“This is a mix I made after many months of listening to this genre. Organic sounds mixed with electronic beats. Textures, sounds, extractions and sample manipulations. As I say, it’s digital folk on steroids. Tracks from Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, Denmark, and more.” (Iñaki Martinez) Track list: Moglebaum – Synthie & Roma...
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![Album Review: Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir [Glitterbeat Records; 26th October]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gaye-cover-335x335.jpg)
Making her UK performance debut earlier this year at WOMAD UK, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer Gaye Su Akyol is definitely one to watch (if you haven’t already). Growing up on Anatolian pop and rock, she takes these genres along with her interest in psychedelic, surf, post-punk and electronic sounds to...
![Album Review: Waaju – Waaju [Olindo Records; May 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/waaju-cvoer-335x335.jpg)
Waaju’s self-titled first LP came out in May to a small crowd in Swan’s Wharf, during the Giant Steps summer residency. The evening was atmospheric, enticing and exceptionally hot. The old warehouse was filled with the diverse sounds of Waaju, an Afro-Latin quintet based in London. You will recognise the...
The EFG London Jazz Festival will once again deliver a range of music that crosses continents, genres and generations. Its listings will spread across the entire city and it’s remarkable that so much can be fitted into just one week. All this makes it impossible to review the whole festival...
On 3rd January 2018, one of the world’s finest and most inspirational horn players died. After a career of changing music, and not just in his homeland of South Africa, Hugh Masekela was sadly taken from the world of jazz. Having been a figure of defiance throughout apartheid, and a...
The EFG London Jazz Festival will once again see the return of the formidable Abdullah Ibrahim and his band Ekaya. Having performed twice before at the EFG London Jazz Festival this is not a one-off chance to see a legend, but it is still one of the highlights of the festival....
This year’s EFG London Jazz festival will bring together a wide range of international jazz artists, as well as top local talents. There aren’t many UK Jazz artists as important to the scene as Orphy Robinson; with a history of musical directing, performing and composing, asking one of the UK’s...
![Album Review: Plaza Francia Orchestra – Plaza Francia Orchestra [Because Music; September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plaza-francia-cover-335x335.jpg)
Plaza Francia presents Plaza Francia Orchestra on the Because Music label, September 2018. Born of the critically acclaimed success story that is Gotan Project, Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H. Muller volunteer themselves for this inventive new venture. Following a succession of previous masterful albums, La Revancha del Tango, Lunatico and...
A special show by London-based Bahla awaits us as part of Royal Albert Hall’s Late Night Jazz Sessions in their smaller venue, The Elgar Room. The Royal Albert Hall has been putting on these evenings for a long time, and recently have seen many of London’s up-and-coming jazz artists grace...
![Album Review: Bokanté and Metropole Orkest – What Heat [Real World Records; 28th September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bokante-what-heat-335x335.jpg)
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Album Review: Bokanté and Metropole Orkest – What Heat [Real World Records; 28th September 2018]
Two hot, Grammy award-winning jazz outfits – Bokanté (founded by Michael League of the multicultural New York-based group Snarky Puppy) and Metropole Orkest (the jazz and pop orchestra whose chief conductor Jules Buckley had previously collaborated with Snarky Puppy in 2016) – released What Heat on 28th September 2018 for...