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Album Review: Various Artists – La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 [Bongo Joe Records; March 2021]

Welcome to a visionary inner self odyssey, spanning the golden age of Spanish electronic music. La Ola Interior groups two generations of artists; some young such as: Miguel A. Ruiz, Victor Nubla, or Camino al Desván, and an older one gathering names such as Finis Africae, Suso Saiz and Javier...

11 Apr
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Interview: Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella – ‘The God of Profit is Not the Only God on Earth’ (April 2021)

This is an album that has landed at a time we may most appreciate it. Elevation is at the heart of this record. It is an LP inspired by afrobeat and spiritual jazz with strong elements of Detroit groove pulsing through the soundtrack. Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella’s message is...

7 Apr
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Articles News

News: Bandcamp Your Friday (Friday, 2nd April 2021)

New Bandcamp Friday and new shopping tips… As we often do on the first Friday of each month, when Bandcamp lifts its fees redistributing all sales profits to artists and their labels, also today we give you some suggestions on how to spend your money on music effectively supporting musicians....

2 Apr
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Album Review

Album Review: University Challenged – Oh Temple! [Hive Mind Records; January 2021]

An ambient and psych music to be watched! The self-made films that go along with the music create an eccentric and almost political discourse. Influenced by a melange of musical genres and styles, from kosmische musik, electronic and experimentation to indie, pastoral guitar soli, and krautrock, University Challenged have walked...

1 Apr
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Interview: Urban Village – The Documentary (March 2021)

We can’t welcome enough every opportunity we are presented to reach and write about Urban Village. Not only because we never made it a secret that we are fans of the music of the Soweto-based quartet, but also because their cultural relevance and topical drive- when it comes to narrating...

29 Mar
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Album Review: Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol.2 [Kabul Fire Records; January 2021]

Finding one’s place within a diaspora away from your motherland can be an integral part of self-discovery. This is certainly true of Hamburg-based producer Farhot, who has now followed-up his eight-year-old debut with Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (released via his own label Kabul Fire Records) which explores this part of...

29 Mar
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Interview

Interview: Q&A w/ Guedra Guedra – A Contemporary African Reader

On the 12th of March, On the Corner Records released an album which has already “booked” its place in our ‘end of the year’ list. Vexillology, by Moroccan musician, producer, sound archiver, field recording and sound artist Guedra Guedra, goes far beyond the phonographic boundaries. The debut LP of the...

24 Mar
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Interview: Kaleema – ‘The Most Beautiful Thing is When Two Worlds Crash’

It’s not been easy, Kaleema tells us, to make herself a nurturing musical home. Two inner worlds kept colliding. The seemingly disparate areas of her creative life, classical study and electronic production, kept crashing against each other. But Kaleema persevered through her orchestral upbringing. She found her way to the...

3 Mar
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Album Review

Album Review: Altin Gün – Yol [Glitterbeat Records; February 2021]

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...

2 Mar
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Album Review: Gentleman’s Dub Club – Down to Earth [Easy Star Records; March 2021]

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...

25 Feb
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Album Review: Madlib – Sound Ancestors [Madlib Invazion Records; January 2021]

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...

22 Feb
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Preview: Penya (Livestream Show) w/ Papaoul (DJ) + Lilli de Penya (DJ) @ Folklore (Online; Saturday 13th February 2021)

It might not be the same as enjoying their set under a stage, dancing to and experiencing first-hand their visionary Afro-Latin percussion-led sound, but you can still make the most of and revel in Penya‘s dreamy and inspiring vibes in our current locked down times. How? For example, attending, wherever...

12 Feb
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Articles News

News: Bandcamp Your Friday (Friday, 5th February 2021)

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...

4 Feb
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Event Preview: Sound Sketches from Nepal (Online; Sunday 24th January 2021)

We will always be grateful to music for keeping on allowing us to travel even in these days of lockdowns and bans. So, for our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we...

21 Jan
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Interview

Interview: Q&A w/ Mystically – Upbeats for Your Soul

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...

10 Jan
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Album Review Articles

Your Ticket to… 2020 (in 20+1 Albums)

Hard to believe that such a dire and dramatic year could inspire such an abundance of remarkable albums. Or maybe, on the contrary, the multitude of emotions sparked by the pandemic and our new life’s circumstances might have been the main reasons why musicians were able to write, record and...

6 Jan
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Album Review: Oumou Sangaré – Acoustic [No Format!; June 2020]

Acoustic is a rootsy reimagining of Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré’s 2017 album Mogoya, but where Mogoya used a palette of beats and synths, Acoustic says more with less. Opening with ‘Kamelemba’, a song of counsel warning women away from sweet talkers and playboys, Oumou’s majestic voice converses with the jittery...

5 Jan
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Album Review: Songhoy Blues – Optimisme [Transgressive Records; October 2020]

Songhoy Blues stay true to form with bold third LP Optimisme – released via Transgressive Records. If there is one thing the world needs right now – not least the beleaguered music industry – it is hope. Desert Blues luminaries Songhoy Blues seek to deliver just that with their third...

23 Dec
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Album Review: Bab L’Bluz – Nayda! [Real World Records; July 2020]

This is a very exciting debut album by French-Moroccan band Bab L’Bluz. Lead singer Yousra Mansour and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin recently learned the awashi and guembri (sintir/bass lute) while exploring their love of Gnawa music and ended up in a four-piece psychedelic blues rock band. It really is much more...

23 Dec
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News Playlists

Playlist: Discover the “New World” of Megatronic (December 2020)

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...

15 Dec
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Album Review: Various Artists – La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 [Bongo Joe Records; March 2021]

Interview: Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella – ‘The God of Profit is Not the Only God on Earth’ (April 2021)

News: Bandcamp Your Friday (Friday, 2nd April 2021)

Album Review: University Challenged – Oh Temple! [Hive Mind Records; January 2021]

Interview: Urban Village – The Documentary (March 2021)

Album Review: Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol.2 [Kabul Fire Records; January 2021]

Interview: Q&A w/ Guedra Guedra – A Contemporary African Reader

Interview: Kaleema – ‘The Most Beautiful Thing is When Two Worlds Crash’

Album Review: Altin Gün – Yol [Glitterbeat Records; February 2021]

Album Review: Gentleman’s Dub Club – Down to Earth [Easy Star Records; March 2021]

Album Review: Madlib – Sound Ancestors [Madlib Invazion Records; January 2021]

Preview: Penya (Livestream Show) w/ Papaoul (DJ) + Lilli de Penya (DJ) @ Folklore (Online; Saturday 13th February 2021)

News: Bandcamp Your Friday (Friday, 5th February 2021)

Event Preview: Sound Sketches from Nepal (Online; Sunday 24th January 2021)

Interview: Q&A w/ Mystically – Upbeats for Your Soul

Your Ticket to… 2020 (in 20+1 Albums)

Album Review: Oumou Sangaré – Acoustic [No Format!; June 2020]

Album Review: Songhoy Blues – Optimisme [Transgressive Records; October 2020]

Album Review: Bab L’Bluz – Nayda! [Real World Records; July 2020]

Playlist: Discover the “New World” of Megatronic (December 2020)

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