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Dub No Frontiers gives voice to female reggae artists
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Dub No Frontiers gives voice to female reggae artists

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 […]

Eugène Mona: A comet in Caribbean skies
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Eugène Mona: A comet in Caribbean skies

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.

Oumou Sangaré : “It’s difficult to rattle me”
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Oumou Sangaré : "It’s difficult to rattle me"

In Mali, her home country, she is busy with a project to create an institute ; she recorded her new album Timbuktu in the United States ; and she has recently become an actress in a film shot in France. Oumou Sangaré is back indeed and speaks cogently and with humour about her thirty-year career. Interview.

Soul Jazz reissues Studio One Dub compilation
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Soul Jazz reissues Studio One Dub compilation

Soul Jazz is reprinting a 2xLP compilation of Coxsone Dodd’s dub versions with Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne and more for an 18th anniversary edition. A long out of print classic, Studio One Dub is being […]

Hector “Roots” Lewis talks “Ups and Downs” and reggae debut
Interview
Hector “Roots” Lewis talks “Ups and Downs” and reggae debut

PAM sat down with Hector “Roots” Lewis to talk about the latest single “Ups and Downs”, his reggae upbringing, and building a new foundation with Chronixx’s new independent imprint Soul Circle. 

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Burundian soul man J.P. Bimeni drops anti-racist ode ahead of new album
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Burundian soul man J.P. Bimeni drops anti‑racist ode ahead of new album

From royal refugee to award winning artist, J.P. Bimeni has now announced the arrival of his new album Give Me Hope with a song dedicated to Black American activist James Stern. In the writing of […]

Jamaica mourns Robbie Shakespeare
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Jamaica mourns Robbie Shakespeare

The bassist passed away yesterday from kidney disease in Florida at the age of 68, leaving behind a legacy that extends far beyond the island’s borders.  Today (December 9th) the world lost a reggae legend. […]

Lovers Rock: when Sade reunited with her first love
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Lovers Rock: when Sade reunited with her first love

Twenty years ago, British-Nigerian soul icon Sade paid homage to a British subgenre of reggae with a homecoming album, Lovers Rock.