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![Daily Discovery: Byron Biroli – Secrets [Official Video]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/96824hqdefault-335x256.jpg)
Byron Biroli addresses drug addiction in Noir Wave single ‘Secrets‘: “Secrets is a conversation with partner about my drug addiction. ‘Some things I can’t hide, you will find. Secrets I won’t deny.’ It’s about opening up to someone for the first time. The lyrics in the chorus are a direct...
Album Reviews
![Album Review: Yonatan Gat – Universalists [tak:til; May 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/yonatan-gat-335x256.jpg)
Found sounds and field recordings have become prevalent throughout contemporary music. Anna Clyne’s Chicago Street Portraits, Henrique Eisenmann’s Jeneupti and even Fleet Foxes’ latest album Crack Up, all use rough and raw audio to create intriguing musical contrasts and comment on our relationship with culture and society. Yonatan Gat is...
![Album Review: Sun Ra – Of Abstract Dreams [Strut Records; March 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sun-ra-of-abstract-dreams-335x256.jpg)
Sun Ra‘s Of Abstract Dreams is a previously unreleased album from jazz pianist and bandleader’s archives. This four-piece recording (released in March by Strut Records) was performed for WXPN-FM radio station between approximately 1974 and 1975. The compositions in the album are always surprising and contrasting, led by Sun Ra...
![Album Review: Kamaal Williams – The Return [Black Focus Records; May 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/kamaal-the-return-335x256.jpg)
London has always held a place of honour in the music world, being a propeller of new musical waves and a playground for musical innovators. In recent years, London has seen a bunch of young talents bringing jazz music back to the centre of the scene. Artists like Shabaka Hutchings,...
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Heading to Love Supreme Festival next weekend? After having checked our event preview, get into the festival mood with a jazzy playlist featuring our suggestions. Watch the full playlist:
There’s no need to go to Stonehenge to welcome the summer! Join us at Rich Mix on the 21st June and we will bring you plenty of sunny and warming vibes thanks to Rumba de Bodas and DJ Lou Pino! To set the mood, we have asked the most up-and-coming...
After four joint albums together over the span of a decade, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto thought they had nothing left to say. If it had not been for director Iñárritu, who brought them back together in 2015 to make them work on the score of his film The Revenant,...
Further expanding the horizons of modern jazz, Tigran Hamasyan was joined by Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and the London Vocal Octet to bring about a fusion of the past and present. It is the unpredictable nature of Tigran that keeps his listeners coming back time and time again to his...
There’s arguably no need for introducing an artist like Natty… The London-based singer/songwriter, with Afro-American and Italian roots and an unconditional love for reggae, has reached the 10th year of his career and will celebrate the anniversary with an upcoming special release. Instead, what we would like to present and...
Sofyann Ben Youssef is not the kind of musician who likes having too much attention on himself. Despite being the master builder and wizard behind the sounds of some of the most exciting North African projects of recent times, you have probably never heard of him. That’s because he likes...
Everyone knows a ‘Dame Blanche’, but only a few of us are lucky enough to know one who’s an electrifying singer, remarkable flautist and a natural show woman. Our own Dame Blanche is indeed all of these things and more; Yaite Ramos Rodriguez (her real name) is, without a doubt,...
Unrestrained, delirious and other-worldly, The Return is the latest album release from Kamaal Williams. Cruising on the fumes of Black Focus, his 2017 collaboration with Yussef Dayes, Williams launched his newest jazz-fusion solo offering alongside bassist Pete Martin and drummer MckNasty. Despite Williams and Dayes no longer working together, this...