It’s not often that we have the opportunity to musically travel to Russia, so we are pretty excited to bring you the new episode of Rhythm Passport On Air dedicated to one of the most exciting names coming from the Moscow indie music scene, Lucidvox. The all-female quartet is redefining...
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In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
There was something extra jubilant and euphoric about the Tallinn Music Week that managed to take place, against all odds, in the latter part of August. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, Estonia invited delegates and music lovers from the world over to flee any which way they could, to Tallinn Medieval Old...
There’s no doubt that, since last time we met them two years ago, the Nakhleh brothers have grown up, changed and arguably matured. Musically, they sound like two different people. As much as TootArd, the group they founded in Majdal Shams (their hometown on the Golan Heights) in 2010, sounds...
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
![Album Review: TootArd – Migrant Birds [Glitterbeat Records; May 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tootard-migrant-birds-335x335.jpg)
Tootard is one of my favourite bands, their combination of Middle Eastern tonalities: the maqqam scales, with Caribbean reggae and western funk and disco – is not only original, but innovative. Migrant Birds is their third studio album, out on the hit churners Glitterbeat Records. The brother duo Hasan and...
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
![Album Review: Tamikrest – Tamotaït [Glitterbeat Records; March 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/tamikrest-tamotait-cover-335x335.jpg)
Tamikrest is one of the familiar names to gain international success from the Northern areas of the Sahara desert, spanning Mali to Algeria and more. The centuries old nomadic inhabitants of this unforgiving land are the Tuareg, or (Kel) Tamasheq – such as Tamikrest, and they are a displaced people,...
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
Despite the lockdown, Rhythm Passport On Air is back! For the April episode of our podcast, we had the pleasure to meet Estonian contemporary folk sensations Trad. Attack! We had a chat about their new release Make Your Move and how digging through the Estonian heritage audio archives has helped to provide the...