TAKAAT (members of Mdou Moctar) with MSHR and Noise Circle

Name: TAKAAT (members of Mdou Moctar) with MSHR and Noise Circle
Start: 2026-04-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 10 Mayo St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04101

Schedule

Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

10 Mayo St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04101 | Portland, ME

Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 PM (doors 6:30 PM)
Tickets are available for $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and $30 for preferred seating (pay-what-you-can available)
All Ages
This show will be high volume - hearing protection recommended. Opening sets will include active moving and flashing lights.
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TAKAAT (members of Mdou Moctar) with MSHR and NOISE CIRCLE
Tinariwen are the grandfathers of what we know today as Taureg guitar music. Started in refugee camps in Algeria and Libya in 1979, Tinariwen created a new sound of Taureg music that pushed the tradition into a new direction. Ahmoudou Madassane, Souleymane Ibrahim, and Mikey Coltun all came to Tinariwen in different ways throughout our life and there is no doubt the importance the music has on all three of them. Just as much as Tinariwen pushed what Tuareg music is, that was the idea with TAKAAT - to push the tradition even further, create something new, create something fresh that blends our love for bands like Tinariwen but also their love of heavier more chaotic bands.
Is Noise Vol. 2 includes the TAKAAT versions of a couple of our favorite Tinariwen tunes. Unlike the original Tinariwen versions, these songs are unedited shredding jams recorded live to tape in Washington D.C. This is raw, this is noisy, this is TAKAAT.
For this performance, TAKAAT will be in a two-piece formation of Ahmoudou Madassane and Mikey Coltun, featuring blown out drum machines to create a sound that blends the Tinariwen sound with the drone metal stylings of bands such as Sunn O))).
Opening performances by MSHR and NOISE CIRCLE
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TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.
TAKAAT started during soundchecks while on the road with Mdou Moctar when the trio indulged their shared love for amps cranked to 11 and the sound of blown out speakers. Towards the end of 2023, the three started writing music together, inspired by their shared experiences with the sounds and energy of Hausa bar bands, gritty soukous, and 2000s post-punk. The music of TAKAAT is intense, dark, and energetic. Deeply inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, Ahmoudou, Mikey, and Souleymane capture that thrill of the new and the ecstasy of togetherness in these heavy rockers. TAKAAT follows in the spirit of the independent music culture that birthed hardcore basement shows, bedroom tape labels, and generator-powered pick-up wedding bands.
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
NOISE CIRCLE is an improvisational collaboration of local noise producers that surround the audience in a malformed circle.