Announced: Mdou Moctar – Tears of Injustice + ‘Imajighen (Injustice Version)’

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.

“We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and producer, Mikey Coltun. “We’re always playing around with arrangements at shows. We wanted to prove that we could do it on a record, too. And there’s a whole other side of the band that comes out when we play a stripped down set. It becomes something new.” 

On Funeral for Justice, anger at the plight of Niger and the Tuareg people is plainly expressed in the music’s volume and velocity. On Tears of Injustice, the songs retain that weight sans amplification.

Listen / download ‘Imajighen (Injustice Version)’ here.
Pre-order / pre-save Tears Of Injustice here.

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