Moctar recently has begun a U.S. tour and will soon head to Europe — and, given all the complications, he sounds ready to play. “That’s my job and I’m really happy to be doing it,” Moctar said, adding ...

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These days, Mdou Moctar travels the world performing his fusion of psychedelic guitar and the music of West Africa. But the first guitar he ever played was made from pieces of wood and the brakes of a ...

The performance venue at the Hare and Hounds is just a room above large-ish pub and so the first that most of the Birmingham crowd of hip predominantly 30-somethings saw of Moctar and his crew was ...

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