheq language - it's at risk of dying out, and Moctar is one of the few in his community who knows how to write it. "People here are just using French," says Mdou. "They're starting to forget their own language. We feel like in a hundred years no one will speak good Tamasheq, and that's so scary for us."

Watch the video, directed by Laura Greenhall 

‘Imouhar’ follows the first single and title track ‘Funeral For Justice’ which came out in February. Watch the video.

The quartet embark on European and US tour dates this summer. UK dates include Glastonbury, End Of The Road, Manchester Psych Fest, Moseley Folk Festival, as well as headline shows in London, Glasgow, Newcastle and Leeds. A full live schedule is below.

Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, Funeral For Justice captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down.

Damon Locks (Black Monument Ensemble) on Funeral For Justice:

There is a beauty in listening to music made in the spirit of energetic transformation. When the sounds transform the air and the listener. This record transports the listener into the heart of the music of Mdou Moctar. The blending of intention and motivation creates a burst of sound that embraces and shakes and invites one to dance! It invites one to breathe. It invites one to be in solidarity with the music. It invites one to be in touch with the human condition.

The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of Niger and of the Tuareg people. "This album is really different for me," explains Moctar, the band’s singer, namesake, and indisputably iconic guitarist.

TRACKLIST 
1. Funeral For Justice
2. Imouhar
3. Takoba
4. Sousoume
5. Imagerhan
6. Tchinta
7. Djallo #1
8. Oh France
9. Modern Slaves

  
Giulia Distaso