![Album Review: The Last Poets – Understanding What Dub Is [Studio Rockers; March 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/lastpoetsunderstanddubcover-335x335.jpg)
The Last Poets need no introduction, yet I find myself being reintroduced to them through their album Understanding What Dub Is (released by Studio Rockers). With their origins in Harlem in the late 1960s and the early hip-hop community, their spoken-word poetry, merged with political activism, is a sound that has...
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Antibalas bring the energy of afrobeat and jazz, and the fire of funk and dub, modelled from Fela Kuti’s band, Africa 70. The afrobeat orchestra are celebrating their twentieth year as a band on Daptone Records at London’s Jazz Cafe. Although well versed in their original songs, which blend all...
View Nickodemus bio here Spring Thing by Nickodemus “Here’s a mix reflecting the diverse international dance music coming out of the Wonderwheel Recordings label as well as songs from similar artists I’ve been enjoying lately. The lead track is off my new album A Long Engagement released on May 4th. It’s...
![Album Review: Nickodemus – A Long Engagement [Wonderwheel Recordings; 4th May 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nickodemus-a-long-engagement-335x335.jpg)
Can you think of a more cosmopolitan, complicated, international, culturally mixed place than New York City? A once-Dutch colony that through the centuries has welcomed migrants from all over the world to become one of the most culturally varied, exciting, fervent cities in the world. From Little Italy to Chinatown,...
![Album Review: Antibalas – Where The Gods Are In Peace [Daptone Records; September 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/antibalas-335x335.jpg)
Among tall skyscrapers, basketball courts, and yellow cabs rushing through the streets of the Big Apple, there is a twelve-piece band that holds high the banner of afrobeat well outside the borders of West Africa. They are Antibalas (Spanish for bulletproof); the horn-driven, afrobeat supergroup from Brooklyn, NY, founded by...
There’s no escape from the mighty beat of the dhol. That’s why Red Baraat‘s gig at Rich Mix on the 7th May will blow you and the Shoreditch venue away. The 8-piece band from Brooklyn, with roots firmly planted in the North Indian tradition and a brass section loud enough...
Gogol Bordello’s “mad scientist psychedelic laboratory” is open for business as usual: Testing, experimenting and playing around with Gypsy punk, Eastern European sounds and notes since 1999. Almost twenty years after their debut, the band from New York City is ready to release its tenth album titled Seekers and Finders...
![Preview: De La Soul @ Roundhouse [London, Friday 10th March 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/62d1a6c543617e14ee1320204ff62d5a-335x188.jpeg)
After a much awaited comeback in August 2016 with the release of their first album in 12 years, and the Anonymous Nobody, legendary American hip hop trio De La Soul are now on a tour that will touch down in London on Friday 10th March, at the similarly legendary venue...
A reception to Fronteras, a performance by Philippe Baden Powell and Cecilia Zabala we covered at the Americas Society & Council of the Americas in New York, was held right after the show, in an adjacent room. It was a room with large windows, and two tables purposed for consumption: one...
![Review: Cecilia Zabala & Philippe Baden Powell – Fronteras @ Americas Society & Council of the Americas (New York, U.S. – 26th January 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/zabala_02-2-335x223.jpg)
Hidden away, there is an old Beaux-Arts mansion at 680 Park Ave in New York City wherein members and non-members congregate for various cultural activities. To attend, one first walks through the old mansion’s black gates, into a lobby that could be an art gallery, surrounded by very white walls....
