We’re living in a world where K-pop gets daytime airplay on BBC Radio 1. Think about that for a second, a Korean pop song getting played by a national UK radio station where usually the English-language norm is only broken by the occasional Spanish lyric. That’s just mind-blowing. I’m referring...
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The London International Arts Festival (LIAF) is back in town with its fifth edition, focusing its attention on the South Asian and Carnatic music subjects and building on them through musical collaborations, interactions and synergies. The 6-day event will get underway at Kings Place, where accomplished and internationally-renowned master Indian...
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,...
The Russian-born electronic musician and all-around artist and experimentalist Dasha Rush is bringing her widely acclaimed audiovisual project Antarctic Takt to the UK for the first time. Premiered at Berlin Atonal festival back in 2014, Antarctic Takt is an audio/video performance created in collaboration with visual artist Stanislav Glaszov, that sends the...
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...
Born 1966, Ryoji Ikeda is an artist working across both visual and sonic media, concerned with sound in its raw states, its visual configuration, mathematical aesthetics, and human perception. Presented by Thirty Three Thirty Three, Barbican Centre, Selfridges, and The Japan Foundation, Ikeda will perform his new audio-visual work Test...
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IOSONOUNCANE is the solo project of Italian musician Jacopo Incani. His album DIE, released over two years ago, has been widely acclaimed by Italian critics and music fans alike, and after a successful tour in his home country, it will finally be performed in venues around the rest of Europe,...
![Preview: Punkt Festival @ Rich Mix [London, 11th February 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/punkt_ad_600x150_2017-335x84.jpg)
Shoreditch cultural hub Rich Mix is bringing Norwegian Punkt Festival to London for the very first time. The festival, known at home in Kristiansand as Punkt Festivalen, is a unique one, where live performances are remixed and reinterpreted at the same time in different spaces. An uniqueness that has captivated...
Words can’t do justice to what went down at the St. James the Great Church, a.k.a. Church of Sound, in Clapton on Sunday 23rd October. It was one of those concerts hard to forget, one of those experiences you need to tell everyone and show video and pictures of –...