![Album Review: The Comet Is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery [Impulse! Records; March 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cometzzz-335x335.jpg)
The Comet Is Coming is a trio of jazz/psychedelic enthusiasts, one of whom is the increasingly recognised Shabaka Hutchings, who already leads two other groups (Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors). This group claim “to reconnect with the energy of the Lifeforce in the hope of manifesting higher realities...
Tag Archives: Alt-Jazz
In 2016, Nerija, an all-female group of young London based jazz musicians released a self-titled EP. After three years of sporadic gigs, solo projects (more to be mentioned on these later) and some refining, Nerija are hosting a night celebrating a rerelease of their original EP by Domino Records. But...
There’s not much need to say how influential a project like Jazzmatazz has been for both jazz and hip-hop. What is maybe less in the public eye is how much Jazzmatazz is still shaping the sound of new jazz and hip-hop acts. Last year, the seminal first album of the...
Despite its recent vicissitudes, Total Refreshment Centre is loudly and proudly turning seven this March. Seven years spent discovering, spreading and staging some of the finest music (jazz in particular) from all over the world. Since 2012, the former Hackney Social Club has become a meeting point for the London...
It’s International Women’s Day and here at Rhythm Passport HQ we’re celebrating female power with a playlist of 20 of our favourite female world and jazz artists. Let these musicians take you through the sound of femininity in its ever-changing forms, from the wild sassiness of Sudan Archives to the...
We are lucky enough to have been in touch with musicians who love their job and can freely play what they like without constrictions or limitations imposed by the industry, labels, managers, agents, and so on and so forth… One of the latest outcomes of this blessing is Do Not...
There’s a new live music jam in (London) town, but with a twist. Parasang is a weekly series happening at Redon in Bethnal Green, which mixes synth beats and electronic sound manipulation with live instrumentation. Each week, the event hosts a fresh new group of musicians from a different discipline....
We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to bring you a monthly 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:
Here at Rhythm Passport we are always looking for new ways to support and spread the word about quality and meaningful music and give you chance to listen to it. So, we are more than excited to invite you to the first episode of Meet & Greet with the Album,...
When you think you have entirely unravelled and got the full picture of Hejira and their music, here they are to throw you off guard with their brand-new work. Thread of Gold, their recently released second album on Lima Limo Records, is indeed incisive and gentle, at the same time...
