Mdou Moctar - Imouhagh (live)

Mdou Moctar and his band perform Imouhagh, another term for Tuareg.
Mdou Moctar (Mahamadou Souleymane) - guitar/vocals, Ahmoudou Madassane - guitar/vocals, Souleymane Ibrahim - drums/djembe, Michael Coltun - bass/vocals.

Mdou Moctar was born in a small village in the Azawagh desert of Niger. As a child he went to a concert of guitarist and vocalist Abdallah Oumbadougou, a local musician and knew then: That is what I want to become. He taught himself to play the a homemade guitars, cobbled together out of planks of wood, in secret because his parents were strictly agains him becoming a musician. Years later he found a “real” guitar, teaching himself in secret. In an area where guitar music was all but prohibited, he quickly rose to the status of local celebrity amongst the village youth. In 2010, he teamed up with the label and collective Sahel Sounds, and his 2019 album Ilana (The Creator) was recorded in Detroit.

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Broadcast December 1st 2019
This video was recorded in TivoliVredenburg for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO
Camera operators: Ramon de Boer, Marijn Zurburg, Wim Adam, Guus Albregts
Audio: Marc Broer, Ruben Kieftenbelt
Videodirector: Reinier Bruijne
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