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![Album Review: Ariwo – Quasi [MANANA Records; May 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ariwo-quasi-cover-335x256.jpg)
A four piece, Ariwo is made up of: Hammadi Valdes from Cuba on percussion; Oreste Noda; Canadian Jay Phelps (a renowned trumpeter who has played with Hugh Masekela, Wynton Marsalis and Soweto Kinch, among others); and Iranian-born composer/producer Pouya Ehsaei. They specialise in bringing traditional rhythms together into a modern...
![Album Review: Dexter Story – Bahir [Soundway Recordings; March 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/dexterstory-bahir-335x256.jpg)
A highly eclectic range of instruments are to be heard on Dexter Story’s latest LP for Soundway, Bahir. Story is a multi-instrumentalist, who has been referred to as a polymath and clearly enjoys getting immersed in music. This is a groove-laden mixing pot of styles, all simmering away while the...
![Album Review: Youssou N’Dour – History [Naive Records; April 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/youssou-ndour-history-335x256.jpg)
With the stately new album History, Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour follows up his 2018 Prom and celebrates his 60th birthday. A confusing collection of old songs from N’Dour’s repertoire with added special guests and a few new tunes; it’s fine, but no fire. Alongside bands like The Bhundu Boys, Youssou...
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The new summer party courtesy of Gilles Peterson. We Out Here is bringing together a diversity of global rhythms with acts playing soul, jazz, funk, R&B, hip-hop, Afrobeat, disco and electronic music. As is familiar for Gilles, this will be a curiously eclectic mix of styles and you can expect...
Playlist: ArianoFolk Festival 2019 (Ariano Irpino, Italy; Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18th August 2019)
We love it when music gives us the opportunity to travel and discover (more or less) hidden secrets, whether they’re in the form of sounds, artists or events. Ariano Folk Festival clearly belongs to the latter category, but every summer it helps us to unearth new inspirations, and we learn...
Every month, we bring you a monthly collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
UPCOMING EVENTS
The glorious Love Supreme returned to the prime Sussex pastures of Glynde for its seventh year, and what a return it was. With such a startling array of talent on offer, it was a mighty challenge to stay in one spot for too long for fear of missing out elsewhere....
Art, talks, music and performance combined in another wonderful addition of Brainchild Festival. As up-and-coming performers graced the early slots and smaller stages, those who paid their dues took it upon themselves to deliver the politically-motivated, exhilarating headline shows. A festival made for relaxing, there is plenty of time for...
Returning to leafy Lloyd Park for its sixth year, Walthamstow Garden Party served up an eclectic mix of big names and young performers, bringing together an international line-up for an international crowd. A festival ‘made locally’ and produced by Barbican Centre, Create London and the people of Waltham Forest (declared...
If you are looking for a 360° musician, look up the name Steve Pretty. The trumpet player, orchestra director, composer, arranger, producer and much, much more is a true all-round artist. However, for the chat we had with him a few days ago, we decided to focus our attention on...
Tony Haynes is co-founder and composer for Grand Union Orchestra (GUO), a group of exceptional artists in London making original cross-cultural music. They are a band that celebrate diversity as an emphatic theatrical art form and use music to join prejudicial gaps. After watching an incredibly moving live show from...
If you want to relate with and understand the present state of a country, listen to its hip-hop music. That’s increasingly becoming a rule in the current cultural scenario. MCs have indeed become intrinsic to the social fabric of their communities. They sing about them, fight for them and are...