Yes Gowho: Mdou Moctar, Janel Leppinhen: 8:12 p. m. February everywhere: Carnegie Reading Hall, Oakland Tickets: $ 25 for students, $ 30 for adults, Carnegiemuseums. org
While Mdou Moctar was preparing to launch his excursion on a next acoustic album, bassist Mikey Coltun waited impatiently.
“We never did,” Coltun said last week. “We have played in combination several times acoustically and look with acoustically, however, we have never made an acoustic tour, so we are looking for new things and we are all very excited about this. “
The band, which bears the name of its singer/guitarist Mdou Moctar, is releasing “Tears of Injustice” on Feb. 28 via Matador Records, rearranging and re-recording the band’s 2024 “Funeral for Justice” album with acoustic and traditional instruments.
Moctar, born in Niger, joins through the guitarist of rhythm Ahmudou Madssane and drummer Soulleyman Ibrahim, along Coltun, founded in the United States, with his music by combining Western rock with new African sounds. His tour, which has visited the Carnegie reading hall in Oakland on Wednesday as a component of the Andy Warhol Museum, with the inauguration of Janel Leppin.
According to Coltun, every night and every night it is different, with about 95% of the improvised program.
“With Mdou, with the group, there is a type of trial, however, it is actually a type of thing, what is seen, and Mdou likes to keep him spontaneous,” said Coltun. “We never make a list or anything, and we never communicate about the music we are going to do, so it is only that everyone will have to be on guard.
“And there is a massive electronic book of songs songs, and only Mdou melodies, but classic Niger wedding songs, and everyone knows it in some way and you only listen to a melody and pass there. ” “
In a call last week from New York, Coltun the new album, its aversion to the term “world music” and more:
Has the album done without problems?
Yes, it was also a scenario in which we did not repeat in advance. We talked about doing this album, and I discovered a study that, in my opinion, we didn’t have to use headphones and we could all be in the same room. We just started getting stuck and someone said: “Oh, it’s great. It’s great. Let’s see this for this song. ” And so it was spontaneous and basically we took all the songs, which is somehow how a Mdou recording is made.
Has anyone had the concept of doing this or was it just something that has just happened in the conversation, while we review this?
We talk about making acoustic versions of those songs for some time and writing the album about excursion and sitting, Ahmudou, Mdou and me, speaking of words and things.
Mdou has an acoustic guitar, so it is quite herbal to have this sound, and it is a very another sound of that electricity. Therefore, it was a fairly simple adjustment to the acoustic mood, somehow with other sensations because we did not need to be the same as the electric disc, so it was a type of collaboration concept in the registry.
From what I read, this type of music has been historically low, so how were you located where you are musically?
For me, it was very similar musically and in terms of power for punk music that I grew up listening and playing. And among this, then an organization in which I was before with a Sierra Leone singer, this taste was called Bubu music, and it is like the old witchcraft music that reproduces very quickly. And so it was a bit like an education field for this type of thing, because they are long forms, repeat the same rhythms, and that is remodeling and everything, but never stops becoming more and faster.
I think that with all kinds of Western Africa music that I have studied, it is a consultation of locating a line or doubling a line that is there. And that’s how I approached him at the beginning, and Mdou really likes it. But yes, it’s like, Tuareg music has historically not has a bass, but there are teams like Mali Tinariwen (where) under the maximum vital role. Therefore, it is a consultation to locate this balance between two guitars and drums that are the low to be the maximum vital in a kind of slower Tuareg group.
Are you upright at the end of global music? Does that seem to be such an obsolete term and is not going?
I hate this term.
How would you describe music and music?
I think it is not another of any other rock group. I mean you can remove it from a box, the global music box, and throw it in some other box, but in the end that is just someone takes. But I think the term music of the global has a negative connotation for me and for many people. We begin to bet global and other musical events, and it is very governed through an older and more sitting white male crowd, and that never felt good. As soon as we moved to another global, it was quite evident that it was right. I think it is unfair that the teams group in this category if they come from another country outside the doors of North America and Europe.
Is there never fear of the message of the words that are lost in translation when the majority of the public does not perceive the language?
Yes, in fact it is that, however, I think we are looking for music to adjust as much as possible, so the intensity of the music that I believe is what other people feel and can feel that it has a message there. In all our recordings, there are words translations and, therefore, hope is that someone buy the album and read a little more about what is happening in Africa, what is happening in Niger and despite everything how it affects what Global and very very similar to what is happening on the contrary.
What are the most important problems of what you learned to play a safe number of other roles for this group: pilot, manager, translator, a little of everything?
Patience and the undeniable and undeniable creativity are a kind of great dishes to remove. Certainly, things take a position in West Africa that here and especially you say, like, ok, we are going to 8 am and is not a thing. It is not a good reputation there. It’s a bit like, Oh will happen.
And the same with the visas. We get our visa, (yet) it is never simple to get a visa for those types, even if it’s like, ok, your visas are approved. It is the additional task. Is there anyone at the embassy to give them a stamp? What happens when they give them a stamp, but is on the wrong page? It is on the vital page of all people, so it is a consultation to locate a temporary and artistic solution. I think it’s a great point not to forget that I received this group.
Yes Gowho: Mdou Moctar, Janel Leppinhen: 8:12 p. m. February everywhere: Carnegie Reading Hall, Oakland Tickets: $ 25 for students, $ 30 for adults, Carnegiemuseums. org
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