{"id":12268,"date":"2017-07-11T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2017-07-11T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:45:09","slug":"mdou-moctor-set-to-release-new-album-sousoume-tamachek-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=12268","title":{"rendered":"Mdou Moctar set to release new album <em>Sousoume Tamachek<\/em> next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12269\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mdou-Moctar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12269\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12269\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mdou-Moctar.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Christopher Kirkley\" width=\"750\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mdou-Moctar.jpg 750w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mdou-Moctar-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Christopher Kirkley<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Self-taught guitarist and singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mdoumoctarofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mdou Moctar<\/a>, based in Agadez, Niger, is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians, forging a new path for Tuareg music. This August will see him release a new full-length album called <em>Sousoume Tamachek<\/em>. Mdou, an extraordinary musician, played every single instrument in the album, as well as backup vocals, rhythm guitar, and percussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To get us excited ahead of the album&#8217;s release through <a href=\"http:\/\/sahelsounds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sahel Sounds<\/a>, watch the marvellous teaser video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/223309912?color=c21709&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-taught guitarist and singer-songwriter Mdou Moctar, based in Agadez, Niger, is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians, forging a new path for Tuareg music. This August will see him release a new full-length album called Sousoume Tamachek. Mdou, an extraordinary musician, played every single instrument in the album, as well as backup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-mdou-moctar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12272,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/12272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}