Mdou Moctar - Tarhatazed (Live on KEXP) 

Haha.. true and to bring this amazing piece here to a 23 year old too in India

Amazing comment

you just gotta love how music connects people all around the world, and they come together... why can't humanity always be like that? I'd hate us less...

This 59 old from 2 hrs away from St.Louis loves it too. ;lol

38 year old swede likes it a lot!

hhhh this is berber music from touareg tribes they sing it before rock n roll was born even befor usa creation

@@SPORTl-wz7cb the singing style, yes. The guitar is rock.

@@kingkongz88 maybe but this is their style of music even in morocco there is some sahraoui tribes in their marriage and fiesta they play guitar with this style and they say that this style of music wich look like rock n roll its exist along time but their where play it with hande made guitar

@@SPORTl-wz7cb lol the instruments are not from Africa. it is rock but with a berber twang to it, pretty cool.

@@dillonpersel8561 Guitars aren't exactly a unique invention. Similar stringed instruments have existed all over the world for literally thousands of years. This would sound a lot different without amps and distortion. Now I want an acoustic set.

Damn: you said it first. so good

amen

We,the westerners, we are full of prejudice. Ever heard metal/punk from Botswana? Give'em a chance

@@Semprini537 I'm Arab :) What's the name of the band you're referring to?

Without a pick!

West Africa, really.

@@Hobyosultanatouareg people are in north africa

@@Hobyosultana Algeria lybia mali niger and burkina faso

@@HobyosultanaNorth Africa. Mainly Algeria.

​@@pluvioman6939mdou moctar is from Niger. Touaregs also live in the sahel region and not just the Sahara

I understand what you mean, I love music that just shatters my expectations and preconceptions in a good way, like wow, things can be done this way as well

agree 100%. The first week I heard Mdou I felt like I entered a new timeline. I've been listening to him and Bombino and Tinariwen this past year because I haven't felt this inspired to hear something so completely new and unpredictable to my jaded guitarist ears. I'm 50 and haven't been so pleased to hear something this new since the post punk new wave in the late 70's and early 80's.

That's because their music is based on heritage from arabic/islamic music modes and African sub saharan rhythms, which both are big on improvisation and giving space for the soloist to be creative beyo beyond the written notes ..so the harmony follow a more flexible and an unpredictable logic to it .. and that's why the closest thing in western music to this is Blues, Jazz or Soul , specifically James Brown , where string instruments would play rythmes and break some conventional rules, or play between the standard tones ... applying western and contemporary instruments to eastern music modes becomes like a recipe to marvelous music

Ll retour

@F 1 it does sound like a western rock music with traditional tuareg sounds. Which just goes to show that rock music, let alone the guitar, isn't dying like so many have claimed since at least the disco era.

Bomb ‘n’ Roll?

@@f.f5771 god save the sand he made rock and roll

If this was american it would've been mojave'n'mojo

Using this for a Spotify playlist name

@@f.f5771 you should know that those guys are not arabs ! those are Imazighen the north african native people , the civilization of Carthago , and the birth place of HANNIBAL the warrior , just take your head from your butt and read more about other cultures so that you will not make an idiot out of yourself in such a situation !

One video at a time:)

definately yes

one of my fav channel on yt

I Absolutely Agree. By them I found Night Beats.

They brought me Alvvays and I’m forever grateful and watch every video they post now. Amen.

May your mother rest in peace

What a gift, she must have great taste in music.

That says it all in a nutshell 🙂

Lost my mother to cancer as well. You’ll want to check out the band Tinariwen. Pretty obvious influence on these guys. Song called _Amassakoul 'N' Ténéré_ is my favorite cause it’s groovy.

May your mother rest in peace and bless your life

Oh yeah!!!

watched a documentary and these guys started by listening to hedrix and dire straits.

