correspondent: despite growing recognition, moctar's musical ocean has grown more agitated?ntensity of his playing -- and in the title of this new album surrounded by the incendiary descriptions. “funeral for justice.” when you say funeral for justice, what justice is being lost or buried? >> for me, when i say the funeral for justice, i mean, like, justice doesn't exist anymore. every country, like, try to be stronger than his neighbor. just for what reason? just to hurt him. to make him say i am stronger than you i can say whatever i need to say. no one can stop me. it is what happen in this world and that is not justice, that is not fair. correspondent: this album was written and recorded before the recent upheaval in moctar's native niger. on july 26th, the northern african country saw its democratically elected president mohamed bazoum a politician moctar publicly supported overthrown in a military coup. this happened as moctar was on tour. >> it was like, okay, we're going to take this day by day, hour by hour. and finally when we finished the last shows, like, yeah, y

and europe moctar now stands as a singular , player.o longer necessary. >> he most important for me that these people are happy, that it's the most important because we do the same when we have 30 person. we use the same energy with like 30,000 person. ♪ christopher: despite growing recognition, moctar's musical ocean has grown more agitated, reflected both in the intensity of his playing and in the title of this new album surrounded by the incendiary descriptions. "funeral for justice" when you say funeral for justice, what justice is being lost or buried? >> for me, when i say the funeral for justice, i mean, like, justice doesn't exist anymore. every country, like, try to be stronger than his neighbor. just for what reason? just to hurt him. to make him say, "i am stronger than you, i can say whatever i need to say. no one can stop me." it is what happen in this world and that is not justice, that is not fair. christopher: but this album was written and recorded before the recent upheaval in moctar's native niger. on july 26, the nor