With so much good music being published and uploaded every month, we constantly find hard to keep up with all the releases. Luckily, “we get by with a little help from our friends”… We are more than thrilled to welcome and introduce you to Chamonix-based online radio, record label, DJs...
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We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to 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:
![Album Review: Rocky Dawuni – Beats of Zion [AQUARIAN Records / Six Degrees; March 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/rockydawunibeastsofzioncover-335x293.jpg)
Ghanaian artist and producer Rocky Dawuni is one of the world’s leading African artists, not only specialising in reggae music, but using his influence as a platform for activism. Last year, in 2018, he was named the UN Goodwill Ambassador of Africa. His seventh album titled Beats of Zion has...
Preview of the album: Only available until 02nd May 2019
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...
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to 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:
![Album Review: Fokn Bois – Afrobeats LOL [FOKN INC; February 2019]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/foknbois-cover-335x335.jpg)
Pidgin rap provocateurs Fokn Bois are back with seven-track EP Afrobeats LOL, which satirises the globalised afrobeats genre, albeit using its riddims and dances. With features by Mr Eazi and Sister Deborah, plus elder of highlife Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Afrobeats LOL has all the catchy swag of the genre it parodies...
Afro-groovers of the world rejoice! After years of waiting spent dancing to their exhilarating singles, the afro-fusionists par excellence, K.O.G. & the Zongo Brigade, are finally ready to get your feet moving to the sound of their debut album. Wahala Wahala is indeed fresh out of the Heavenly Sweetness’ oven,...
