Today is election day in Angola. The people will go to the ballot box to elect a new parliament and a new president. For the occasion, we decided to republish excerpts of the interview Pedro […]

Inside a medieval castle and under the star-lighted sky of the Portuguese Atlantic coast, singer Oumou Sangaré and her musicians entertain a very mixed audience – in style, age and social class. At the same […]

À 79 ans, Bitori, le dernier grand maître du funaná encore en activité semble transporter dans son accordéon toute la beauté et l’histoire du Cap-Vert.

At 91 years, the transgressive diva of Brazilian popular music died at home in Rio. Born on the “planet of hunger”, queen of the “bossa negra”, she lived several lives, the last of which – that of the “woman of the end of the world”, had begun in 2015. Two years later, she gave an interview to PAM.

Afro-Tunisian ritual trance meets nomadic Western post-industrial punk. Convulsed children’s bodies, their faces turned towards the sky and their eyes rolling back, people chanting until exhaustion, their feet beating the ground… loud percussions, sometimes slow, […]

Eight years after her last record, Oumou Sangaré’s album Mogoya was released on May, 19th on Nø Førmat! label. We met with the Malian diva in Paris.

We talked to one of the Hot Casa Records’s two founder, Julien Lebrun. The label mainly offers 1970s afro funk reissues and also welcomes today’s productions of artists who pick up the funk torch.

Brazilian samba eventually rediscovers its political meaning through São Paulo-based rapper Criolo, with the first single of his new album “Espiral de Ilusão” (spiral of illusion), available today.

INTERVIEW. Binhanquinhe Quimor is simply Binhan, singer and composer from Guinea-Bissau, who, since 2008 has denounced the social and political misery of his country.

Interview with musician Chris Eckman, one of Glitterbeat Records’s two founders about the birth and spirit of an adventure born in Mali.

“São Vicente is a little Brazil / Full of joy and colours / During these three wild days / There are no brawls, it is the carnival / A conviviality [morabeza], to be found nowhere […]