Check out ‘Fake Blood’ new single by Puerto Rican ensemble ÌFÉ extracted from their upcoming album 0000+0000, available from November 5th via Discos Ifá & Mais Um: https://grupoife.bandcamp.com “In a stunning live performance video, ÌFÉ returns with an explosive new track FAKE BLOOD – inspired in part by Adam Curtis’ HyperNormalization and...
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Check out this very ‘MIMA‘ version of ‘La Maquina Patinanaba’, a plena standard originally written by Puerto Rican musician Manuel Jiménez (Canario). Singer/songwriter MIMA covered the song back in 2014 reinterpreting it using a more contemporary register through bass, claps and synths. Find out more on her Bandcamp...
It goes without saying that we will miss Bandcamp Fridays… Today, till midnight (Pacific Time), is indeed the last appointment with one of our favourite initiatives meant to support and bring some well-deserved fee-free income to the pocketsof labels and musicians. So, to celebrate the 10th Bandcamp Friday of this...
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Princess Nokia is a perfect representation of contemporary hip-hop, and a wonderful fixture of feminist rap. Representing perhaps an anti0-movement because Princess Nokia brought back – or perhaps invented – emo rap, she’s a Puerto Rican American and she sings about not conforming to gender ideas. She takes her intersectional...
At times, we ask the Rhythm Passport family some cruel tasks. For example, to musically retrace their 2010s and pick only five albums among the hundreds (or thousands) they have listened, loved and/or felt particularly important considering the world music world. Click on the names below and you will meet...
To start the new year right, we’ve decided to tidy up our 2019 music listenings and recall the songs that have made us sing, dance, think, happy and love music even more… Enjoy the tunes that our stereos played in heavy rotation and a big thanks to 2019 for...
Every month, we bring you a monthly collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
As soon as you arrived at The O2 you started to feel as though you were in a world-class Latin American party; with the smell of the delicious traditional food and salsa music from Jesus Cutiño & Son de Cuba, Cali style salsa band Kalison Orquesta performing in the afternoon,...
There were very few albums released in 2017 that got us excited and emotional as much as Residente’s debut. The Puerto Rican rapper, former member of the referential duo Calle 13, is undoubtedly one of the most recognised voices in the Latin hip-hop scene. The millions of albums sold and...