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Album Review: Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha [Awesome Tapes From Africa; March 2020]

The man with the Moog is back when we needed him most. Following his acclaimed 2018 release Lala Belu, the unassuming elder of Ethiopian music Hailu Mergia returns with his soothing synths for Yene Mircha translating from Amharic as “My Choice”. Ever since Buena Vista Social Club and (before) we’ve celebrated...

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Interview: PYJÆN – A South-East London Anthem (March 2020)

PYJÆN are a five piece London based jazz-fusion band that write music with that in-the-moment live feel. They are releasing a new track “PJFC” from their second EP on 2nd April and this is a banger of a tune. They are ready to lift your mood out of lockdown blues...

1 Apr
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Bandcamp’s Fundraiser Special (Friday 20th March 2020)

It doesn’t happen everyday that online music platforms champion the cause of musicians, but Bandcamp has showed us, more than once, to be different from the vast majority of music platforms. Today (until 11.59PM Pacific Time), to support all the artists affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oakland-based company will...

20 Mar
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Album Review: Chassol – Ludi [Tricatel; March 2020]

French composer and musician Christophe Chassol, who has collaborated with Frank Ocean and Solange, has become known for “ultrascore”, a musical technique that can be thought of as harmonising reality. Ludi (released on 6th March 2020 via Tricatel) is his latest effort applying this technique, as he continues to draw...

19 Mar
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Album Review: Let Drum Beat – Lua Cheia [February 2020]

Let Drum Beat’s debut album – Lua Cheia – was recorded in the Navegas Cantareira Studio housed within a tropical forest in Brazil. The London based all female group consisting of Alba Cabral, Béa Shantifa, Lizzie Ogle and Tuca Milan have created an album that is charming and simmering with...

19 Mar
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Event Review: Oum @ Passionskirche (Berlin, Germany; Wednesday 4th March 2020)

‘Berlin, the city where everything works’, said no Berliner ever. Having witnessed the world-famous German technology out of action and run through the crowded Gneisenaustrasse U-Bahn exit (the one not closed due to construction), we scraped through the front doors of Passionskirche and found empty seats. Ironically enough, around here...

16 Mar
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Preview: Gaia Mobilij + Giuliano Osella & Quimbara @ Hootananny (London; Sunday 22nd March 2020)

On the 22nd of March we will sail off to the Mediterranean and far beyond, with Gaia Mobilij, Giuliano Osella and Quimbara. Gaia Mobilij is a musician born and bred in Italy. However, thanks to her perpetual wandering around the world, she explores the sounds of far away cultures including...

10 Mar
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Preview: Sounds of the World presents Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London + Gaia Mobilij @ Tramshed (London; Saturday 21st March 2020)

Launched in September 2017 by Nepalese musician and good friend of Rhythm Passport Ganga Thapa, Sounds of the World music series has brought to Tramshed in Woolwich scents and notes from all over the world. So, we are thrilled to re-set the events in motion with a musician who has helped...

4 Mar
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London Gig Guide (March 2020)

At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...

4 Mar
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Preview: Princess Nokia @ EartH (London; Friday 20th March 2020)

Princess Nokia is a perfect representation of contemporary hip-hop, and a wonderful fixture of feminist rap. Representing perhaps an anti0-movement because Princess Nokia brought back – or perhaps invented – emo rap, she’s a Puerto Rican American and she sings about not conforming to gender ideas. She takes her intersectional...

4 Mar
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Preview: Irreversible Entanglements @ Corsica Studios (London; Tuesday 10 March 2020)

Be prepared to be moved emotionally and physically by this fast tempo, politicised and poetic jazz in a small venue in South London. Sweeping the world of jazz over the last couple of years, International Anthem has put out album after album of powerful and passionate Chicago jazz. The iconic...

4 Mar
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Preview: Shabaka Hutchings’s ONE FEST @ EartH Hackney (London; Saturday 14th March 2020)

Shabaka Hutchings has dominated and towered over British jazz since first bursting onto the scene with Sons of Kemet somewhere around 2015. Building on each album and project, it is fair to say Shabaka is now an international star. His defining, siren-like saxophone sound can be heard at festivals and...

4 Mar
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Preview: 3MA – Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi & Rajery @ The Jazz Cafe (London; Sunday 22nd March 2020)

3MA are somewhat a pan-African power group formed of Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi and Rajery in which they interweave three different musical traditions, each ancient, from various parts of Africa. Ballaké Sissoko represents Mali by playing the traditional West African harp – the kora – of which the playing...

