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 good music in the British capital.
Get your agenda ready, click on the artworks & check out our live music picks!
YAMA WARASHI, ∵n∀v∩∴ & SKYLLA @ CAFE OTO (03/12)
KONGO DIA NTOTILA @ PIZZA EXPRESS LIVE (04/11)
MAMADOU DIABATÉ… @ THE JAZZ CAFE (04/12)
PAROV STELAR @ O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY (04/12)
THE COMET IS COMING @ O2 SHEPERDS BUSH (05/12)
FOCUS AFRICA 9TH ANNIVERSARY @ RICH MIX (06/12)
MAKKAM w/ ARTERIA FM & MOZÃO @ THE JAGO (07/12)
DUB PISTOLS w/ NATTY CAMPBELL @ THE JAZZ CAFE (13/12)
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MONO @ BARBICAN CENTRE (14/12)
MULATU ASTATKE @ THE JAZZ CAFE (17/12 & 18/12)
NEUE GRAFIK ENSEMBLE @ ROYAL ALBERT HALL (19/12)
FREEK @ RICH MIX (21/12)
Dub Pistols has just released their latest single “Love”, which is included in their new album, Frontline. The LP is the band’s 9th studio release and highlights their talent in blending various uptempo styles such as dub, reggae, dancehall, ska, and DnB, to create a unique sound. Frontline features a remarkable…
Artists: Chezidek , Dub Pistols , Seanie
London-based uptempo institution Dub Pistols brings back the summer vibes with the release of ‘Soundboy Killa’, featuring MC and DJ Natty Campbell and Freestylers. After recently commemorating the 25th anniversary, the collective put out the second single from the upcoming album Frontline. Set to be out March 10th on Cyclone…
Artists: Dub Pistols
The first appointment of 2023 with Arsenal of Sounds is getting closer and closer. We are two weeks away from an Afro-infused evening showcasing the sacred rhythmic fire of Matondology RIOT and the smooth and soulful sound of Seby Ntege and his Band. After having done the honours for Seby…
Artists: Kongo Dia Ntotila , Matondology Riot , Mulele Matondo , Mulele Matondo Afrika , Seby Ntege , Seby Ntege Band
For this episode of Rhythm Passport Presents, we tried to compress, squeeze and cram 12 months’ worth of notes, rhythms and sounds from all over the world in roughly 120 minutes. Of course, we had to leave our far too many quality tunes. Still, we tried hard and did our…
Artists: Anadol , Bad Bunny , Bandua , Biga*Ranx , Branko , Burna Boy , Che Sudaka , Dowdelin , El Khat , Ezra Collective , Fanfara Station , Gonora Sounds , Hagan , K.o.g. , Kaleema , Kobo Town , Kottarashky , L\'entourloop , La Fanfarria del Capitan , La Perla , Les Freres Jackfruit , Lova Lova , Maga Bo , Meral Polat Trio , Rasha Nahas , Residente , Rhabdomantic Orchestra , Sarathy Korwar , Sidi Wacho , Soothsayers , TOROZEBU , Yama Warashi
Check out “Nice Up”, the first single extracted from Dub Pistols‘ upcoming album ‘Frontline’ out in March 2023 More info: https://linktr.ee/dubpistols TweetSharePin0 Shares
Artists: Dub Pistols , Horseman
Boomtown: A living theatre that ignites imagination and inspires a better world through connection, creativity and celebration. This preview is a little delayed, however as this particular chapter of Boomtown Festival is unique in so many ways, it seemed worthwhile to wait a little longer, at least until everything had…
Artists: Afriqoui , Altern 8 , Arrested Development , Dawn Penn , Dele Sosimi , FourTet , Gentleman's Dub Club , Ibibio Sound Machine , Julian Marley , Koffee , Kool and the Gang , Moonchild Sanelly , Mungo's Hi Fi , The Skints
Download this exclusive FREE Rhythm Passport album TODAY! Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Every…
Artists: Aguanedo Nnewi , Atongo Zimba , Baeshi Bang , Etran de L'Air , Hackney Colliery Band , Haya Zaatry , Ip Koa Son , Juanita Euka , K.o.g , LNDFK , The Scorpios , Yama Warashi
In this show, we travel from Africa’s kora, desert blues from the Sahara desert, the beautiful strings from Cape Verde Islands, through jazz from gipsy influence and finish with a dub in a world music perspective. Music is the glue that connects humanity as ONE! (Aired on August 11 on…
Artists: Ballake Sissoko , Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra , Bombino , Cordas do sol , Juan Bau , Ludovico Einaudi , Mamadou Diabate , Mbongwana Star , Oum , Stereo Utopia , The Spy From the Cairo , Toumani Diabaté
