Mdou Moctar "Ilana (The Creator)" Record Store Day 2024 The track is their most

The track is their most popular hit to date and was their first big hit

Royal was the perfect site for this album

and was certified eleven times platinum by the RIAA

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Mdou Moctar "Ilana (The Creator)" Record Store Day 2024 The track is their mostBlistering and hypnotic, 'Ilana (The Creator)' (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar hero's 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