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Midori Takada and Lafawndah blur the lines between live music performance and devotional ritualistic theatre. The two experimental artists from Japan and London have come together to showcase Ceremonial Blue, a stage production which is built around their 2018 EP Le Renard Bleu. As Takada plays out with handbells, antique...
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...
![Preview: Ryoji Ikeda @ Barbican Centre [London; Sunday 30th September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ryoki-ikeda-335x188.jpg)
Sound artist Ryoji Ikeda returns to the Barbican Centre on Sunday 30th September to present a whole new show divided into two sections. Music for Percussion sees Ikeda, alongside Swiss collective Eklekto, experimenting with handclaps, crotales, cymbals and triangles, playing them in unconventional ways to create the impression of electronic music...
The stage at the Barbican has belonged to many legendary musicians, and it is not a rarity to attend more than one incredible concert in the span of a few days. Nevertheless, even for such a high-esteemed venue, it is a once-in-a-lifetime event to host not one but two members...
After four joint albums together over the span of a decade, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto thought they had nothing left to say. If it had not been for director Iñárritu, who brought them back together in 2015 to make them work on the score of his film The Revenant,...
About 20km outside of the hectic, fast-paced city of Milan, there is a magnificent rural palace with a historic garden and a natural labyrinth, built by a Milanese noble family in around the 18th century. A place where time is suspended, once a year Villa Arconati becomes the beating heart...
![Album Review: Park Jiha – Communion [Tak:til; March 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/park-jiha-communion-335x335.jpg)
Park Jiha‘s debut solo album, Communion, builds iconic soundscapes by merging traditional Korean instruments (piri, saenghwang and yanggeum) and percussion, with instruments from a western jazz background (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and vibraphone). The effect brings new ideas which build sonic stories and new ways of appreciating music. Listening to...
Italy’s number one music festival returns this week for its 17th edition — with the most incredible line-up they have ever been able to put together. The roster includes the most acclaimed upcoming artists of the moment, such as Warp Records signee Lorenzo Senni, this year’s breakthrough artist Lanark Artefax,...
When talking about some of the best music projects in the contemporary scene, one cannot fail to mention GoGo Penguin, the Manchester-based trio that brings jazz and electronica together in highly rhythmical, climatic compositions and truly compelling live shows. The band formed in Manchester in 2012 and has published three...
