Shabaka Hutchings talks Dogon cosmology, African flutes and the field recordings of Hugh Tracey ahead of the release of the new Sons of Kemet album, Black To The Future

In conversation with Xhosa Cole on the Pan-African nature of jazz, the importance of looking back to move forward, and the capacity for activism and rejoice through music.

Omar Sosa releases his wonderfully aged album An East African Journey, exploring the timbres and strings from Madagascar to Ethiopia, Burundi to Mauritius, in a delicately compiled collection of African musicality.

To celebrate the release of Indaba Is the 1st record of 2021 from Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label – PAM caught up with Gilles and Indaba’s Thandi Ntuli (a few weeks apart, and on different continents) to talk curation, Pan-African sounds, and how a record label can be an ally.

An introduction into Spector Books’ recently published Ten Cities, exploring the clubs and party goers of Africa’s most prominent dancefloors, including a few words from the journalist and contributors.

Now, exclusively via PAM’s YouTube channel, watch Urban Village’s eponymous documentary, driving us through streets and the history of Soweto. Dig the tar, find the roots.

This year in Port Of Spain, J’ouvert morning won’t dawn. On September 28th 2020, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley confirmed that due to the continuing global pandemic the carnival of carnivals is cancelled, a privation also to befall Rio De Janeiro and New Orleans where the pre-lent bacchanal will likewise be missing in 2021.

Publishing the pentatonic piano music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the maestro in the monastery whose biography is as extraordinary as her music.