![Album Review: Nubiyan Twist – Siren Song [Wormfood Records, 27th May 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/a0160417941_10-335x329.jpg)
Following their highly celebrated debut album in 2015, the eclectic 12-piece band from Leeds, Nubiyan Twist, is back with their new EP, Siren Song. And what an apt name for this second album, which allures and entices its listeners in many unexpected ways, from its dance-inducing funk groves and intoxicating...
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![Album Review: Luísa Maita – Fio Da Memória [Cumbancha, September 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fiodamemoriacover__press_resolution-335x302.jpg)
“Jump above the sky, inside your eyes”. This is Luísa Maita’s enticing invitation as she provocatively chants the last words of her second album titled Fio Da Memória and released by Cumbancha. Maíta wants us to know that this is not a record for conformists willing to digest her songs at face value....
Brazilian Funk legends Banda Black Rio return to London for a one off gig at Camden’s Jazz Café on Thursday 4th of August. Originally formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1976 they went on to become one of the most important bands in Brazilian music history, with legendary albums Maria...
Paying tribute to one of the all time kings of music is no easy feat, however there are few as up the job as afro jazz pioneer Bukky Leo & Black Egypt, and few venues as apt as The Jazz Cafe. Approaching Fela’s eclectic back catalogue with their unique acid...
South African performance art ensemble, The Brother Moves On, bring their progressive afro-rock show to London Jazz Café. If Sun Ra was an indie kid born in a post-apartheid Johannesburg suburb, he would be in The Brother Moves On. These guys are conceptual artists whose line up and shows are...
One of the most exciting names on the UK music scene is also one of its most indefinable and difficult to pigeonhole. That’s because the musical ‘dirty’ dozen Nubiyan Twist (in honour of its front woman) dislikes definitions, labels or borders. The band, originally from Leeds, London, Oxford and Dublin...
It really is something special to see a live performance by ‘O Bruxo’ (the sorcerer). The eminent Brazilian musician, producer, arranger and composer Hermeto Pascoal was once described by Miles Davis, no less, as ‘the most impressive musician in the world.’ His show at London’s Barbican Centre was hugely anticipated...
“If you had to send a musical representative to another planet, Hermeto Pascoal would be the ideal person”, said one of his band members in a documentary of the legendary Brazilian musician. Hermeto, a brilliant composer, instrumentalist and bandleader will conjure up an eccentric and unique musical experience in which...
![Album Review: Nduduzo Makhathini – Listening to The Ground [Gundu Entertainment, 25th June 2015]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/8688c3704526559aa74c168452c175e6cb746e4e-335x335.jpeg)
Listening to The Ground in its entirety sounds like a child of American hard bop. The songs speak a South African native’s hard bop: a mix of indigenous gospel, blues, piano and rhythm. Nduduzo Makhatini grew up in a small town in South Africa, uMgungungdlovo, once the capital of a...
Welcomed by a packed and doting Electric Brixton, The Hot 8 Brass Band met expectations: larger than life, feel-good and undoubtedly, infectiously groovy. Before the brassy boy entered, the muso Brixton crowd were well warmed with the reggae delights of the Ragga Twins. From their straight-up Jamaican vibes, to their...