On tour to promote his last album Ilana: the Creator, Nigerien Mdou Moctar shares two new tracks.  Nigerien-born, Tuareg musician Mdou Moctar released last year Ilana: the Creator, a striking example of the magic of rock’n’roll-fed Tamacheck guitars […]

Tamikrest returns with a new album Tamotaït, a powerful, irrepressible rock and roll statement, due out 27 March on Glitterbeat. On Tamotaït, Tamikrest’s fifth studio album, the music blazes bright and long. With the political situation so […]

2020 is here. An occasion for PAM to revisit the last decade’s best albums. From 2010 to 2019, here are our 80 essential albums of the decade. It was abundantly clear at the top of […]

With Sahari, a more electronic-music-oriented fifth album, the emblematic musician and activist of the Sahrawi culture sings the pain and hopes of the exiled. In Hassaniya or Spanish, Aziza Brahim’s vivacious poetry carries the voices […]

The Saharawi singer-songwriter and activist Aziza Brahim returns for her 3rd Glitterbeat album following the critically acclaimed, Abbar El Hammad, released in 2016. Aziza Brahim grew up in a camp in the Algerian desert alongside […]

Since their first cassette tape in 1993, Tinariwen has been cultivating a sound, a cadence, and an art of resistance whose splendour and integrity can be heard on Amadjar, the ninth nomadic album recorded in […]

Sahel Sounds will release Anou Malane, an album considered as one of the first studio albums of Tuareg music recorded during a politically charged period. Produced in Benin in 1995, Anou Malane is one of the first studio […]

“Zawal” is extract from their forthcoming ninth studio album Amadjar which is out September 6. Featuring Noura Mint Seymali, Jeiche Ould Chighaly and Warren Ellis, and written by Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, Tinariwen‘s “Zawal” is about witnessing the […]