To start the new year right, we’ve decided to tidy up our 2019 music listenings and recall the songs that have made us sing, dance, think, happy and love music even more… Enjoy the tunes that our stereos played in heavy rotation and a big thanks to 2019 for...
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![Preview: Doin’ Our Own Thing ¦ Brazil÷Africa Special! @ The Post Bar [London; Saturday 12th October 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/doinourownthing-thepost-335x175.jpg)
As London venues are shut down, Doin’ Our Own Thing keeps searching for the perfect space to run their night of African and Brazillian grooves. Doin’ Our Own Thing is an organisation that looks to connect a range of diverse people through music. Specialising in nights that focus on music...
If you have attended any of the previous Africa Express shows, you know they never disappoint your thirst for music. For hours and hours, they stun you with a deluge of quality acts and unexpected collaborations, not only featuring the exceptional artistry of the musicians involved but also their welcoming...
View Panda Palm bio here The Manchester-based duo Panda Palm takes you on an eclectic psychedelic and funky journey through different continents, times and atmospheres. Informed by the world music nights their collective Me Gusta has been putting on for the past two years and the new Me Gusta sister night...
Every September, Joyful Noise reacquaints us with an excellent musical celebration, featuring all-encompassing line-ups, and, of course we were looking forward to the 2017 edition of their London African Music Festival. Even so, we weren’t prepared for such a planned spectacle; 14 events scattered across 13 days and six London...
12 hours of enriching music, engaging dances and diverse traditions. Next Sunday, from noon to midnight, Open the Gate and Rich Mix will give life to a music marathon hosting musicians coming from Japan to Trinidad, India to Brazil and playing all sorts of styles from reggae to enka, hip-hop...
“When you decide what you play you also decide what kind of life you lead.” Hélène Labarrière N’Diale is one of the most convincing collaborations between European and African musicians in recent years. In this instance Breton and Malian players have created a new music that resonates strongly with...
![Album Review: Bitori – Legend of Funana [Analog Africa – 22nd July 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/233512-335x330.jpg)
In 1998, Victor Tavares, known as Bitori, released an album of what is considered to be the very best Funana music to date, Bitori Nha Bibinha. Funana is a form of Cape Verdian music which was stigmatised as inferior by colonial society, despite being borne from it. Bitori spent an...
Seven years and not a single itch…we still unconditionally love Open the Gate and we will surely join them for their Festival on the 5th of June at Rich Mix. The 7th Anniversary of the cultural organisation will be a full-day celebration of what they do best: organise events and...