![Event Review: Boiler Room Festival @ Peckham [London; Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th October 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/br-festival_jazz_ryan-buchanan_038-335x223.jpg)
Filming performances to be broadcast to viewers at home who can still feel somewhat part of the party is not novel. Boiler Room, the flagship online platform for underground acts to increase their exposure, tapped into a pre-existing appetite amongst the try-before-you-buy internet generation but that doesn’t negate the impact...
Tag Archives: Electronica
![Album Review: Mateo Kingman – Astro [AYA Records; July 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/kingman-astro-cover-335x335.jpg)
‘Negative capability’ was a concept English Romantic poet John Keats used to describe a writer’s capacity to abandon certainty and – in pursuit of an artistic vision – venture off into the unknown. Taking a journey to Ixtlan rather than returning to Ithaka is what Mateo Kingman’s Astro is all...
If you are looking for refuge as we get close to winter, then jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz has the perfect night to take cover. On 16th November, he will be joined by London jazz outfit Maisha, LA jazz vocalist Dwight Trible and London singer and MOBO award winner Zara McFarlane for...
This year at the EFG London Jazz Festival two institutions of jazz are meeting for one special show. The legendary back catalogue of Blue Note Records, one of the most important labels in jazz history will be reimagined by a collection of artists from the orbit of modern jazz community,...
On Friday 8th November, Southbank Centre dedicates a night to Ólafur Arnalds and his art. The Icelandic composer and pianist will take over the London riverside cultural hub and its venues to give life to OPIA, a programme of performances and DJ-sets featuring exciting names in the electronica, contemporary, classic,...
View University of Tropical Sound bio here In anticipation of his set at The Post Bar‘s reggaeton party on Saturday 16th November (Perreo al Correo), when he will share the DJ-decks with Ivicore and Pedrolito, we’d like to introduce you to Tropical and Latin bass DJ, producer and Dean of University...
Sudan Archives is perhaps one of the most powerful female figures in the contemporary African music scene. Not just singing, but playing violin, composing and producing her own tracks, Sudan Archives really carves her own musical path; one that fuses irresistibly groovy R&B riffs and beats, played out on her...
Go Dugong has been around the Italian music scene for almost a decade, exploring different styles and growing artistically, but for some reason, his productions never hit the spotlight. He was one of the first artists in Italy to experiment with global sounds, mixing hip hop and electronic music with...
![Album Review: Mungo’s Hi-Fi X Eva Lazarus – More Fyah [Scotch Bonnet Records; July 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/mungo-more-fyah-335x335.jpg)
Mungo’s Hi-Fi have been very busy this decade. Formed in 2000 by a group of sound system enthusiasts from Glasgow, they released seven albums between 2010 and 2016, with a momentum that has yet to run out of steam. For their latest project (More Fyah, released on 17th July through...
Gallery: Ariano Folk Festival 2019 (Ariano Irpino, Italy; Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th August 2019)
There are small musical miracles around if we are open to going beyond the usual festival circuit. One of them happens every August (since 1996) in Southern Italy. For four days and nights, Ariano Folk Festival enlightens the Campanian town of Ariano Irpino and brings music from all over the world...