Haha love it

Yup, inevitable to think about it XD. Really cool though

@@rainwaterd you'd be surprised he started playing guitar before knowing who is jimi hendrix

Apparently his lyrics are about traditional values & have earned the respect of their local religious leaders, who would typically shun any western influence. And sadly I must say I think they are right to take up the music but leave the typical western rock n roll "values." "Mdou Moctar hails from a small village in central Niger in a remote region steeped in religious tradition. Growing up in an area where secular music was all but prohibited, he taught himself to play on a homemade guitar cobbled together out of wood. It was years before he found a “real” guitar and taught himself to play in secret. His immediately became a star amongst the village youth. In a surprising turn, his songs began to win over local religious leaders with their lyrics of respect, honor, and tradition." sahelsounds.com/artists/mdou-moctar/#:~:text=His%20immediately%20became%20a%20star,%2C%20drum%20machine%2C%20and%20synthesizer.

The sahara of algeria 💓💓💓

@@minamenni8739les Oeufs de poulet 😁

The language is berber, tarha means love they sing for their land and ancestors

Fact : 70% of algeriens can't understand what he is saying !

Legendary

im not a drummer and almost always focus on guitar and even bass over them in a song, but despite how good the bass and guitar are in this band, i still find myself noticing and appreciating the drummer like every song. hes insane. he stands out even next to them. of course they stand out too so thats not a dig but it'd be easy to have a drummer that didnt.

Absolutely! Love from Greece!

Saw Mdou Moctar last night and drummer was the highlight IMO which is insane because the guitars were so awesome.

Indeed, dude is solid as a rock.

Souleymane Ibrahim

Totally agree

Also they are naturally gifted . It didn’t just come from oppression

@@ZhayBaeBliss yea it came from hard work lol not natural talent

@@ZhayBaeBliss no one is "naturally gifted", musical skills have to be learnt or self-taught. and for whatever reason the tuareg region has produced a huge amount of amazing bands and artists over the last decade or so

To the other replies: talent is brought on by hard work and determination, which in some cases the drive to put in the work comes from passion, or having something to express that you yet can't. I think the sentiment of the original post stands true, though I don't know much of the political state of these people.

Thank you for your positive comment and your kind words.

🤣🤣🤣True

😂

Superb sub-Saharan southpaw!

Sorry not close to hendrix. Maybe dick dale.

@@frankpaterson2306 was a joke ...

Thank you

It's one extended solo

And probably the best singer too 😂😂

Amen!

Facts, you don’t hear this from America anymore. Great jam from tempo changes, to great guitar playing, great musicianship, to overall great understanding of rhythm. I like the middle eastern style as well. Can’t believe how good they are

They also don’t look like pansies. Most modern musicians play jazz chords while they look like they’re feeling it too much, and it distracts from the already sub par music.

sound like grateful dead, especially when they star singing!

Yes maybe rock comes back, into the main spotlight, I like hip hop too but hip hops almost dead itself

@@seanbrennan5192 You most definitely can but it's not mainstream in the U.S. anymore.

The drummer is working fuckun overtime and it pays off

Yep it's difficult to do ghost notes well 😭

Yep, the drummer had me intrigued from the intro onwards

Totally agree. The drummer is GREAT.

Who's rated them? Let's find a person who has rated them so low

That's the power of Africa, bruh! We gave everything and took nothing.

give a listen to RM Tocak, also shreds while always fingerpicking

It's not common. Yngwie Malmstein is the GOAT of the style. This is heavily influenced by grunge. Beautiful music. Mind blowing.

Check out Joe Bonamassa and Eric Gales. You want finger shredding, those 2 are just frightening.

It's not that rare. Check paco de Lucia mark knopfler or Lindsay Buckingham

where bro?

Agar Coins Charlotte, North Carolina

Um I'm pretty sure tuareqs are pretty much open air prisoners sort of like Palestinians. Don't think they would turn up in NC.

@@nicholasshackleferd2546 Um I'm pretty sure tuareqs don't give a fuck and if you're a performer, agents will make shit happen.

Nicholas Shackleferd Mdou Moctar has been on tour in the US most of the last 12 months. I’ve seen him twice in Milwaukee in the last year and a half and he is coming back in April (to Madison). Do a web search for “Mdou Moctar Milwaukee Taper” to get my two artist-approved recordings.

