Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics ...

Fatour Seidi Ghali is surely not the first person to become enamored of an older sibling’s guitar. When she was about ten, her older brother, Ahmoudou Madassane (who currently plays rhythm guitar for ...

One of the most fascinating breakout acts in recent memory is left-handed six-string virtuoso Mdou Moctar of Agadez, Niger. He has blazed quite the trail through the clubs, halls and theaters of North ...

As Mdou Moctar’s band filed into the Guitar Center on Manhattan’s bustling 14th Street one rainy afternoon in late January, bassist Mikey Coltun gave rhythm guitarist Ahmadou Madassane a fraternal ...

Mdou Moctar was born to shred. The spirit of rock ’n’ roll lies deep in his soul and pulses through his fingertips every time he grabs his ax. When Moctar was growing up in Niger, his parents ...

Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field ...

Kathryn Tickell shares a special session from Tuareg blues band Imarhan. Plus guitar songs from Zambia and travelling gypsy ...

Last month, on a warm Tuesday evening, Les Filles de Illighadad—a guitar-based Tuareg quartet from western Niger—played for a sold-out crowd at Pioneer Works, an art and performance space in Red Hook, ...

Mdou Moctar was halfway around the world, in the middle of a lengthy tour in 2019, when his partner gave birth. The Tuareg guitarist, who hails from the Saharan desert City of Agadez in central Niger ...

World Music Institute will present Bombino, with Kaethe Hostetter's Impressions of Ethiopia & dj.henri at Brooklyn Bowl,Thursday, September 21. Omara "Bombino" Moctar is one of the brightest stars of ...

The Tuareg people of the Sahara desert in North Africa are, among other attributes, inspired and keen astronomers. In the pitch-black womb of the desert night, the stars seem closer, brighter, alive.

Tuareg guitar warriors, Terakaft keeps alive the musical spirit honed by decades of oppression, rebellion, and exile on Aratan N Azawad (Children of the Azawad, World Village; June 14). Drawing on ...