JAI/MAHL is Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being)’s new project. His EP The Message of Zipf is released via new french record label TV Showw. With the help of his mentors Adonis and Steve Poindexter, Jamal Moss […]

‘Ma Mama’ is the first single of Toto Bona Lokuanew album Bondeko. 13 years later, trio’s alchemy is still working. Martinican Gérald Toto, Cameroonian Richard Bona and Congolose Lokua Kanza made one of No Format’s founder albums […]

Rumba as a bridge between Africa and Northern America via the Caribbean: ÌFÉ is the musical and spiritual project of the Afro-American DJ, producer, percussionist and composer Otura Mun, born Mark Underwood in the US, and […]

“La La Love” and “Tuba Tuba” are singles from Pierre Kwender’s second album MAKANDA at the End of Space, the Beginning of Time set to be released on September 8th via Bonsound. After a critically acclaimed summer hit, […]

Congolese-Canadian DJ Bonbon Kojak from Montréal-based “afrocentric collective” Moonshine comes back with a powerful afro-electronic mixtape “Doce Doce” The collective who hosts secret parties in town is home to Pierre Kwenders, Kae Sun, The Posterz and has featured acts such as DJ Windows 98 (Arcade […]

‘Fadjamou’ by Oumou Sangaré is the third single from her Mogoya album, released via No Format. Following a sold-out Village Underground headline earlier this year and an outstanding set at Glastonbury that was named ‘one of […]

At 91 years, the transgressive diva of Brazilian popular music died at home in Rio. Born on the “planet of hunger”, queen of the “bossa negra”, she lived several lives, the last of which – that of the “woman of the end of the world”, had begun in 2015. Two years later, she gave an interview to PAM.

Eight years after her last record, Oumou Sangaré’s album Mogoya was released on May, 19th on Nø Førmat! label. We met with the Malian diva in Paris.