PAM met Cheb Runner at The Hague’s 2022 Rewire festival, an artist building bridges between a musical past and electric future through the eyes of an angry immigrant bent on unifying the public through dance.

Two musicians bore the name, Joseph Kamaru, a grandfather and titan of Kenyan folk lost to time and an ambient musician grandson in the midst of his destiny.

Our week’s selection includes a rebajada compilation, Tuareg blues, Mzukulu’s latest, the good vibes of Trazyx and the afrofuturist techno of Dopplereffekt.

At Rewire’s eleventh festival edition in The Hague, PAM meets backstage with Ecko Bazz after an explosive performance to talk about love’s place in his earth-shattering music. Interview.

A one-time outsider takes center stage as WurlD releases his latest album My WurlD With U solidifying his rank as a hitmaker and experimenter.

For the third and final in our series on classic albums recorded in Paris in the eighties and nineties during the first coming of “world music” we consider Le Voyageur by Papa Wemba.

In Cairo, between post-revolutionary disillusionment and the unbridled creativity of its music scene, young electronic producer Molotof tells his story.

PAM brings you the latest hits from Nigerian music, from Afrobeats and Afropop to superstars and up-and-comers. Dive into the hottest records to drop in Nigeria in 2022 so far.