Radio Mukambo serves a Swedish cumbia band mixing analogue sound with brass and Beastie Boys energy: Cumbiasound‘s debut EP Maquina is our album of the week. We announce Jam’in Jette on tour at FIRM with Daniel Dzidzonu (afrobeat), Azmari (ethiogrooves) coming to Brosella XXS. Furthermore we listen to new afrobeat…
Artists: Àbáse , Azmari , Cumbiasound , Daniel Dzidzonu , DJ Tudo , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Femi Koya , Gaspar Z'África , Krak In Dub , Lee Fry Music , MassaranDub , Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble , Mzee , Natty Campbell , Romperayo , Smile Davis , Tião Carvalho
Ten years of making radio and 500 podcasts, that’s what Mukambo is celebrating this week. So we have a special program talking you through the very vest albums of those ten years. Get ready for a trans-Atlantic trip going from Africa over Latin America to Europe, and a pan-African ride…
Artists: Batida , Dele Sosimi , Dizzy Mandjeku , Doña Onete , Ebo Taylor , Gaspar Z'África , Guts , Gyedu-Blay Ambolley , Jungle Fire , Konono N1 , London Afrobeat Collective , Michi Sarmiento , Mulatu Astatke , Newen Afrobeat , Oghene Kologbo , Raúl Monsalve , Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos , Rocky Marsiano , Seun Kuti , Son Palenque , The Bongo Hop
Within seconds of entering the room, the sense of anticipation was palpable. One felt sure that some exciting Congolese rhythms were certain to banish any rainy-day blues. The band made their way on to the stage, nonchalantly picked up their instruments and began to play their opening number, sung by…
Artists: Kanda Bongo Man , Kasai Masai , Nickens Nkosi
To bring the Tropics to Cornwall is as complicated as it sounds, but it’s also extremely gratifying. That’s why Tropical Pressure Festival has become a music lover’s dream (whether they are project workers, volunteers, musicians or festival-goers), and that’s how, every July since 2014, the idyllic Mount Pleasant Eco Park…
Artists: Anchorsong , Kongo Dia Ntotila , La-33 , Lindigo , Malphino , Miramundo , Penya , Rumbo Tumba , Samson Sounds , The Bongo Hop , The Scorpios
“360° is the title track and lead single from the new album by London based, Kongo-Jazz band, Kongo Dia Ntotila (Pussyfoot Records). ‘360°’ is a purely instrumental track that grooves a grungy, funked up sound of African London. Inspired by the burgeoning new jazz scene emerging from the U.K. capital, it’s a clear incarnation of…
Artists: Kongo Dia Ntotila
From the first jazz-solo drum rhythms of David Lessie that opened the show, to the cyclical afro-lead from John Kelly’s guitar, every beat of each song resonated throughout the grooving crowd, and certainly through band leader Mulele Matondo, who I’m sure jived to every single note of the show, constantly…
Artists: Kongo Dia Ntotila
We couldn’t miss the opportunity to toast the 20th anniversary of Dub Pistols, one of the most thrilling bands born-and-bred in the UK in the last decades. To celebrate in style, we have the pleasure to premiere the remix of “Crazy Diamond”, their new album’s title track, which will be released on…
Artists: Dub Pistols![Album Review: Diabel Cissokho -Tambacounda Express [Kafou Music, 1st July 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/a1310769216_10-620x620.jpg)
It’s not often I can say that reviewing an album made my day, but in the case of Senégalese multi-instrumentalist Diabel Cissokho’s latest release, Tambacounda Express, it certainly did! The album, which, as Diabel affirmed during a chat we had at Womad UK this Summer, takes its name from the…
Artists: Diabel Cissokho
The Best from Africa series at Rich Mix resumes for 2016 this week with a double bill sure to dispel any lingering January blues. With Sierra Leone hip hop storytelling accompanying the soukous of Congo, Kasai Masai joins Alim Kamara this Saturday in a night demonstrating the musical prowess emanating…
Artists: Alim Kamara , Kasai Masai
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