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Bab L’Bluz, or Gnawa’s eternal voyage
Feature
Bab L’Bluz, or Gnawa’s eternal voyage

With their debut album, Nayda, the band Bab L’Bluz mix the rhythms of Gnawa trance with rock and curling incense. Both poetic and powerful.

Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, two giants reunited beyond death
Interview
Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, two giants reunited beyond death

Tony Allen has completed the project he began ten years ago with his friend Hugh Masekela, who left us in 2018. Following the release of this new album, Rejoice, PAM met the brilliant drummer in Paris. […]

Pamela Badjogo unveils new music video ‘Ngoka’
Music Video
Pamela Badjogo unveils new music video 'Ngoka'

The Gabonese singer wonders about the status of women in Africa. Known especially for lending her voice to the musical Kirikou & Karaba, Pamela Badjogo has collaborated with great names — on stage or in […]

Nick Gold: “Ali Farka Touré was larger than life”
Interview
Nick Gold: "Ali Farka Touré was larger than life"

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 […]

Ghanaian xylophone master Isaac Birituro and Sonny Johns team up on ‘Yesu Yan Yan’
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Ghanaian xylophone master Isaac Birituro and Sonny Johns team up on 'Yesu Yan Yan'

Watch the music video for the first single of this collaboration recorded in Kalba, Ghana. To be released on Februabry 22nd on Wah Wah 45s. Isaac Birituro hails from the world-renowned lineage of xylophone virtuoso Kakraba Lobi. Leeds-based […]

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WOMEX 2018 embrace the evolving global music scene
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WOMEX 2018 embrace the evolving global music scene

WOMEX – the World Music Expo – is the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of the global music scene, featuring a trade fair, talks, films and a showcase festival. […]

New Video: Okzharp & Manthe Ribane – Kubona
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New Video: Okzharp & Manthe Ribane ‑ Kubona

Director: Chris Saunders & Cool Your Jets Date: 1st June, 2018 Album: Closer Apart Label: Hyperdub Okzharp and Manthe Ribane is producer Gervase Gordon a.k.a. Okzharp, vocalist, artist and dancer Manthe Ribane. Photographer and film maker Chris Saunders […]

Watch Stunnning New Fatoumata Diawara Video for ‘Nterini’
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Watch Stunnning New Fatoumata Diawara Video for 'Nterini’

Fatoumata Diawara have shared a new song ‘Nterini’, first extract of Fenfo, her new record since 2011’s Fatou. It arrives May 25 . Watch below the video directed by the photographer and Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh. ‘Nterini’ (which means “my love […]