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...
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![Album Review: Let Drum Beat – Lua Cheia [February 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/let-drum-beat-lua-cheia-335x295.jpg)
Let Drum Beat’s debut album – Lua Cheia – was recorded in the Navegas Cantareira Studio housed within a tropical forest in Brazil. The London based all female group consisting of Alba Cabral, Béa Shantifa, Lizzie Ogle and Tuca Milan have created an album that is charming and simmering with...
‘Berlin, the city where everything works’, said no Berliner ever. Having witnessed the world-famous German technology out of action and run through the crowded Gneisenaustrasse U-Bahn exit (the one not closed due to construction), we scraped through the front doors of Passionskirche and found empty seats. Ironically enough, around here...
On the 22nd of March we will sail off to the Mediterranean and far beyond, with Gaia Mobilij, Giuliano Osella and Quimbara. Gaia Mobilij is a musician born and bred in Italy. However, thanks to her perpetual wandering around the world, she explores the sounds of far away cultures including...
14/03/2020 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Kongo Dia Ntotila Poplar Union, London
05/03/2020 - 29/03/2020 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm Awan Festival Rich Mix, London
We love when musicians defy barriers and boundaries, and since they started playing together back in 2012, Let Drum Beat have constantly challenged stereotypes. The most glaring ones? That four women can’t play percussion in a full-female band with such a rhythmic drive. Still, here they are. The London-based quartet,...
![Preview: WARA X Kallemi [Palestina-Latina Takeover] @ ULU Live (London; Saturday 7th March 2020)](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wara-kallemi-ulu-335x166.jpg)
If you are a Rhythm Passport aficionado, you probably already know Wara and their very own energising and heart-stirring sound. The all-female London-based trio is a good-and-proper fun generator embracing the Afro-Latin and Afro-Cuban roots of its members and boosting them with London underground accents. On Saturday the 7th of...