Watch: Mdou Moctar plays songs from Afrique Victime in new NPR Tiny Desk set

Mdou Moctar has brought three tracks from his latest record Afrique Victime to the laid-back setting of NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts.

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The series, still being filmed remotely under the Tiny Desk (Home) Concert name, welcomed Moctar and his band (Ahmoudou Madassane on rhythm guitar, Souleymane Ibrahim on a calabash, and Mikey Coulton on bass) sat crossed-legged playing the tracks “Ya Habibiti”, “Tala Tannam” and “Afrique Victime”.

Watch the performance below.

In Uncut‘s 9/10 review of Afrique Victime, we said: “An exhilarating band set that mixes electric and acoustic instrumentation, it’s at once fiercely modern and as ancient as the Niger river”.