Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. This January, we’re starting the year right listening to Seyi Vibez, Aya Nakamura, LA Timpa, Ajebutter22, and more.
The Face To Face project, a rare recording of the magical encounter between Sotho folk singers and Swedish collective, is brought back to life by Strut Records. Out January 27th.
This year was more electric than ever. From Lagos to Dar el Salaam, London, Durban and Kampala, here’s our selection of electronic albums that shook the dancefloors are broke our speakers in 2022.
This week, Congolese punk energies, Ayra Starr gets even more dangerous, a post-colonial take on lusophone music, mzansi rap and a moving Afro-cuban reunion.
This week, an invitation to dance over jerky kuduro-inspired rhythm, an abrasive and sensual record, some modern take on the lulanga, seven minutes of Afrofusion and some hybrid funk.
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.
Nancy Mounir is bringing music back to life in her Cairo studio, exploring the tuning systems outside of the Arabic mainstream used by Egyptian artists in the 1920s for a new composition that reimagines the sounds that were uninvited to the Congress of Arab Music.
Our week’s selection includes Malian diva Oumou Sangaré’s fusion album, Pierre Kwenders’ hommage to Papa Wemba, KMRU & Aho Ssan reveal an explosive album, Congolese rumba is revisited under an experimental rock lens and Okmalumkoolkat takes a hip-hop detour from gqom.