![Album Review: Afrikän Protoköl – Beyond The Grid [Abozamé Records, May 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/afrikan-protokol-335x300.jpg)
Beyond the Grid by Afrikän Protoköl innovatively fuses music from Europe and Burkina Faso. They raise an energetic plethora of styles within the album, ranging from afro-beat to jazz, to big band and rock. All of these are played with a love and enthusiasm, and follow their aim of crossing...
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Articles![Album Review: GoGo Penguin – A Humdrum Star [Blue Note Records; February 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gogo-penguin__1517483127_128.65.101.130-335x335.jpg)
GoGo Penguin is one of those bands that are impossible to define within a genre or a scene. Yet, since their debut in the UK scene with their first album Fanfares, they have come out with their very own signature sound: hearts rooted in jazz and classical training exploring the...
![Album Review: The Turbans – s/t [Six Degrees Records; April 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/theturbans_cover_300dpi-335x335.jpg)
The Turbans announce their arrival with an eclectic self-titled debut album, which takes inspiration from all around the world. Released on Six Degrees Records on April 6th, The Turbans’ whirlwind album is similar to taking a trip around the world in 80 days. You may struggle to find a corner...
![Album Review: Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile [Impulse! Records; March 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sons-of-kemet-your-queen-335x335.jpg)
Jazz-punk saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings once again flexes his artistic influence to scatter seeds of thought with new album Your Queen Is A Reptile. With a fearsome message and angry reflection, he challenges listeners to understand the power of the individual and reconsider the relevance of our country’s leadership. Hutchings forces...
![Album Review: Imarhan – Temet [City Slang; February 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/imarhan-temet-335x335.jpg)
Imarhan are a five-piece Tuareg band from Tamanrasset, the Southern Algerian part of the Sahara desert that covers much of North Africa. Their second album Temet is released by the same label as their successful debut – City Slang. Temet was self-produced in Paris, with the help of genre pioneers...
![Album Review: BKO – Mali Foli Coura [BUDA Musique; November 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bko-mali-foulo-coura-335x335.jpg)
Modern five-piece BKO return with their second album Mali Foli Coura released on Buda Musique records. Hailing from Mali, BKO combines fresh and zesty experimental sounds while remaining faithful to their African heritage, creating a unique, eclectic, electric, and danceable sound. After exhaustive tours stretching across Europe, China, and Africa,...
![Album Review: Dirtmusic – Bu Bir Ruya [Glitterbeat; February 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/dirtmusic-335x335.jpg)
Dirtmusic return with their fifth album, Bu Bir Ruya, released on the well-established label Glitterbeat Records. Differing from previous endeavours, Bu Bir Ruya is a partnership with Turkish psychedelic pioneer Murat Ertel – of alternative Turkish band Baba Zula. Recorded in a converted car garage in Istanbul, Bu Bir Ruya combines...
![Album Review: 47Soul – Balfron Promise [Cooking Vinyl; February 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/47soul-cover-335x335.jpg)
It was in Jordan’s capital city of Amman where 47Soul formed in 2013, bringing together Jordanian and Palestinian members from the Levant region of Bilad al-Sham to produce their debut album Intro to Shamstep, a set of 5 tracks fuelled with high-energy synthesizers where traditional Dabké and hip-hop verses in...
![Album Review: Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974 -1975 [Analog Africa; December 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/hamad-kalkaba-335x335.jpg)
Following on from 2017’s hotly received Pop Makossa collection, Analog Africa label head Samy Ben Redjeb has dug even deeper into Cameroon’s dusty vinyl vaults and unearthed the lost recordings of Hamad Kalkaba. Kalkaba was a gifted young musician who rose to become chief of the Republican Guard’s Orchestra, but...
![Album Review: Welcome to Zamrock! Volume 1 & 2 [Now-Again Records; June 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/welcome-zamrock-335x335.jpg)
As Gleb Anfilov put it, our planet has always been a giant atelier of music creation, of instruments, songs, and also an immense concert hall. The history of West African music and of mid-20th-century rock in particular, as is the subject of this review, is of this planet and both...
