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 […]
A rundown of the most notable South African hip hop releases from 2019. South African hip hop went through a dip in 2018, creatively speaking. While there were a fair amount of releases — Nasty […]
Lesotho-born South Africa-based writer Tseliso Monaheng selected an overview of some hip joints that saw us through 2019. Photo: Abdullah Ibrahim by Gabriel Bertogg The new breed of the South African jazz landscape was swingin’ loud […]
South African quartet Urban Village joins French label No Format to announce a debut album with the single “Sakhisizwe” along with a contagious live recording. Feet steeped in tradition and head bowed toward the future, […]
At the Transmusicales festival, “trance” is not just a word in its name. PAM accompanied artists at the festival whose music is closely linked to a phenomenon ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget dedicated a reference book to, […]
Strut presents the second volume in a series of compilations taken from the archives of Disques Debs International, the longest-running and most prolific label of the French Caribbean. Set up by the late Henri Debs […]
Some of the finest music ever made between South African and Nigerian artistes. Nigerians and South Africans have a long history of collaborating. Although the music from both these nations share very diverse background and […]
In this week’s selection: the new album from emblematic Sahrawi culture activist Aziza Brahim, Khuli Chana’s third studio album, the second EP from afrobeat prince Ghetto Boy and many more to hear… Sahari Aziza Brahim The Saharawi singer-songwriter […]