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「砂漠のジミヘン」の異名もある西サハラ・トゥアレグ族の左利きギタリスト MDOU MOCTAR の最新作は、デトロイトのキャス・コリドーのスタジオにて行われたセッション作品。

This release comes just after the announcement of Mdou's new album Ilana (The Creator), his first true studio album with a live band, to be released March 29 on Sahel Sounds. Mdou is currently touring the United States -- Ilana's first single "Kamane Tarhanin" and the full list of upcoming tour dates can be found HERE.

Mdou is a member of the Tuareg music community gestating in the remote desert city of Agadez, Niger, "where guitars are king." His music first came to the attention of Western music-lovers through the essential field recording work being done by the good folks at Sahel Sounds, first on their 2010 compilation Music From Saharan Cellphones.

While much of Tuareg music has become more distorted, faster and bombastic as of late, Mdou's soundscapes are more traditionally sparse, polyrhythmic and deeply psychedelic, with lyrics sung in the style of Tuareg nomadic poets.

His show on the Blue Stage at Third Man Records Cass Corridor was proof of how special all of this feels, especially in front of a Western audience, most of whom were seeing Mdou live for the first time. When Mdou took the stage with guitarist Ahmoudou Madassane and drummer Mahmoud Ahmed Jabra - only their faces exposed in their tunics and turbans - and began to play, there was a meditative intrigue that loomed heavy and thick in the room. Though hard to see clearly Mdou's precise and rapid-fire fingerwork on his Fender, the audience was quickly and thoroughly transfixed by his left-handed virtuosity. By the end of the psychedelic-guitar-rock-groove-explosion that was their set, it was clear that this was the show of the year.

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