Description
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.
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