![Album Review: Daxuva & Nina Miranda – Le Jardin [August 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/daxuva-lejardin-335x335.jpg)
Le Jardin (The Garden) is a soft electro-pop album created in collaboration by Anglo-Brazilian singer Nina Miranda and Brazilian producer Daxuva (Pedro Ferraz) – the debut record under the Daxuva moniker. The album sets itself within a collision; on one side you see the soft, sensual aspects of a garden,...
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Articles![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...
![Album Review: Lokkhi Terra meets Dele Sosimi – Cubafrobeat [Funkiwala Records; June 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cubafrobeat-cover-335x341.jpg)
The holy trinity of pleasure, music that serves mind, body and soul. Cubafrobeat simultaneously feeds them all. The new Lokkhi Terra and Dele Sosimi collaboration show off jazzy solos to power your intellect, but never detract from the chance to lose yourself to dance. Brought together by pianist Kishon Khan,...
![Album Review: Totó la Momposina – Oye Manita [Astar Music; September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/totolamomposina-335x335.jpg)
From Colombia, one of the most musically rich countries in the world, comes a new album by Totó la Momposina, the Queen of Cumbia. A prolific year for the star, this album, Oye Manita (released by Astar Music), presents a range of songs spanning over 30 years of Totó’s career,...
![Album Review: Vaudou Game – OTODI [Hot Casa Records: 26th October 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/vaudou-game-otodi-335x335.jpg)
A sentimental fist-bump to Afro-Funk, Vaudou Game’s album OTODI (released by Hot Casa Records) mixes traditional Togolese scales with a James Brown-style rhythm section intended for ritual dance. Lead songwriter Peter Solo attempts to conjure the spirits of voodoo, the very spirits he converses with daily. The third offering from lead...
![Album Review: Alfa Mist – 7th October (Epilogue) + Antiphon [Sekito Records; 7th October 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/alfa-mist-7th-335x335.jpg)
We’ve talked quite often about the rising British nu-jazz scene, with London town being the pulsing heart of this new wave of talented musicians. Among its bright protagonists, like Kamaal Williams, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, we couldn’t fail to mention Alfa Mist – composer, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist hailing from Newham, London...
![Album Review: S H I R A N – S H I R A N [Batov Records; 2nd November 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/shiran-cover-335x335.jpg)
S H I R A N sings in the language of dreams of freedom. Sharing tales of her family and her community’s journey from Yemen to Israel, she tells stories of desire, determination and hope that never age. Through electronica-inflected Israeli pop, she conjures up dark minimalist landscapes similar to...
![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...
Mr Morski @ Hootananny (London; Sunday 27 January 2019) - FREE ENTRY - MUSIC STARTS AT 9PM