Every month, PAM browses the pan-African scenes to offer a selection of ten fresh releases. To prolong the summer, dive into Nigeria’s musical heritage with Tony Allen and Ayo Manuel, take a detour to Beirut with Charife Megarbane and go crazy with DJ K.

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 […]

With his posthumous album, There Is No End, the legendary Afrobeat drummer continues to inject rhythms into our lives exactly one year after his passing. On April 30, 2020, Tony Allen left us. This former […]

In “Cosmosis,” the Nigerian poet and British grime artist combine for the first track on the new posthumous album by the afrobeat legend. Recorded in London, in March 2020, in the famous Studio 13, “Cosmosis” […]

London duo Coldcut unveils the track “Future Toyi Toyi” from their collaboration KELEKETLA! with artists from South Africa. Keleketla! is a collaborative project that started at Keleketla! Library, an independent library in Johannesburg. The album […]

The British group Gorillaz dropped its new track “How far” in featuring with Tony Allen, and the pioneer of the British drill music, Skepta. An anticipated release to salute the memory of the giant Nigerian drummer who passed recently.

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. […]

Rejoice, the long-awaited collaborative album between two African music legends, Tony Allen and the late Hugh Masekela, will finally be released on March 20th via World Circuit. Photo credit: Brett Rubin & Bernard Benant Having […]