Date: April 12, 2018 Director: Ahmed Ayed Costumes: Sia Rosenberg Check the new visuals for AMMAR 808’s track, “Boganga & Sandia”, featuring Gnawa musician Mehdi Nassouli, taken from the album Maghreb United. This music video is based on […]

Bargou 08′ sonic mastermind announces his debut album on Glitterbeat Records. Update: listen to the album here. AMMAR 808 is a member of Tunisian funky folk music band Bargou 08. The musician will release in June […]

After four years of absence, Sonido Gallo Negro is about to release its next album, an exotic version of frenzied sounds enriched from all over the continent. Demonstration with their first title “Cumbia Ishtar”. Sonido Gallo […]

PAM’s music critics share their nominations for the best Pan-African albums of the year. The list below is made up of personal favorites to the Pan African Music team, and is just a small roundup of […]

TootArd are a young, trailblazing ensemble from the occupied Golan Heights who deftly fuse Levant-tinted desert blues, melodic psych-rock, morphed reggae and classical Arabic modalities. Their second album Laissez Passer, is their debut international release and one of the first […]

The 4th installment of Glitterbeat’s acclaimed Hidden Musics series is dedicated to one of Africa’s most endangered peoples, Abatwa.

Afro-Tunisian ritual trance meets nomadic Western post-industrial punk. Convulsed children’s bodies, their faces turned towards the sky and their eyes rolling back, people chanting until exhaustion, their feet beating the ground… loud percussions, sometimes slow, […]

Interview with musician Chris Eckman, one of Glitterbeat Records’s two founders about the birth and spirit of an adventure born in Mali.