“El Hal” is the feeling that comes when playing music, forgetting where you are. The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove. A title that says it all about the third album from the London/Moroccan collective Electric Jalaba around Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo...
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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...
Download this exclusive FREE Rhythm Passport album TODAY! Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List: 1. Dowdelin feat. Pat Kalla...
Have a ball to the new Lisbon sound! On 6th September, the Jazz Café will move to the shores of the river Tejo and the Atlantic Ocean to pay tribute to the most exciting label born and bred in the Portuguese capital, Principe Discos. To do so, they have invited...
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List: 1. Lakou Mizik + 79rs Gang feat. Régine Chassagne, Win...
Here’s a brand new episode of our Rhythm Passport On Air podcast in collaboration with SOAS Radio. This month, we reached Pedro Coquenão, also known as Batida, by phone in Lisbon, and we had an intense and interesting chat about several topics. From his recent participation in Africa Express: The...
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:
Love Carnival’s events have had us dancing to Latin music in every scent and aroma, but for the October episode of the grooviest music series in London, the coordinates on the Movimientos crew’s musical GPS will bring us to Uganda and Angola (via Portugal). On 12th October, Peckham and CLF...
We first met Lua Preta, the Polish/Angolan duo blending together electronica, kuduro and afrohouse, only a few months ago, when we featured their hit “Quero Mais” (Basy Tropikalne) in our monthly compilation. <a href=”http://basytropikalne.bandcamp.com/album/quero-mais-somnilokwie”>Quero Mais/Somnilokwie by Lua Preta</a> Now, the Luanda-based project formed by Mentalcut & Supa Gia G is back...
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Is Throes + The Shine’s new release for Discotexas actually a wanga, as proposed by the album’s title? A wanga is a spell in kimbundo language. One would imagine that an album that is a wanga would have to obsess the listener to the point where both the listener’s conscious...