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...
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What happens when three good things come together: good food, good music and a good cause? The Colour of Jazz brings Chats Palace to life with a night dedicated to all the good things. Join us and loads of others on 23rd February for a good cause and good music....
An installation of storytelling, music and art, Wolf of Baghdad takes you on a journey through a Jewish family’s memories of their lost Iraqi homeland. Bringing together a number of different elements, this audio-visual installation appears like a graphic novel, being pushed along by gentle Middle Eastern folk music. Graphic...
We are pretty excited to welcome back Rhythm Passport On Air, our monthly podcast series in collaboration with SOAS Radio, endeavouring to update you on the world music world. The first episode of the revamped program boasts an interview with Songhoy Blues bandleader, which took place a few days before...
In a time of unrest for one of the most historic countries in the world, music and arts have kept Mali connected to its past. Bassekou Kouyate, one of the great ngoni players, answered some of our questions on his musical heritage, the power of music and what he hopes...
![Preview: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba @ Subterania [London; Sunday 27th January 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bassekousubte-335x471.jpg)
Malian legend Bassekou Kouyate leads his band Ngoni Ba at Subterania to play his new album and to carry on his lifelong ambition to share and promote the West African instrument, the ngoni. Subterania, a small venue in West London, welcomes one of the world’s best ngoni players. Bassekou Kouyate...
View Panda Palm bio here The Manchester-based duo Panda Palm takes you on an eclectic psychedelic and funky journey through different continents, times and atmospheres. Informed by the world music nights their collective Me Gusta has been putting on for the past two years and the new Me Gusta sister night...
![Album Review: Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba – Miri [Outhere Records; 25th January 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/bassekoumiri-335x335.jpg)
Musical genre; the most common contention between genre labelling and the music itself. Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba really hit the nail on the head with this next album, Miri. Although not in an authentic sense but rather a sonic excursion into what is real, it is centred on issues...
![Album Review: Akua Naru – The Blackest Joy [The Urban Era; April 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/akuanarublackest-335x335.jpeg)
Akua Naru released her third album, The Blackest Joy, on 27th April 2018 on The Urban Era label. Growing up in Connecticut, Naru was originally influenced by gospel sounds from the Pentecostal church. From the age of nine, however, she was introduced to hip hop by her uncle despite secular...
By now, you’d already know that we don’t like charts, ranks or hierarchies. So, of course, we have compiled a list of our favourite albums of the year (next to songs and videos), but more than a ranking, we prefer to call our choices a “music guide to 2018”. To...
What Colour Is Jazz? @ Chats Palace (London; Saturday 23rd February 2019)
Gipsydelica @ Hootananny (Sunday 24th February) - FREE ENTRY -