WOMEX – the World Music Expo – is the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of the global music scene, featuring a trade fair, talks, films and a showcase festival. […]
Last part of our three-part interview. Seun Kuti talks to PAM about two new songs on his recently released album, Black Times. The first, “Theory of Goat and Yam” evokes the rampant corruption in Nigeria, […]
Parisian crew Mawimbi unveils second Radio Mawimbi compilation, including works from Umoja, Around The World, Yeahman, LSD, Déni Shain, TBB and Midnight Ravers. Mawimbi’s goal is simple: “undiscovered musical territories thanks to chance encounters with likeminded DJs/producers, who were kind enough […]
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 […]
Analog Africa releases Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974-1975, a great album from Cameroon’s mythical singer Hamad Kalkaba. Hamad Kalkaba was a “distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of […]
Soundway Records releases Mass / Mon Ecole EP the July 14, 2017, the electronic project of english musician Nick Tyson. Sizzling with analogue synths, slicing guitars, warm bass lines and crisp drums, XOA’s compositions take […]
À 79 ans, Bitori, le dernier grand maître du funaná encore en activité semble transporter dans son accordéon toute la beauté et l’histoire du Cap-Vert.
We talked to one of the Hot Casa Records’s two founder, Julien Lebrun. The label mainly offers 1970s afro funk reissues and also welcomes today’s productions of artists who pick up the funk torch.