Mdou Moctor- Ilana (The Creator) Format:LP Gonna See You Tonight

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The self-titled album followed their six-track Grammy Award-winning CDEP The Distant Future

the album was released by Heartworm Press and then re-released by Matador Records just as the band was beginning its foray into cult status

Mdou Moctor- Ilana (The Creator) Format:LP Gonna See You TonightLabel: Matador Reissued 3 13 2026, Originally released 2019 Blistering and hypnotic, 'Ilana (The Creator)' (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar heros first album recorded with a live rock band and perfectly captures the heavy, psychedelic sound part Tuareg desert blues, part ZZ Top that the quartet had honed through endless touring and which would come to explosive fruition on 'Afrique Victime' (2021)