Funeral for Justice
by Mdou Moctar
- Type: Album
- Released: 3 May 2024
- Label: Matador
- Country: Niger
- Length: 39:00
- Community rating: 3.67/5 from 13 ratings
Artists on this release: Ahmoudou Madassane, Michael 'Mikey' Coltun, Souleymane Ibrahim, Mahamadou 'Mdou Moctar' Souleymane
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Funeral for Justice' presents a faster, louder, and more intensely political evolution of Mdou Moctar's Saharan desert blues sound. [1, 10] The album is defined by feedback-scorched guitar solos, breakneck drumming, and a raw production style that captures the band's ferocious live energy. [4, 7, 10] Lyrically, the work serves as an unflinching anti-colonial statement, directly addressing the legacy of French interference in Niger, calling for the preservation of the Tamasheq language, and critiquing corrupt African leaders. [2, 5, 7, 12]
Genres
Descriptors: political, guitar-driven, desert, protest, shredding, guitar-led, rhythmic, virtuosic
Tracklist
- Funeral for Justice (03:08)
- Imouhar (05:07)
- Takoba (03:53)
- Sousoume Tamacheq (05:40)
- Imajighen (04:11)
- Tchinta (05:13)
- Djallo #1 (00:24)
- Oh France (05:40)
- Modern Slaves (05:44)
Credits
- Mahamadou 'Mdou Moctar' Souleymane - lead guitar, vocals, songwriter
- Michael 'Mikey' Coltun - bass guitar, guitar, percussion, backing vocals, production, engineering, creative director
- Souleymane Ibrahim - drums, djembe, backing vocals
- Ahmoudou Madassane - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
- Cheick Niang - guitar solo
- Intaganat Mohamed - calabash
- Souleyman Djallo - ngoni [tehardent]
- Rissa Ag Wanaghli - additional vocals
- Hamadal Moumine Issoufou - guitar solo
- Robert Beatty - artwork
- Can Misirlioglu - creative director
- Modern People - creative director
- Ofir Ganon - additional guitar sound engineering
- Nelson Antonio Espinal - assistant engineered, gatefold photo and sleeve portraits
- Chris Muth - lacquer cut
- Heba Kadry - mastered
- Seth Manchester - mixed