Published On Premiered Nov 3, 2023
Recording of Mdou Moctar's live acoustic performance from the Courtyard at Club SAW.
Date: July 10, 2023
Location: Club SAW Courtyard, Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave (Ottawa, Ontario)
ABOUT THE BAND:
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 recordings, drums rhythms, poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers to rip a new hole in the sky with the Afrique Victime album.
→ https://www.mdoumoctar.com
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Established in 2013, Debaser is an arts organization and event presenter/producer based on unceded Algonquin territory (in so-called Ottawa).
→ https://www.debaser.ca
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Sound: Nick Schofield
Photo (Thumbnail): Ming Wu
Video: Kilam Media
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Funding provided by the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Government of Canada under the Community Services Recovery Fund.