{"id":116271,"date":"2022-11-30T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=116271"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:54:18","slug":"black-midi-mdou-moctar-live-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/black-midi-mdou-moctar-live-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Mdou Moctar and black midi\u2019s worlds collide in impromptu drumming session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Nigerien and British bands\u2019 respective drummers Souleymane Ibrahim and Morgan Simpson met up for a jam in Chicago. Rough Trade Records recorded this happy encounter.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In September 2022, Chicago\u2019s Electrical Audio studios became the stopover between Niger and the UK, as Mdou Moctar<\/a> and black midi\u2019s respective drummers met up for an impromptu jamming session. Bringing his modern Tuareg rock from the desert city of Agadez was Souleymane Ibrahim. Joining the iconic Nigerien guitarist Mdou Moctar as his third band in 2019, Ibrahim became the youngest member. His fierce drumming took the group\u2019s sound to new heights on their 2021 album Afrique Victime<\/a><\/em>. Flaunting an experimental, deeply inspired, London progressive rock was black midi\u2019s Morgan Simpson. Central elements of the band\u2019s distinct sound, Morgan\u2019s influences and risky approach to drumming are an essential part of the trio\u2019s 2022 critically acclaimed album Hellfire<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niger EP Vol.2<\/em> by Mdou Moctar & Hellfire<\/em> by black midi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rough Trade Records taped this first successful connection, as the two instrumentalists found affinities in their sounds, their unflagging energy, and their love for fast-paced rhythms after admiring each other\u2019s music for years. They harmonized to Mdou Moctar\u2019s \u201cChismiten\u201d and black midi\u2019s \u201cSugar\/Tzu\u201d, and even sparked the idea of a collaborative show.\u00a0 In the meantime, catch the full experience above, and enjoy Mdou Moctar\u2019s newest release Niger EP Vol.2<\/a><\/em> and black midi\u2019s Live Fire<\/a><\/em>, a live recording of their latest opus available on vinyl via Rough Trade Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerien and British bands\u2019 respective drummers Souleymane Ibrahim and Morgan Simpson met up for a jam in Chicago. Rough Trade Records recorded this happy encounter. In September 2022, Chicago\u2019s Electrical Audio studios became the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":116283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6262,32166,34147],"location":[8170,8230],"yst_prominent_words":[24074,10662,8414,24807,24806,8435],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116271"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=116271"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=116271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}