Exactly how I feel. In a world of rock that panders to the sound of the 70s and 80s, it's nice to have something so incredibly unique feeling yet that also doesn't feel too far removed from pure rock and roll.

@@mycubiclepenguin868 i couldn't said it better

He built his own guitar to teach himself on. Watch the D'addario interview

great insight

teaching yourself gives you a sound of your own being taught will give you difficulties as you will sound like your teacher

The most underrated comment hands down!!

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Exactly what I wanted to comment ..you beat me to it..."covered" is superlative !

LOL I took a while to figure it out :) that was funny!

Nice pun

Meeeee I'm so happy now

Its beautiful

Yep ahah love it

Me.. but it may not be random.. i binged on some Tinariwen few days back..

Me but not so random as well... always watching king gizz, boogarins and snail mail performances

Robby Krieger of the doors play the guitar in the same style

@@henry3098 but doors doesnt have a sound like that and this type of jams

You mustn't have checked out Bombino...

look for a band called "Tinariwen", this style is common in Berber regions of Africa, (southern Morocco, southern Algeria, Mauritania, Mali...) check out Tichumaren aka Desert Blues, Tuareg music and also Gnawa music since they use an instrument called (Gimbri) that influences this style.

His fingering is crazy

lol. You do words good. *You put words in order very well. You are well about words.

Coincidence lol 🤣🤣

I think it's less them respecting traditional attire and more just what they wear.

This is about the music tho...

Lol

Was gonna make the same comment

Shareef don' like him

Saurabh Saralaya : lmao!!!! 😂

lmao

folks who don't like africans and/or arabs

Its just some pentatonic noodling. Any decent guitarist can do it. Nothing insane here

Probably just a bunch of normies!

@@ruok3351 I'd say he's putting it to very good use here

Fucking haters!

Tha means you haven't checked out Spanish flamenco music yet. Such fast tremolo without pics is common in flamenco. Check out legends like Paco de Lucia and Paco Pena.

@@allonifrah3465 not with just an index finger though they use their wrists

@@allonifrah3465 I listen to lots of Flamenco and love artist like Matteo Manusco and Pat but I must agree that I've never seen that fast of a technique with just a single digits.

I love how everyone has a comment to check out someone else. This Shit is very unique , appreciate what it is and don’t relate it to anything else.

Artist Tom dude yes!

❤

But he is not arab he is Tuareg

@@seyfoag2346 Yes. But his name is Moctar, MOKHTAR, CHOSEN IN ARABIC.

bruh shut up trying to be all deep and stuff

@@azoozdoss7092 he is not lying Moctar meaning the chosen in Arabic. i'm arabian tho

We might have an Arabic names but we are not Arabs never been and will never will. We are Amazigh free and noble

From your point of view yes but we're actually rich

Yes Abdul. Because you have all those Bedouin guitar players !

@@bubamaranovichok4901 he's Tuareg, or Berber. Bedouins are from further East

@@MrDoesntcare To be fair, Bedouins go as far as Mauritania. But yeah, Tuaregs are Berber and Bedouins Arab.

Rich / poor who cares. Money means nothing

2nd to that bro.. Me myself aged 42 now.. Whenever i want to listen to music just want to get some relax time and release tension surely i decided to listen to "classic" such as grunge, punk rock, or any other songs from various genre from "my time" which is the 90's and early 2000..because in my mind, todays music suck.. But slowly i discovered some of the band from this generation got ummmphh in their music.. And this band mdou moctar is one of them..

Please is he a Muslim or not?

@@arifullahabba8682 he is

One 💕

@@arifullahabba8682 I'm a Muslim.

@@arifullahabba8682 All Touaregs are Muslims.

LOL

Hilarious!

We have camels to pick then up.

When they arent digging for the Ark of the Covenant they make some pretty good jams.

🤣🤣🤣

And Bombino?

