In 2022 German agency Piranha Arts, in collaboration with Nyege Nyege, funded 2, 6 week residencies, one in Kampala, Uganda, another in Hamburg, Germany, bringing together over 30 artists from various regions of Africa and […]
Photo: © Paul Rousteau Mysterious artist Slingbaum has announced his debut album Slingbaum One, and it features some high profile guests. On January 15, through a shared post on his Instagram account, the enigmatic artist Slingbaum announced […]
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 […]
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 […]