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This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
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The demo version of ‘Please Let Me Go Round Again’ is part of Swamp Dogg‘s latest release on Joyful Noise Recordings. Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Demos features a collection of six demo tracks by the Virginia-born R&B and soul singer/songwriter recorded between the early 1970s to the early 1980s....
‘Tolembi’ is the latest video from UK-based afrobeat and afro-funk band London Afrobeat Collective extracted from their third LP, Humans. Find out more here: https://londonafrobeatcollective.bandcamp.com/ “We are tired – of the governments of the world and their hypocrisy when it comes to human rights. We are asking – for...
Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer Joseph Shabason recently released the first single (and relative video) from his upcoming third solo album titled The Fellowship out on the 30th of April via Western Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/vo1tgm
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![Album Review: Altin Gün – Yol [Glitterbeat Records; February 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/altin-gun-yol-cover-335x256.jpg)
Altın Gün cruise new avenues on Yol, their 80s synth-pop influenced third album. As the opening track of Altın Gün’s highly-anticipated third album Yol segues into the second-track ‘Ordunun Dereleri’, we hear the sound of traffic speeding along highways towards unknown destinations. Indeed the album documents a journey for the...
![Album Review: Gentleman’s Dub Club – Down to Earth [Easy Star Records; March 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/gentlamans-dub-club-down-to-heart-cover-335x256.jpg)
Leeds’ king-sized dub ensemble Gentleman’s Dub Club are in partnership with Easy Star Records on their next album Down to Earth. The album’s defining characteristics are traditional reggae with contemporary modifications for a brighter listening experience. ‘Castle in the Sky’ serves as one of the standout performances from the album, featuring...
![Album Review: Madlib – Sound Ancestors [Madlib Invazion Records; January 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/madlib-sound-ancestors-cover-335x256.jpg)
Those who tend to think of Madlib as curator will find plenty to like here, and that he’s helped along by Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet just adds to the sense of exploration- with a title like Sound Ancestors, a little sonic archaeology is to be expected. While he may...
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We are glad about the fact that the music lovers at Bandcamp haven’t lost their good habits and also in 2021, they will keep on supporting musicians and labels through their Bandcamp Fridays. As it happened on the first Friday of each month throughout 2020, also this year Bandcamp will...
You can hardly start a new year in a better and more optimistic way than listening to some soulful and heartfelt reggae. Mystically, the duo formed by Marie-Lou Fauconnet and Adeline Aurokio, and their brand-new album Iration perfectly fits the bill. The singers and songwriters, based in Besançon, were inspired...
New label, new project and New World… We are always excited when new music projects come to life, and we can’t welcome them enough, especially when their creators are people who care about music and know tons about it, as well as being good old friends of Rhythm Passport. If...
Fancy a full immersion into the recent history of funk? Then Lettuce has what it takes to guide you through the last two decades of the genre. The band, which sprouted back in 1992 from a music programme at Berklee, is a Cliff’s Notes of the rhythmic and groovy funk...
It goes without saying that we will miss Bandcamp Fridays… Today, till midnight (Pacific Time), is indeed the last appointment with one of our favourite initiatives meant to support and bring some well-deserved fee-free income to the pocketsof labels and musicians. So, to celebrate the 10th Bandcamp Friday of this...
Israeli-born with Persian parents, Tel Aviv dwelling artist Liraz is no ordinary electro-pop musician. For the creation of her incredibly popping and danceable second album, she took a big risk to confront religious-political tensions between Iran and Israel, and collaborate with Iranian musicians to create an album influenced by 1970s...