Mdo moctar the best💿👑👌💪😎

​@@mikebarton🤭😂😂😂😂😂👌

@@RachidZwin-co1uc ??

Yes! In the end the speed has at least doubled.

ithink youre confusing this story its tinariwens

​@@krullerzel nope it's him, he tells the story on his Guitar Hero interview

@@ezzeddineback3970 Ok thank you, i got confused because the lead guitarist of tinariwen has a very similar story

@@krullerzel ohhh that's cool, do you know where you heard that one? I'd love to read/watch the interview!

the bicycle is too new!!! with animal skin

@Norm Macdonald Show thank..😁in these times;we need these tunes to chilled us up..🙏

rory galegher play like this and more

Agreed its amazing 💖

Pick guard guard.

to me it looks like he got the guitar brand new when arrived the states

Why wouldn't they? What a strange compliment. You were afraid they might bow to record company pressure and become a boy band instead? This is me rolling my eyes and making the wanking motion.

Why wouldn’t they? Western way of thinking, not everything is rock and roll, McDonald’s and army.

@@alanramirez8506 If you ain't got Western way of thinking then you ain't got shit. Sad but true and everything IS rock and roll. The guy can play but he can't sing.

We call it pride not shame at all

@@jereuter01 Ha, if singing is your deal-breaker then 50% of rock acts must be scratched off your list

While I agree with this I just hate how corny and cheesy it sounds.

@@juka421 why is it corny

juka421 why corny again?

Solid Statement

I agree

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*desert. As tasty as these licks are, I dont think they're necessarily dessert.

Right

How was it?

@@GLD516we saw them last night in Indy….they were Amazing! Blew the crowd away with the shreds…..so sweet and humble and having fun!

racists when ethiopia:

Hell yeah!!!!

EXACTLY

Don’t think it’s from any of those places LOL

@@but1z This artist comes from Nigeria, which is located in west africa. He plays in America at the KEXP Studio and his performance is broadcasted in Africa and around the globe. So OP is on Point! Crazy how that goes

@@DomeLP09 . . Mdou it’s Tuareg from Niger 🇳🇪, ( ex French colony ) Nigeria 🇳🇬 it’s different country and ex Brits colony , located around the Niger River . Be safe & Blessings from the Sonoran Desert 🌵 Mexico 🇲🇽

I think the word you’re looking for is amazing

Michael Gibson oh you have hit a jackpot.. search Tinariwen and other bands if you haven’t heard of this genre. ✌️

Long Live Australia, long live Oromia, from Amerika ♥️

His index finger is on another level 😂

Mdou moctar is a from Niger 🇳🇪 not Mali

Thnx from ❤️TENAST❤️ The original name of Tunisia in Tamazight language

@@kingzk7033 Niger, Mali..... We are All Amazigh Greetings from ❤️TENAST❤️

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Dude plays so well aliens enjoy his music ^

@@andrewholland1017 look up Amazigh

I love your languages writing system and letters.

Hahahaha

try playing it with head scarf and sandals on.

Apply sand on it

Aaayy! New Mexico!

There’s been something wrong with every guitar I’ve ever picked up because none have sounded like this.

Thank you for your kind words form North Africa, Morocco. Greece is part of our region, the Mediterranean pond and we share a lot in common more than the USA and western neocolonialist media want to share for their own evil global hegemony agenda that benefits from war war clash of nations

I wish he had taken another couple minutes getting tuned. He's so close.

@@bmwrules1464 He sounds tuned to me

I am sure he does sound tuned to a lot of people. Thankfully, he is playing lead most of the time.

Well. Took DID just drop a new album just a few months ago.

Relatable

True true

indeed. their inspired by you are mantion. cheers

theirs some greatful dead in there too

Right? I miss this kind of talent. Don't get me wrong there is some of the worlds best still going and I love that too but, rap and hip hop are so over done and I like some of these new sounds.

And Slipknot

Surprised you didn't mention Andy Summers from The Police, he's clearly an influence here too!

He makes it make sense.ordered chaos