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![Album Review: Quantic & Nidia Góngora – Curao [Tru–Thoughts Records, 12th May 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/a1363138718_10-335x256.jpg)
Curao brings together the mystical music traditions of the Colombian Pacific Coast with captivating modern day production to spectacular effect. Will ‘Quantic’ Holland and Nidia Góngora, who is considered one of the foremost artists of the typical marimba music of the South Pacific region, mix those unique & rich traditional...
![Album Review: Retrospective for Love – Random Activities of a Heart [Wormfood Records, 10th March 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/a2873499866_10-335x256.jpg)
Random Activities of a Heart is the debut album of Retrospective for Love, a London-based international neo-soul band active since 2010. Released on 10th March on Wormfood Records — the same label of Afriquoi, to give you a clue — the much-awaited long player follows two EPs that made them...
![Album Review: The Great Malarkey – Doghouse [Batov Records, 7th April 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/a2612631491_10-335x256.jpg)
What happens when gypsy, folk, punk and blues influences converge into the spirit of an eight-person band, after a five-year break from intense writing, listening and performing on tour? The answer might be something like a ticking bomb ready to explode and well… That is the case for The Great...
Playlists
Heading to Womad or maybe you are already strolling along Charlton Park green, good and ready to enjoy the world music festival par excellence? We have something for you…We went through the music treasure trove that is Womad 2017’s line up and picked 20 acts you shouldn’t miss. From Thursday to Sunday, Open...
We discovered them almost one year ago thanks to their debut album and it was love at first listen. That’s why, a few weeks after the release of their second work (Entremundos) and a few days before their second UK tour (with a stop-over at London’s Jazz Café on the...
Don’t worry, we know quite well how do you feel… you had a look at the Boomtown Festival lineup and you’ve been so overwhelmed by names of bands, artists, DJs and stages that you don’t know where to start from. But, don’t sweat it…Rhythm Passport is here for you! Next to...
A grey, dank Friday evening welcomed Colombia’s La Mambanegra as guests of the Biennial Manchester International Festival. The tent interior was wrapped in black and fans gathered, sitting cross-legged, waiting for the band. Hailing from Cali, the nine-piece La Mambanegra (The Black Mamba) take to the stage, safe in the...
It is not often that you can attend a live performance evoking a historical music phenomenon that no present music scene will ever bring back. It’s what music does, it transcends both space and time – we get to feel how innovative and unique that time was. And how relevant...
Like the valley where she comes from, Ösp’s music is a well-preserved and inspiring Icelandic secret. The singer/songwriter from Svarfaðardalur (in the North of the country) has never followed the electro-pop or ambient hype prompting the Icelandic music scene to become one of the most vibrant of the world. Instead,...
We don’t often go back home sweating and physically tired after a gig, but when we do, it’s because we’ve danced the show away and that’s inevitably what you’ll end up doing when Mokoomba are on stage. Since 2008, the Zimbabwean quintet put their souls and bodies in their performances...
There are musicians who are part of our everyday London environment, and we have experienced first-hand their artistic growth since the very first steps they took in the British capital. For this reason, it’s exciting for us to announce the debut EP of a good friend of Rhythm Passport: Merlyn...
An hour before Vieux Farka Touré is due on stage at The Jazz Café during his UK tour, he generously agreed to spend fifteen minutes sharing his thoughts about his latest music. Son of Grammy award-winning Malian blues musician, Ali Farka Touré, he has also achieved the status of globally...