Description
Tears of Injustice is the acoustic version of Funeral For Justice.
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief.
Mdou Moctars new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the bands 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 nations 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. Two days after the tour wrapped in New York City, the quartet began tracking Tears of Injustice at Brooklyns Bunker Studio with engineer Seth Manchester.
We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear, explains the bands US-based bassist and producer, Mikey Coltun. Were always playing around with arrangements at shows. We wanted to prove that we could do it on a record, too. And theres a whole other side of the band that comes out when we play a stripped down set. It becomes something new.
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