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Né la thiass: looking back at Cheikh Lô’s enduring debut
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Né la thiass: looking back at Cheikh Lô's enduring debut

PAM revisits the timeless classic Né la thiass from Burkina-born singer and songwriter Chiekh Lô, produced by the one and only Youssou N’Dour and a pillar from the golden era of African music. 

Kanazoé Orkestra, balafon to the world
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Kanazoé Orkestra, balafon to the world

Led by master griot Seydou Diabate, the Kanazoé Orkestra blends traditional balafon music with a cosmopolitan collection of musicians and sounds to bring the instrument to a new world of listeners.

Avalanche Kaito unveils trippy visuals for “TOULELE”
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Avalanche Kaito unveils trippy visuals for “TOULELE”

The Belgian-Burkinabe trio just released a new clip with highly potent and symbolic visuals for their new single “TOULELE”, part of their eight-track debut album. There aren’t that many Belgian-Burkinabe bands outhere and even less […]

Avalanche Kaito, punk griots from Burkina Faso
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Avalanche Kaito, punk griots from Burkina Faso

The Belgian-Burkinabe trio has just released “Le repas du cobra”, their first track, via the notorious Glitterbeat Records.  Avalanche Kaito is the meeting between Kaito Winse, a Burkinabe urban griot, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, and a […]

Soundtracking FESPACO, Burkina Faso’s Pan African film festival
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Soundtracking FESPACO, Burkina Faso’s Pan African film festival

From awkward presidential entrances to prize winning soundtracks, music has scored the iconic film festival that brings together filmmakers from across the continent and diaspora since its inception in 1969.

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Secousse honors the Burkinabè icon Black So Man on compilation of reissues
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Secousse honors the Burkinabè icon Black So Man on compilation of reissues

The Marseille-based label pays tribute to one of the most engaged musicians of the country of ‘the upright man,’ by reissuing his works, gathered on Tout Le Monde Et Personne. Bintogoma Traoré, better known as […]

Victor Démé: “Without music, the world would go mad”
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Victor Démé: "Without music, the world would go mad"

Ten years on from the album’s initial release, Heavenly Sweetness have reissued a vinyl release of the record that turned the late Burkinabé singer famous, who passed away in 2015.

Joey Le Soldat back with striking new video ‘J’ai mal au Congo’
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Joey Le Soldat back with striking new video 'J'ai mal au Congo'

Burkinabé rapper and activist returns with Faaso, a new EP to drop before the end of the year. He just unveils the first single “J’ai mal au Congo” with a rough music video. Joey le […]