There was something extra jubilant and euphoric about the Tallinn Music Week that managed to take place, against all odds, in the latter part of August. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, Estonia invited delegates and music lovers from the world over to flee any which way they could, to Tallinn Medieval Old...
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We are excited to host a new monthly section on Rhythm Passport curated by the nice people, travellers at heart and music lovers at Hit The Road Music Studio. In 2018, they hit the road from Poland to Morocco on their “magic bus”, a fully equipped caravan with professional studio recording...
We are excited to host a new monthly section on Rhythm Passport curated by the nice people, travellers at heart and music lovers at Hit The Road Music Studio. In 2018, they hit the road from Poland to Morocco on their “magic bus”, a fully equipped caravan with professional studio recording...
A (post) Christmas party like no other! On Sunday 29th December, head for Hootananny, and you’ll find out how to celebrate Christmas in pure with some pure upbeat exuberance… Dancing, having fun and partying the last Sunday of the year away, together with the wildest and grooviest band in town, Mama...
Globally renowned artists, Emir Kusturica with The No Smoking Orchestra, and Goran Bregovic with The Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, will be offering fans a unique performance that sees them sharing a stage during the Balkans Music Festival on 5th November 2019 at Eventim Apollo, London. As if this wasn’t enough...
The first reason to go and see DakhaBrakha on 26th July is that, of all the many UK gigs I went to in 2018, their show was by far the most memorable, and my personal favourite. Their concert at Southbank Centre in October last year swung between vivid peaks and...
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...
DakhaBrakha means ‘give/take’ in the old Ukrainian language. And it’s true, we see a real ‘give and take’ with the band’s influences – taking Ukrainian folk music and putting their own unique and theatrical spin on it. Often accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, their music...
Ice-cold breezes and dark evenings are commonplace for Londoners in the last few weeks of November. On the evening of the 29th, a long queue gathered outside the Oval Space doors, all wearing a respectable range of woolly coats and shaggy caps, warm voices resonating in disparate languages. First come...
They can be minimal and loud, traditional and visionary, polyphonic and discordant, everything and nothing or better… anything and everything and they can afford to be all this because of their talent and creativity. They are DakhaBrakha, meaning “give and take”, and this November, will bring their very own musical...