Hailing from the desert city of Agadez in Niger, Mdou Moctar is a genuine ... inspiration from other guitarists,” he tells Total Guitar, speaking in French through an interpreter.

Etran de L'Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...