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![Album Review: Sociedade Recreativa – Sociativa [Jarring Effects; February 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sociedaderecreativaalbum-335x256.jpg)
Sociativa (Jarring Effects) is a punchy, electronic and beat-heavy rendition of older Brazilian pieces (mostly from North East Brazil) which have been remade for a modern audience. Definitely made for sub-woofers and loudspeakers, the heavy bass frequencies interact with traditional styles in an exciting fashion. Sociedade Recreativa is a collaboration between...
![Album Review: ¿Que Vola? – ¿Que Vola? [Nø Førmat!; 25th January 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/quevolaalbumcover-335x256.jpg)
A brassy, ritualistic sound from a band making a cross-cultural union. ¿Que Vola? is a new group, experimenting with bop-style horns over a foundation of Cuban Santeria rumba groove. Put together by jazz trombonist Fidel Fourneyron, with the help of double-bassist Thibaud Soulas, the French jazz collaborative enrols three of...
![Album Review: Auntie Flo – Radio Highlife [Brownswood Recordings; October 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/auntiefloradiohighlife-335x256.jpg)
Brian d’Souza is a Glaswegian-born DJ, musician and producer of both Goan and Kenyan descent, who spent seven years travelling far and wide to places such as Uganda, Cuba and Norway. As Auntie Flo, d’Souza created Radio Highlife – released on 12th October 2018 via Brownswood Recordings – that can...
Playlists & Mixes
With so much good music being published and uploaded every month, we constantly find hard to keep up with all the releases. Luckily, “we get by with a little help from our friends”… We are more than thrilled to welcome and introduce you to Chamonix-based online radio, record label, DJs...
It’s International Women’s Day and here at Rhythm Passport HQ we’re celebrating female power with a playlist of 20 of our favourite female world and jazz artists. Let these musicians take you through the sound of femininity in its ever-changing forms, from the wild sassiness of Sudan Archives to the...
We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to 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:
We are lucky enough to have been in touch with musicians who love their job and can freely play what they like without constrictions or limitations imposed by the industry, labels, managers, agents, and so on and so forth… One of the latest outcomes of this blessing is Do Not...
There are some bands in music that become established after they have been on the scene for a number of years, say one decade. Then there are other bands that become established through sheer genius and ingenuity. This was the case from the beginning with British funk band Cymande, who...
There’s a new live music jam in (London) town, but with a twist. Parasang is a weekly series happening at Redon in Bethnal Green, which mixes synth beats and electronic sound manipulation with live instrumentation. Each week, the event hosts a fresh new group of musicians from a different discipline....
When you think you have entirely unravelled and got the full picture of Hejira and their music, here they are to throw you off guard with their brand-new work. Thread of Gold, their recently released second album on Lima Limo Records, is indeed incisive and gentle, at the same time...
When Amira Kheir’s very first song at The Junction on Saturday night was greeted with joyous ululating from a refreshingly diverse crowd, the tone was set for a special gig. `Save those for later’ she promised, leading her band into the shimmering ‘Amwaj’ (Waves) from her latest album Mystic Dance....
Since 2016, when we first met them at WOMAD UK, we have constantly felt under the rocky spell of Kel Assouf. The roughness of their sound, which goes side-by-side with their heartfelt and profound lyrics, has brought new life into the so-called Tuareg rock style. Despite being based in Brussels...