4 Mar
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Preview: Let Drum Beat ‘Lua Cheia’ Album Launch @ Rich Mix (London; Friday 27th March 2020)

We love when musicians defy barriers and boundaries, and since they started playing together back in 2012, Let Drum Beat have constantly challenged stereotypes. The most glaring ones? That four women can’t play percussion in a full-female band with such a rhythmic drive. Still, here they are. The London-based quartet,...

4 Mar
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Preview: WARA X Kallemi [Palestina-Latina Takeover] @ ULU Live (London; Saturday 7th March 2020)

If you are a Rhythm Passport aficionado, you probably already know Wara and their very own energising and heart-stirring sound. The all-female London-based trio is a good-and-proper fun generator embracing the Afro-Latin and Afro-Cuban roots of its members and boosting them with London underground accents. On Saturday the 7th of...

4 Mar
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Preview: Global Beats Club w/ Afrikan Boy + Saronde & More @ Hootananny (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

We are huge fans of Afrikan Boy here at Rhythm Passport. So much so, that every time the South London musician parties in his hometown you will find us in the front row. That’s what will also happen at Hootananny on Friday the 6th of March, when the Global Beats...

4 Mar
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Preview: FLAWA 2020 – Launch party with Riobamba @ EartH (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

Every festival worthy of its name features an exhilarating launch party. So, we can’t help but look forward to the Flawa 2020 Opening Party at EartH Hackney on the 6th of March. We were more than thrilled to read that after the success of its first edition, Flawa Festival will...

4 Mar
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Preview: Kampire + Boko! Boko! (Mina, Tash LC, Juba) @ The Jazz Cafe (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

A journey into Afro-bass and far beyond. On Friday the 6th of March, The Jazz Cafe will host some exciting and up-and-coming names of the Afro-dance scene, with an all-female DJ night organised by London party-starters family Boko! Boko! Mina, Tash LC and Juba, who are the beat masters behind...

4 Mar
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Preview: AWAN Festival (London; Thursday 5th March to Sunday 29th March 2020)

Starting off at Rich Mix on Thursday the 5th of March, with the new expression of the Arab Sound, AWAN Festival will enlighten the London’s March nights with a calendar of outstanding gigs, performances, shows and workshops fully focussed on Arabic women artists and their work. If you are a...

4 Mar
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Preview: Mungo’s Hi-Fi @ Phonox (London; Wednesday 4th March 2020)

Since 2000, Mungo Hi-Fi has been redefining the concept of soundsystem by bringing it back to basics using techniques such as mixing, blending, stretching and manipulating the canonical dub, dancehall and reggae vibes with global influences. Throughout the 20 years of its uptempo career, the Glaswegian crew has taken its sounds...

4 Mar
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Album Review: Hailu Mergia – Yene Mircha [Awesome Tapes From Africa; March 2020]

Interview: PYJÆN – A South-East London Anthem (March 2020)

Album Review: Chassol – Ludi [Tricatel; March 2020]

Album Review: Let Drum Beat – Lua Cheia [February 2020]

Event Review: Oum @ Passionskirche (Berlin, Germany; Wednesday 4th March 2020)

Preview: Gaia Mobilij + Giuliano Osella & Quimbara @ Hootananny (London; Sunday 22nd March 2020)

Preview: Sounds of the World presents Simo Lagnawi & Gnawa London + Gaia Mobilij @ Tramshed (London; Saturday 21st March 2020)

London Gig Guide (March 2020)

Preview: Princess Nokia @ EartH (London; Friday 20th March 2020)

Preview: Irreversible Entanglements @ Corsica Studios (London; Tuesday 10 March 2020)

Preview: Shabaka Hutchings’s ONE FEST @ EartH Hackney (London; Saturday 14th March 2020)

Preview: 3MA – Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi & Rajery @ The Jazz Cafe (London; Sunday 22nd March 2020)

Preview: Let Drum Beat ‘Lua Cheia’ Album Launch @ Rich Mix (London; Friday 27th March 2020)

Preview: WARA X Kallemi [Palestina-Latina Takeover] @ ULU Live (London; Saturday 7th March 2020)

Preview: Global Beats Club w/ Afrikan Boy + Saronde & More @ Hootananny (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

Preview: FLAWA 2020 – Launch party with Riobamba @ EartH (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

Preview: Kampire + Boko! Boko! (Mina, Tash LC, Juba) @ The Jazz Cafe (London; Friday 6th March 2020)

Preview: AWAN Festival (London; Thursday 5th March to Sunday 29th March 2020)

Preview: Mungo’s Hi-Fi @ Phonox (London; Wednesday 4th March 2020)

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