There has always been unconditional love for Kleber Cavalcante Gomes. The Brazilian MC and singer-songwriter, better known as Criolo, who also has a past as educator, is one of our favourite artists, not only for his genuine song-writing talent and musicianship, but also for the commitment he has constantly shown...
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Here’s another bright example of the fact that Brazilian hip-hop is livelier and louder than ever. On 24th July, Emicida, one of the most popular and inspired names of South American music, will pay a visit to The Jazz Cafe in Camden for one of the highlights of the month....
There’s a new festival in town aiming to expose and support the often-grueling efforts of Latin American female artists, who despite their talent and dedication, have to face back-breaking challenges and hardly see their work acknowledged. Flawa (Festival of Latin American Women in the Arts) is a heartfelt 5-day-long tribute...
![Album Review: Bixiga 70 – Quebra Cabeça [Glitterbeat Records; October 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bixiga-quebra-335x335.jpg)
In times when the Afro-Brazilian bond is vilified and almost censured, an album like Bixiga 70’s Quebra Cabeça is more necessary than ever. The fifth release of the big band (the third for Glitterbeat Records) from São Paulo indeed proudly reaffirms the Atlantic connection; that historical, cultural and social link...
This is a show you wouldn’t want to miss! After five albums and eight years on the worldbeat scene, Bixiga 70 are still one of the most original bands around, and Quebra Cabeça, their latest fresh-off-the-press album released on Glitterbeat, is clear proof. The band from São Paulo hasn’t changed its...
Bixiga 70 (who are ready to take London by storm with a show at the Jazz Cafe tonight) have just released one of the best albums of the year for Glitterbeat Records. Titled Quebra Cabeça (‘puzzle’ in English), the work is brimming with Afro-Brazilian rhythms, instrumental far-out creativity and radical attitude. So, we couldn’t help...
A thunderstorm of palpitating jazz and punkish threats is about to hit the Archspace in East London. Since 2008, Metá Metá has been driving the underlying and caustic alternative music scene in São Paulo, from post-rock jazz to Afro-samba, with vents of punk. Get yourselves on alert, ’cause this show on...
Thank God for Brazil, that land, full of artists who believe in there being splendour in their differences, producing music that is the stuff of mythology. First came samba, then samba grew into bossa nova, samba cancao, tropicalia, samba torta, add a hip-hop flavour, and we start to get an...
![Album Review: Nomade Orquestra – EntreMundos [Far Out Recordings – 23rd June 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/a0299711160_10-335x335.jpg)
Nomade Orquestra unravel the nomadic spirit threading our bones together and turbulently take us to into previously undiscovered dimensions. With the musical depth of each song opening up new vistas, we are swung into their innermost sacred space. The band give no choice but to push reality aside and cosy...
We discovered them almost one year ago thanks to their debut album and it was love at first listen. That’s why, a few weeks after the release of their second work (Entremundos) and a few days before their second UK tour (with a stop-over at London’s Jazz Café on the...