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With a new album in production and prepping to play their first European show in over two years at Trace Made In Africa – Kes spoke to PAM between rehearsals in Trinidad.
In August 1970, Franco’s younger brother, Bavon Marie-Marie, passed away under tragic circumstances. As an epitaph, the Grand Master paid tribute with one of his most beautiful songs, “Kinsiona” (Sorrow).
The drum gives rhythm to the many pan-African musics that are the soundtrack to dancefloors and discotheques, sacred spaces and ceremonies. Listen in on the djembe, tama, bendir and ngalabi alongside their musical cousins to explore the beat under Africa’s feet.
PAM meets Menzi at the 2021 Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht. A gqom pioneer and Durban native, Menzi is empowering the dance music cultural underground with his dark and energetic mixes.
Kenyan experimental producer EchoE calls upon his childhood memories by delivering a mix of his influences. A PAM Club placed under the sign of the East African rhumba! At the beginning of the year, we […]
Afrofuturist Ugandan griot, Faizal Mostrixx, continues his avant-garde, multi-sensory disciplines on latest EP, Transitions, to be released on Glitterbeat Records. Faizall Mostrixx has been behind some of East Africa’s hottest electronica and counter-cultural rhythms for […]
This week, Phelimuncasi stings like a bee, Obongjayar reflects deep, Bachir Attar leads a Jajouka trance, Kendrick Lamar makes his return and Groundation give a reggae staple.
Nigerian star Burna Boy unveils a new single “Last last” and teases the release of a new album Love Damini, from which this new track is taken. Burna Boy has been quite in demand lately, […]
Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue joins forces once again with Argentinian producer Prisma in a five-track EP entitled Pliegues via TraTraTrax. The Quarantine was a source of inspiration for many artists who took this time […]
The Ghanaian songwriter gives visuals to his single “Sarki” featuring the Dambe, a combat sport popular in the Hausa community dating back to the 10th century, matched with Kirani’s heavy bars. Kirani Ayat is a […]
Each week in our Pan African Rap playlist, discover the latest and greatest rap from across the African continent and its diaspora.
DJ Kainga decorates the PAM Club with his synthetic and watered-down music in a mix as atypical as it is artisanal, reflecting the popular sounds of rural Malawi. Originally from Zomba, the former capital […]
Key figure of the afro-house scene, Portuguese DANYKAS DJ joins the ranks of the PAM Club’s series with an exclusive set that oozes with love!
The Ivorian Chabela shares her love for electro-traditional fusions in a set calibrated for the dancefloors of sunny festivals. In Abidjan and across Africa, Isabelle aka Chabela is known for her role as director of […]
Pioneer of the acholitronix movement, the rare Leo PaLayeng honors us with his presence in PAM Club with a crazy mix that galvanizes Ugandan popular music. From northern Uganda to southern Sudan, Acholi music is […]
The London princess of amapiano opens a parenthesis between two residences to concoct an elegant PAM Club translating her love for South African house! Born in London to Jamaican parents, Nicky Summers was exposed to […]
Le DJ et curateur français installé à Londres nous propose une visite guidée dans sa collection de vinyles caribéens et panafricains. Un PAM Club cosmique de près de trois heures ! Depuis 2005, Cédric Lassonde aka […]
PAM looks at the men and women behind the boards that are fashioning the sounds of afrobeats during its global rise to popularity.
PAM is proud to present Off the Map, a collection of mini-docs that bring you into the lives of emerging artists from Kinshasa to Paris, Casablanca and Johannesburg.
Kinyatrap is the quintessential Kigali sound that combines elements of trap, grime, drill, and the occasional Afro-pop rhythm. While mainstream coverage of Rwandan music tends to focus on diasporic acts like Stromae, Lous and the […]
An introduction to the collective that is shining a spotlight on buried Eritrean masterpieces online and in-person for a celebration of culture and heritage.
We dive into the French born Badarou’s most well known 1984 classic Echoes for a closer look at the sounds of Wally’s world.
PAM pays tribute to Manu Dibango, who left us one year ago, on 24 March 2020. The musician, a generous pioneer, has built bridges between Africa and the rest of the world. A look back at the first chapters of his fantastic novel-like life.
90 years ago, the South African singer, who was to become “Mama Africa”, a Pan-African heroine, was born. The life of a woman who thought that the fight should never end.
Thirty-one years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison, where he had spent the last years of his detention, finally appearing before the eyes of the world. He was free, at last. […]
While Black History Month is all year round for us at PAM, we’re going to celebrate this February and publish a number of special articles. Here we have an annotated playlist made up of 5 songs from 5 historic activists.
While Black History Month is all year round for us at PAM, we’re going to celebrate this February and publish a number of special articles. Here we have an annotated playlist made up of 5 songs from 5 historic African leaders.
With a career spanning over fifty years, the Mahotella Queens brought mbaqanga music to a global audience, balancing an urban identity with traditional cultural practices.
10 years after her passing, PAM remembers the diva along with her loved ones, exploring the mark her bare feet left on the world.
In celebration of Salif Keita’s seminal album, Soro, via a conversation with it’s producer François Bréant.
Let’s take a few tours and detours all over the continent to discover some of its guitar masters. To hear them at their best you often have to wait until the 1st verse or chorus is over; wait for the song to bloom and for the guitarist to rise.
Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia and pan-African instigator, created an apocryphal personality and reign that has resonated into the reggae Rastafari and Africa’s modern political backdrop.
