It was only a few short months ago that Tuareg guitar hero Mdou Moctar released his career-defining, politically charged, and fiercest album yet - Funeral For Justice. Its surprise follow-up Tears Of Injustice is a sublime but painful companion piece, an all-acoustic version of its predecessor, recorded with traditional instrumentation. As a military coup unfolded in their home of Niger while the band was on tour in the States, this album was their heartfelt response. - Flying Out
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief.
Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original.
In July of 2023, Mdou Moctar was on tour in the United States when the president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, was deposed by a military junta who made him prisoner at the presidential residence. They ordered the nation’s borders closed, leaving band members Mdou Moctar, Ahmoudou Madassane, and Souleymane Ibrahim unable to return home to their families. Plans to record a companion to Funeral for Justice – then still many months from release – had been in the works already, but the idea now took on new urgency and gravity. Two days after the tour wrapped in New York City, the quartet began tracking Tears of Injustice at Brooklyn’s Bunker Studio with engineer Seth Manchester.
Tracklist
- Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)
- Imouhar (Injustice Version)
- Takoba (Injustice Version)
- Sousoume Tamacheq (Injustice Version)
- Imajighen (Injustice Version)
- Tchinta (Injustice Version)
- Oh France (Injustice Version)
- Modern Slaves (Injustice Version)
Tears of Injustice (CD) has a scheduled release date of .
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