At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
Tag Archives: Afro-Cuban
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
![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...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
It’s not every day that you can indulge yourself in the performance of a music giant. Luckily, at ¡Como No!, they care about our musical pleasure and on the 26th of February, they have the honour to bring to London no less than Eliades Ochoa. The Cuban “institution” and former member...
We never made it secret that Yelfris Valdes is one of our favourite Cuban Londoner musicians. But how can you avoid falling for one of the most talented trumpeters and gifted composers coming from the Caribbean island? On the 6th of February, the Havana-born artist will have the privilege of...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
![Album Review: Yelfris Valdés – For the Ones… [Música Macondo Records; October 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/yelfris-valdes-for-the-ones-cover-335x332.jpg)
In the world of music, there is one rags-to-riches story yet to be matched – the most universal rhythmic pattern, today associated with Latin American music, that went by the name of son clave in mid-19th century Cuba, al-thaqil al-awwal in 13th-century Persia, and Konkonkolo in 600 BCE in West-Africa....
There’s no way you can start 2020 in a jazzier way than attending this gig. Cubafrobeat is indeed one of the niftiest and most upbeat projects of the decade just ended, and it will go on scene, on the shining Ronnie Scott’s stage on the 12th of January. In June...
At times, we ask the Rhythm Passport family some cruel tasks. For example, to musically retrace their 2010s and pick only five albums among the hundreds (or thousands) they have listened, loved and/or felt particularly important considering the world music world. Click on the names below and you will meet...