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.
In Mali, her home country, she is busy with a project to create an institute ; she recorded her new album Timbuktu in the United States ; and she has recently become an actress in a film shot in France. Oumou Sangaré is back indeed and speaks cogently and with humour about her thirty-year career. Interview.
Soul Jazz is reprinting a 2xLP compilation of Coxsone Dodd’s dub versions with Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne and more for an 18th anniversary edition. A long out of print classic, Studio One Dub is being […]
PAM sat down with Hector “Roots” Lewis to talk about the latest single “Ups and Downs”, his reggae upbringing, and building a new foundation with Chronixx’s new independent imprint Soul Circle.
From royal refugee to award winning artist, J.P. Bimeni has now announced the arrival of his new album Give Me Hope with a song dedicated to Black American activist James Stern. In the writing of […]
The bassist passed away yesterday from kidney disease in Florida at the age of 68, leaving behind a legacy that extends far beyond the island’s borders. Today (December 9th) the world lost a reggae legend. […]
Twenty years ago, British-Nigerian soul icon Sade paid homage to a British subgenre of reggae with a homecoming album, Lovers Rock.
Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia and pan-African instigator, created an apocryphal personality and reign that has resonated into the reggae Rastafari and Africa’s modern political backdrop.