To avoid falling into back-to-school hopelessness, PAM offers you a list of the best music videos of summer 2021, to keep the same energy at the office as at the club.
Kleopatra Divine is a Rwandan DJ and digger who promotes female artists and understands the sweet science of undulating bodies. A member of the Noir Divine duo and close to the group Moonshine, this “zouk […]
On 30 June 1960, the Congo (DRC) became independent. Alan Brain, director of the movie The Rumba Kings, and Manda Tchebwa, historian of Congolese music, have reconstructed in detail, with the help of archives, African Jazz orchestra’s journey. On their way to Belgium, the orchestra was in charge of brightening up the nights of the delegates participating in the negotiations, and composed the ‘Independence Cha Cha’.
The two jazz legends collaborated on Blue Stompin’, a distant precursor to R&B according to critics. The Canadian label pays tribute to the saxophonist Hal Singer via a reissue of one of his major projects, […]
The singer and guitarist has asked different producers to transform his latest album into a festive new EP. Déni Shain opens proceedings with his reinterpretation of “Papa Kossa.” David Walters, from France and the Antilles, […]
The story of how the iconic label and its roster embraced newly independent Africa in the 1960’s. From Ghana to Nigeria and on to Tanzania via Art Blakey, Lee Morgan and McCoy Tyner
Cee Elassaad has become a heavyweight on the afro-house scene, who helped put Morocco on the electronic music map.
Two years after PAM told you about The Rumba Kings the film is finally being released. The DOXA festival in Vancouver has selected the film and will screen it on 6th May.