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This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
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Innov Gnawa are a New York-based group of Moroccan gnawa musicians. Lila, their upcoming album out on Daptone Records on April 30, is a “traditional ceremony in which the group dedicates an evening of healing through music. This all-night rhythm fest is a spiritual ritual that cleanses the body,...
New York-based Malagasy singer/songwriter Niu Raza recently released a “dance visual” for her single ‘Reko’ part of her latest album Mm-hmm. The work, shot by Hobiana Rabiazamaholy and choreographed Alisson Myrea, is an “ode to Malagasy women’s strength, beauty and talent“.
Check out a live rendition of ‘Cumbia del Pichamán’ by Bogotà-based experimental and psychedelic cumbia band Meridian Brothers. The song, a very Meridian Brothers’s version of Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man”, is extracted from the band’s latest album Cumbia Siglo XXI and released by Bongo Joe Records: https://meridianbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/cumbia-siglo-xxi...
Album Reviews
![Album Review: Various Artists – La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 [Bongo Joe Records; March 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/la-ola-interior-cover-335x256.jpeg)
Welcome to a visionary inner self odyssey, spanning the golden age of Spanish electronic music. La Ola Interior groups two generations of artists; some young such as: Miguel A. Ruiz, Victor Nubla, or Camino al Desván, and an older one gathering names such as Finis Africae, Suso Saiz and Javier...
![Album Review: University Challenged – Oh Temple! [Hive Mind Records; January 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/university-challnged-oh-temple-cover-335x256.jpeg)
An ambient and psych music to be watched! The self-made films that go along with the music create an eccentric and almost political discourse. Influenced by a melange of musical genres and styles, from kosmische musik, electronic and experimentation to indie, pastoral guitar soli, and krautrock, University Challenged have walked...
![Album Review: Farhot – Kabul Fire Vol.2 [Kabul Fire Records; January 2021]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/kabul-fire-vol2-cover-335x256.jpeg)
Finding one’s place within a diaspora away from your motherland can be an integral part of self-discovery. This is certainly true of Hamburg-based producer Farhot, who has now followed-up his eight-year-old debut with Kabul Fire Vol. 2 (released via his own label Kabul Fire Records) which explores this part of...
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This is an album that has landed at a time we may most appreciate it. Elevation is at the heart of this record. It is an LP inspired by afrobeat and spiritual jazz with strong elements of Detroit groove pulsing through the soundtrack. Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella’s message is...
New Bandcamp Friday and new shopping tips… As we often do on the first Friday of each month, when Bandcamp lifts its fees redistributing all sales profits to artists and their labels, also today we give you some suggestions on how to spend your money on music effectively supporting musicians....
We can’t welcome enough every opportunity we are presented to reach and write about Urban Village. Not only because we never made it a secret that we are fans of the music of the Soweto-based quartet, but also because their cultural relevance and topical drive- when it comes to narrating...
On the 12th of March, On the Corner Records released an album which has already “booked” its place in our ‘end of the year’ list. Vexillology, by Moroccan musician, producer, sound archiver, field recording and sound artist Guedra Guedra, goes far beyond the phonographic boundaries. The debut LP of the...
It’s not been easy, Kaleema tells us, to make herself a nurturing musical home. Two inner worlds kept colliding. The seemingly disparate areas of her creative life, classical study and electronic production, kept crashing against each other. But Kaleema persevered through her orchestral upbringing. She found her way to the...
We are glad about the fact that the music lovers at Bandcamp haven’t lost their good habits and also in 2021, they will keep on supporting musicians and labels through their Bandcamp Fridays. As it happened on the first Friday of each month throughout 2020, also this year Bandcamp will...