To kick off 2025, PAN M 360 asked several of its partners’ artistic directors to suggest their favorite albums of the past year.
Since 2020, Sépopo Galley has been the music programmer under the artistic direction of Les Nuits d’Afrique, a direction assumed by the legendary Lamine Touré since the founding of this production and diffusion company, a key player in the Montreal ecosystem. Throughout the year, this French programmer, Afro-descendant and Montrealer by adoption, works hard to seek out and recruit the countless artists endorsed by Nuits d’Afrique, especially in the context of the major Nuits d’Afrique festival, presented in Montreal every July.
Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter
Ibibio Sound Machine – Pull the Rope
Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes