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Ibibio Sound Machine makes an electric comeback
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Ibibio Sound Machine makes an electric comeback

The Nigerian-British band announces Electricity, a new futuristic Afro-dance album produced by synthpop band Hot Chip.  The collaboration between Ibibio Sound Machine and British band Hot Chip was born out of a shared love of […]

Awesome Tapes From Africa puts Gabonese harp in the spotlight with Papé Nziengui
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Awesome Tapes From Africa puts Gabonese harp in the spotlight with Papé Nziengui

The American label is set to reissue Kadi Yombo, a monument to Gabonese “postmodernism” from the late 1980s.  The album Kadi Yombo, originally released in 1989, is a particularly successful project in the quest for […]

Bonga, the golden voice of Angola, returns from his childhood courtyard
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Bonga, the golden voice of Angola, returns from his childhood courtyard

The legendary singer announces a new album with “Ti Zuela”, first single from a project full of memories and tender nostalgia.  The Angolan childhood of José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho alias Bonga, in the mid-1940s, […]

Napoleon Maddox, Sorg and Jowee Omicil pay tribute to Toussaint Louverture
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Napoleon Maddox, Sorg and Jowee Omicil pay tribute to Toussaint Louverture

At the crossroads of hip-hop, jazz and blues, American rapper Maddox explores the history of the Haitian general in a show soon to be presented in Paris.  Napoleon Maddox, an American rapper who recently moved […]

UnPop Live brings restorative live performance to Khaya Lendaba Village
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UnPop Live brings restorative live performance to Khaya Lendaba Village

PAM presents an exclusive premier of Unpop Live’s Village Frequency Edition, an immersive livestream inviting 5 acts to showcase their tonic, healing and meditative music in the Credo Mutwa cultural village. 

7 albums to discover this week
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7 albums to discover this week

Liye Liye La Roche La Roche’s new project has the objective of painting “a vivid, pineal tickling four dimensional picture of Congolese culture in 2022”. To do so, the Fulu Miziki producer immersed himself in […]

Total Hip Replacement gets down with Kwashibu Area Band on “Smoke and Mirrors”
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Total Hip Replacement gets down with Kwashibu Area Band on "Smoke and Mirrors”

A Danish-Ghanaian collaboration for a reggae-highlife throwback.  Written and recorded in a single session, “Smoke and Mirrors” is the result of a meeting between the Danish musicians of Total Hip Replacement and the Kwashibu Area […]

Rap roundup: Kojey Radical, Skillibeng, MC Bin Laden & more
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Rap roundup: Kojey Radical, Skillibeng, MC Bin Laden & more

Each week PAM scours the digital vaults for the latest and greatest rap from across the African continent and its diaspora.