fbpx → Skip to main content
The Pan African Music Magazine
©2024 PAM Magazine - Design by Trafik - Site by Moonshine - All rights reserved. IDOL MEDIA, a division of IDOL Group.
Yemi Alade: “Nigeria is like a sponge, it absorbs any sound.”
Interview
Yemi Alade: "Nigeria is like a sponge, it absorbs any sound."

A very productive singer now under contract with Universal, Nigeria-born Yemi Alade recently visited Paris. She had just released Woman of Steel, her 4th album. PAM met with the highly determined iron woman. Since her […]

Jazzman Moses Boyd shares striking new single, ‘Stranger Than Fiction’
News
Jazzman Moses Boyd shares striking new single, 'Stranger Than Fiction'

“Sadly the truth is often stranger than fiction.” South London award-winning drummer, producer, composer and BBC 1Xtra resident DJ Moses Boyd is back a new single “Stranger Than Fiction”. It follows last year’s EP Displaced Diaspora and collaboration with South […]

The variant colours of Amaarae
Discover
The variant colours of Amaarae

The rising Ghanaian singer has recently unveiled the sensual “Like it” and is currently working on a new project. Due to her musical style, her commitments and her message, she is an unidentifiable artist in […]

Fela’s stories: Confusion Break Bone
Series
Fela's stories: Confusion Break Bone

When I say confusionEverything out of-ee controlWhen everything out-ee of control-eeE go be say, it Pafuka-oh (Pafuka na quench) Abidjan, 2001: I receive an unlikely offer. I’m invited to stage the play Le Fou du […]

6 albums you need to hear this week
News
6 albums you need to hear this week

 In this selection this week: new album from the vanguard of South Africa’s electro scene Muzi, the follow up to Fly or Die from trumpeter Jaimie Branch, the UK sensation Afro B and many more to hear […]

Loading
Confirmed
Loading
Confirmed
7 albums you need to hear this week
News
7 albums you need to hear this week

In this week’s selection : the visionary rap of JuJu Rogers, the jazz fusion from Neue Grafik Ensemble, experimental house project by hit-maker DJ Prince Kaybee and much more to hear this week…   40 […]

Habibi Funk, the label playing hide and seek in Medina
Article
Habibi Funk, the label playing hide and seek in Medina

Already at the controls of the label Jakarta, Jannis Stürtz takes us behind the scenes of his latest project, Habibi Funk, intended to reissue forgotten North African musical treasures. From Morocco to Sudan via Libya […]

6 albums you need to hear this week: Mahalia, Tinariwen, Daymé Arocena and more
News
6 albums you need to hear this week: Mahalia, Tinariwen, Daymé Arocena and more

In this week’s selection: the Tamasheq blues of Tinariwen, the rise of Afro-Cuban artist Daymé Arocena, the debut album from British soul sensation Mahalia and much more to hear this week. Tinariwen Amadjar Recorded in the […]