On May 21- Matador Records will release Afrique Victime the long-awaited new album by Mdou Moctar. On Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky ­– boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics full-blast noise and field recordings with poetic meditations on love religion women's rights inequality and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers.