Analog Africa releases Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974​-​1975, a great album from Cameroon’s mythical singer Hamad Kalkaba. Hamad Kalkaba was a “distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of […]

Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist of Haitian descent announces Radyo Siwèl, her second album on french label No Format. After doing research on United States occupation of Haiti for her upcoming album Radyo Siwèl, Mélissa Laveaux pays tribute to […]

TootArd are a young, trailblazing ensemble from the occupied Golan Heights who deftly fuse Levant-tinted desert blues, melodic psych-rock, morphed reggae and classical Arabic modalities. Their second album Laissez Passer, is their debut international release and one of the first […]

Soul Jazz Records puts the light on the beginning of Dancehall with new compilation Studio One Supreme: Maximum 70s and 80s Early Dancehall Sounds. By the 1970s Studio One and Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already […]

Jamaican singer Ken Boothe performs an acoustic version of “Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)” – a song he recorded for the first time in 1974. Ken Boothe returns with an exceptional new […]

Stormzy, Kalash, Damso, Niska, Kiff No Beat et Oddisee. A weekly selection made by PAM’s editors and writers. Find these tracks on our SPOTIFY and DEEZER playlist.    STORMZY – 4PM IN LONDON Oddisee – You Grew Up Kalash – Mwaka […]

New single “Sowia” from the Montreal-based DJ Producer is such a jam. Listen to our premiere of “Sowia” new song starring Canadian-Moçambican singer Samito: Totally danceable and hypnotic song “Sowia” heads to South East Africa with it’s […]

‘Ma Mama’ is the first single of Toto Bona Lokuanew album Bondeko. 13 years later, trio’s alchemy is still working. Martinican Gérald Toto, Cameroonian Richard Bona and Congolose Lokua Kanza made one of No Format’s founder albums […]