In this week’s selection: J Hus’unexpected sophomore album, Jeff Parker’s tribute to his mother, the new album of the Pan-African and all-female supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique and more … Photo: Crowns and Owls Big Conspiracy J Hus The […]
In 2022 German agency Piranha Arts, in collaboration with Nyege Nyege, funded 2, 6 week residencies, one in Kampala, Uganda, another in Hamburg, Germany, bringing together over 30 artists from various regions of Africa and […]
After a digital single on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce, Optimo Music welcomes Selwa Abd aka Bergsonist to the main label with a full album, Middle East. Bergsonist aka Selwa Abd is a New York–based artist and […]
Branko’s protégé on his label Enchufada, emancipated himself by signing “Calores”, a scorching new single from the upcoming release of his debut album, Da Linha. The young producer and DJ from Lisbon, spotted by Branko himself, is part of […]
If the afrobeats phenomenon is spreading extensively in the West African music industry, some artists have chosen to offer something different. Gafacci, Ghanaian producer, is part of the package. His music, asokpor, is an explosive […]
Soul Jazz Records’ Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 is the first ever collection of Apala music to be released outside of Nigeria. Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 focuses on a wide selection of recordings made in […]
More than two years after their widely acclaimed debut album, the free jazz collective is back with the impressive track “Homeless/Global”, which heralds an album to be released next spring. Irreversible Entanglements is a free […]
2020 is here. An occasion for PAM to revisit the last decade’s best albums. From 2010 to 2019, here are our 80 essential albums of the decade. It was abundantly clear at the top of […]