The Pan African Music team select their favorite 2017 reissues. Compilations, vinyl reissues and exclusive archive gems: a short focus on 25 timeless albums that made our year. Listen to selections from this list on […]
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 […]
Waists thrust at everything, pounding, shaking, and sending up billowing clouds of dust. Far from the city, particles fly in every chaotic direction as hands and feet beat at the earth. At the Balani Show, […]
Cortega picks a DJ or producer who puts Africa and its diaspora in the spotlight. Featuring an exclusive playlist of the 10 sounds that have shaped their musical universe. Today, let us introduce Black Charles, from Ivory Coast.
This week, three shades of gqom, women reggae artists take their righful place, sweet Nigerian beats, the new thing coming from Kenyan and reggae meets hip-hop.
Pure Akan wields his heritage and folk stories to create an empowering backdrop to his hiplife sound. The rapper, singer and linguist takes us through the power of names, history and his latest album, Nyame Mma.
British producer Adrian Sherwood, along with artist Kerieva McCormick, are part of the project in which he co-produced ten tracks featuring the vibrancy, richness and energy of female reggae artists’s music. Reggae has often been […]
The man from Martinique who blended Creole poetry and the flute of Martinique’s mountainous regions had an incandescent and singular trajectory. The child from Marigot, composer of the song “Bwa Brilé”, continues to inspire younger generations today.