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A few days before Başka Bahar / Another Spring came out, Umut Adan was speaking to us from Istanbul about a record that had already lived several lives before reaching the public. It had travelled through five years of work, across rooms in Istanbul, Turin and Brussels, through rehearsals, tours, production sessions and long stretches of selection, until the idea behind it finally held. What emerges now on Six Degrees Records is an album built as a collective, political project […]...
On Friday 27 February, friends, family and musicians who shared bands, long journeys and late rehearsals with guitarist and percussionist Pablo Domínguez come together at City Hope Church in Bermondsey. Pablo passed away in February 2025, aged just 38, after a period of serious illness, and his absence is still felt strongly in Cádiz, London and beyond. This is the room where he gave his last performance for Tuned In London; now it fills again with people who loved him, […]...
Over a career spanning nearly six decades, Ebo Taylor, who has died at home in Ghana aged 90, recorded an impressive discography of music spanning highlife, afrobeat and more. From classics such as “Love and Death” which has become something of a jazz standard for students of the genre, to deep cuts sought out by samplers and producers in search of a hook, here Rhythm Passport remembers Ebo Taylor through his recordings. A bandleader, rhythm guitarist and lyricist in a […]...
Thirty-one bands. Twenty-five countries. Three nights where Mongolian throat-singing, Congolese electro-punk and Occitan polyphonic percussion share the same city programme. Every March, Marseille becomes a compass point for global music, and Babel Music XP is the reason why. From Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st March 2026, Babel Music XP returns with its twin identity as festival and professional forum, anchored at La Friche la Belle de Mai and spread across Espace Julien, La Plateforme, Cité de la Musique, Alcazar and Le […]...
Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small town in Colombia’s Montes de María where the diatonic accordion became central to local dance music. His grandfather Andrés Landero listened to the gaita ensembles and drum groups of the region and began adapting their repertoire. He took their rhythms, their melodies and their song structures and rewrote them for accordion. The result became known as cumbia de acordeón, and […]...
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