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Moctar, Mdou: Ilana (The Creator) - 2026 (CD) Sigur Rós rolling boogie that contradicted allBlistering and hypnotic, Ilana (The Creator) (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerian 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) and Funeral For Justice (2024). Ilana was the first step and