The first Rhythm Passport Presents of the year is finally out and to start 2023 in style, we seized the opportunity, space and time given us by RTM.FM to do a quick review of 2022 through some of the most interesting albums released in its 365 days We travelled back...
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Malian musical royalty Oumou Sangaré returns to London to play Grace Jones’ Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre, in a show postponed by the pandemic. In the interim Oumou has recorded and released a new album Timbuktu (check out our review), arguably better than the album that would have made up...
15/06/2022 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Oumou Sangaré | Meltdown festival Southbank Centre, London
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Oumou Sangaré is back on the World Circuit and we are here for it. After a hiatus from the British label during which she recorded Mogoya and Acoustic on the French label Nø Førmat! Mali’s Oumou Sangaré returns with Timbuktu, a luminous collection of eleven songs recorded between Bamako and...
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Rhythm Passport holders… are you ready for another round the world journey in sound? The Rhythm Passport Presents aircraft is taxiing on the tarmac and all set to take off from the RTM.FM studio for our monthly two-hour flight exploring and sharing new tunes from all over the world. So,...
Enjoy “Sarama”, the brand-new single by “the Songbird of Wassoulou”, Oumou Sangarè. The widely-revered Malian singer/songwriter has just shared the first song from her upcoming album Timbuktu, out in April 2022, which marks her return to World Circuit Records. Timbuktu is arguably one of the most intense and heartfelt works produced by...
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Acoustic is a rootsy reimagining of Malian superstar Oumou Sangaré’s 2017 album Mogoya, but where Mogoya used a palette of beats and synths, Acoustic says more with less. Opening with ‘Kamelemba’, a song of counsel warning women away from sweet talkers and playboys, Oumou’s majestic voice converses with the jittery...
