As we reach the midway point of 2019, here is a top 60 of the year’s best albums so far. Graphic Illustration by Julie Jargeais This first half of the year has been a very fruitful year for […]

The musician has released “Umkhumbi kaMa,” a single from his upcoming project, to be released via Mushroom Hour Half Hour. A ubiquitous sideman and bandleader, multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane forms part of the vanguard of his […]

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, a reverse acronym for the British-Nigerian rapper’s first name, is the fourth album from an artist slowly being recognized as a national treasure. […]

2021 is fast approaching and it presents the opportunity for PAM to look back on the best albums of the last year. A difficult year is drawing to a close, one in which the world […]

Shrouded in great depth, their new album UPRIZE! pays tribute to those who lost their lives fighting against apartheid.  UPRIZE!’s sensual trombones and delicate percussions are accompanied by sauve voices in a haunting rythme that […]

Buffering juju is Dumama and Kechou’s debut album, which will be released on March 20th on the South African label Mushroom Hour Half Hour. The Johanessburg-based label explains that the album is « a conduit to […]

In this week’s selection : a story of electronic maloya, a tribute to the city of Belém, a freestyle EP from a Nigerian prodigy, and much more… Georgia Anne Muldrow VWETO II Los Angeles-born and grown […]

Johannesburg-based Mushroom Hour Half Hour imprint drops a series of improvisations from a never-before-assembled group of jazz musicians. Mushroom Hour Half Hour is decided to establish the South African city as the third point in the new jazz triangle, […]