PAM sits down with Juba, DJ and documentarian of “Assurance” diving into the plights and lives of female DJs in Nigeria. Nigeria’s musical influence has been growing steadily throughout the decade and in places like […]
2020 is here. An occasion for PAM to revisit the last decade’s best albums. From 2010 to 2019, here are our 80 essential albums of the decade. It was abundantly clear at the top of […]
The EP Chawapiwa is the result of a collaboration with two of Forward Kwenda’s students, recorded in Harare, Zimbabwe. Forward Kwenda is a true ambassador of the mbira, a traditional instrument originating from Southern Africa. […]
Both uncompromising and genre-defying, the highly influential Le Guess Who? festival celebrated its 13th edition between November 7th – 10th in Utrecht, Netherlands, under miraculous sunshine. We report from inside of the exemplary festival. Embrace […]
Led by Scottish-born and South African-adopted Kid Fonque, the label Stay True Sounds gives the prolific local deep house scene the visibility it deserves. With the quality of its releases receiving growing resonance throughout Europe, […]
Before releasing Kinshasa 1978, an album of unreleased recordings from four bands of Kinshasa, Crammed Discs unveils a rare video of the song ‘Il ne faut pas intervenir’ performed by Masanka band. Filmed in the […]
Experimental hip-hop group Clipping’s “The Deep” is a dark sci-fi tale about the underwater-dwelling descendants of African women thrown off slave ships, based on the mythology of Detroit electronic group Drexciya. The song was originally commissioned for […]
The English producer at the head of World Circuit Records has played a key role in the large circulation of African and Cuban music in the Western countries. For PAM he revisited his personal history. First […]