Mdou Moctar at the Cooperage in Milwaukee on April 6, 2019

Please see my previous recording of Mdou Moctar at Acme Records here. In that post, I included his biographical information. He came around again this year to play a Milwaukee Psych Fest warm-up showcase at the Cooperage with three supporting acts. 

This was a lively, exciting show as Moctar toured in support of his new album.

This was recorded from atop a tripod about 10 feet in the air (to try to get above people talking -- mostly successful) using a Superlux S502 stereo ORTF microphone and fed into a Sound Devices MixPre 6. Audacity was utilized for gentle compression and EQ adjustments.

Listen, using headphones or external computer speakers:

Thanks very much to Chris Kirkley, the owner of Sahel Sounds, for helping me acquire the permission to tape, and to Max for doing great room sound.

Please support these superb musicians by seeing their live shows, buying multiple copies of their great merchandise (your friends are starving for great music -- why aren't you buying them music?), and talking to them respectfully after shows. Unless they look tired or something.

https://sahelsounds.com/artists/mdou-moctar/

https://mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com

downloads (click on the description to download):

16bit, 44.1kHz WAV file (635 MB)

suitable for burning to CD

16bit, 44.1kHz ALAC file (368 MB)

lossless copy of the wav file - can also be burned to CD or played on your iPhone

320kbps mp3 file (144 MB)

highest quality version of this lossy-but-popular audio file format