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10 albums to discover from November 2022
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10 albums to discover from November 2022

Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. This November, listen to PsychoYP, Molotof, Somadina, Ezra Collective, and more.

Jazz Is Dead assembles the greats for 11th compilation
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Jazz Is Dead assembles the greats for 11th compilation

Jazz Is Dead welcomes its eleventh edition with Tony Allen, Lonnie Linston Smith, and Jean Carne under the direction of Californian multi-instrumentalist producer Adrian Younge and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed […]

The 30 best electronic albums of 2021
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The 30 best electronic albums of 2021

Listen to 2021’s best amapiano, batida, baile funk, techno, jungle, gqom, afro-futurist and more, making the clubs bounce all across the continent.

Willy N’for’s movements, migration, and the geography of groove
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Willy N’for’s movements, migration, and the geography of groove

Musicians have always travelled. Willy N’for had all the necessary ingredients to want to travel, a troubled past, a complicated life, dexterity with the bass guitar, and an appetite for travelling on the interstellar grooves of funk, with dreams of jamming with giants.

Talking tapes with Onipa
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Talking tapes with Onipa

PAM spoke to Onipa about cassette tapes, family, and higher purpose upon the release of their Tapes of Utopia remix album with guest appearances from the extended Onipa family.

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Archie Shepp: The great champion of transmission
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Archie Shepp: The great champion of transmission

The pioneer of «free jazz » has ceaselessly examined every strata of African-American culture since his arrival on the scene in 1960. He continues his explorations on his new album « Let My People Go », a duo with the pianist Jason Moran.

Onipa and Franz Von reunited on the magnetic “Chicken No Dey Fly”
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Onipa and Franz Von reunited on the magnetic "Chicken No Dey Fly"

A track that announces the release of the mixtape Tapes Of Utopia, scheduled for next September. The collective Onipa brings together the Ghanaian artist K.O.G. and the British Tom Excell, also member of Nubiyan Twist. […]

6 albums you should listen to this week
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6 albums you should listen to this week

Crystal ISSAM ISSAM is a real outlier within the Cherifian kingdom, giving him broad appeal beyond the borders of his native country. Rapping in Darija, the Arabic language used in Morocco and more globally in […]