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 […]

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.

Le légendaire Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, un des plus vieux et prolifiques d’Afrique, sort aujourd’hui un nouvel album : Madjafalao.

Meet Khalil Epi, a Tunisian electronic producer on a mission to weave a thread through traditional music, pop, European club and North African art music.

This month, Ko-Jo Cue makes his comeback, Tkay Maidza chooses violence, followed by the sounds of Bamako on Sunday and gnawa rave music.

Franco-Tunisian DJ and producer, Malaise Vagal injects the essence of her North African heritage into a bass music that’s both uncompromising and humorous, while affirming her support for Palestine. Malaise Vagal draws its inspiration from […]