It might not be the same as enjoying their set under a stage, dancing to and experiencing first-hand their visionary Afro-Latin percussion-led sound, but you can still make the most of and revel in Penya‘s dreamy and inspiring vibes in our current locked down times. How? For example, attending, wherever...
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We are glad about the fact that the music lovers at Bandcamp haven’t lost their good habits and also in 2021, they will keep on supporting musicians and labels through their Bandcamp Fridays. As it happened on the first Friday of each month throughout 2020, also this year Bandcamp will...
For our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we took a three-hour trip to Nepal to experience its sounds and stories and have a sneak peek into its culture. You can now...
We will always be grateful to music for keeping on allowing us to travel even in these days of lockdowns and bans. So, for our first online event of 2021, we went the extra mile, in the true sense of the word, and ended up in Nepal! On Sunday, we...
You can hardly start a new year in a better and more optimistic way than listening to some soulful and heartfelt reggae. Mystically, the duo formed by Marie-Lou Fauconnet and Adeline Aurokio, and their brand-new album Iration perfectly fits the bill. The singers and songwriters, based in Besançon, were inspired...
Hard to believe that such a dire and dramatic year could inspire such an abundance of remarkable albums. Or maybe, on the contrary, the multitude of emotions sparked by the pandemic and our new life’s circumstances might have been the main reasons why musicians were able to write, record and...
![Album Review: Oumou Sangaré – Acoustic [No Format!; June 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/oumou-sangare-acoustic-cover-335x335.jpg)
Acoustic is a rootsy reimagining of Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré’s 2017 album Mogoya, but where Mogoya used a palette of beats and synths, Acoustic says more with less. Opening with ‘Kamelemba’, a song of counsel warning women away from sweet talkers and playboys, Oumou’s majestic voice converses with the jittery...
![Album Review: Songhoy Blues – Optimisme [Transgressive Records; October 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/songhoy-blues-optimisme-cover-335x335.jpg)
Songhoy Blues stay true to form with bold third LP Optimisme – released via Transgressive Records. If there is one thing the world needs right now – not least the beleaguered music industry – it is hope. Desert Blues luminaries Songhoy Blues seek to deliver just that with their third...
![Album Review: Bab L’Bluz – Nayda! [Real World Records; July 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bab-lbluz-cover-335x335.jpg)
This is a very exciting debut album by French-Moroccan band Bab L’Bluz. Lead singer Yousra Mansour and multi-instrumentalist Brice Bottin recently learned the awashi and guembri (sintir/bass lute) while exploring their love of Gnawa music and ended up in a four-piece psychedelic blues rock band. It really is much more...
New label, new project and New World… We are always excited when new music projects come to life, and we can’t welcome them enough, especially when their creators are people who care about music and know tons about it, as well as being good old friends of Rhythm Passport. If...