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. […]

With this seventh studio album Anthony Joseph is back to his roots. Recorded on his native island of Trinidad, this album entitled “People of the Sun” is a tribute to Port of Spain (POS), this bubbling port, meeting […]

  Trinidad born, London based poet Anthony Joseph announces new album and shares new song      “Dig Out Your Eye” With this new studio album Anthony Joseph is back to his roots. Recorded on his […]

Reissues always remind us that the ocean of music is much deeper than the surface of new releases. From Ghana to Colombia, passing by Somalia, Zimbabwe or Mali, PAM has selected 30 reissues from 2022 that bring back from oblivion the great archives of African music.

“It Is Like My Music Was Waiting For This Generation” says disco funk relic Steve Monite as he tells the story of his oddball musical career and the massive reemergence of his timeless boogie classics.

Inventive labels are revealing to the world forgotten musical gems, full of history and lost to the archives. Here’s a selection of some of the best African reissues of 2022.

The violin – in all its forms – undoubtably plays a major role in the music of the African continent. Here we present an overview of the stringed instrument, played by those who made it famous in the past, as well as those who celebrate its resonance today.

Our forty favorites albums published in 2018 This was almost Mission Impossible: we chose about forty of the many records that have surprised us, cheered us up, conquered us this year. Finding a guiding principle […]