Little was known until recently of the futuristic sound emerging from the ghettos of Dar es-Salaam, which now is exporting itself to dance floors across the globe. Ten years on from its conception, singeli has […]
The idea for Nazar’s first album Guerrilla came during his time in war-torn Angola. PAM reads between the lines of this work of experimental kuduro music, with its creator’s assistance. ‘Rough Kuduro’. This is Nazar’s […]
Who better to close our Black History Month feature than with this militant centenarian. Tim Black rubbed shoulders with the greatest figures in 20th century Black History: political leaders and jazz legends jostle in the memories […]
Get together eight artists from a number of different countries and backgrounds for a week in Nairobi to create an album and a documentary – this was the ambitious gamble made and won by 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 […]
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 […]
In this week selection: the long awaited sophomore albums from Kaytranada and Stormzy, the third volume of Moonshine’s mixtape, the exciting compilation Mogadisco and many more to hear this week. Heavy Is The Head Stormzy After serving us some impressive […]
This week find a remix album of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Rainford, the first album from French-Senegalese duo Guiss Guiss Bou Bess, the golden era of séga by Bongo Joe and much more. Set Sela Guiss Guiss Bou Bess […]