![Album Review: Elza Soares – The Woman At The End Of The World [Mais Um Discos, 3rd June 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/brazil-335x335.jpg)
The Woman At The End Of The World is Brazilian singing legend Elza Soares’ most recent release, a socially engaged album that exists to make us conscious of Brazil’s underbelly and unsettle our individual interiors through experimental instrumentation. It might just be the use of “end of the world” but...
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![Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate – Monistic Theory [Cumbancha, 13th May 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/a1477222035_10-335x335.jpg)
Joe Driscoll is a rapper originating from Syracuse, New York. He is well versed in a number of instruments and produces songs that are a blend of funk, folk and hip-hop. Sekou Kouyate is a master kora player from Guinea who plays Mandingue music, the traditional music of ethnically Mandingue Africans....
![Album Review: La Mambanegra – La Galeria [Afropicks, 21st January 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/12548885_728731533924299_3410603655503218173_n-335x335.jpg)
La Mambanegra, the excellent Colombian dance orchestra is on a mission to, “bring a new concept of salsa and Latin music to the world.” Colombia is the birthplace of the now infamous cumbia that made its way up the Magdalena River to receive an almost mythical status as a musical...
![Album Review: Konono No.1 meets Batida [Crammed Discs, March 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cram261_cover_lores-335x335.jpg)
The group Konono No.1 and Angola-born, Lisbon-raised, artist Batida, have teamed up and released Konono No.1 meets Batida, an album that is both thought-provoking and also an enjoyable listen. The songs are engaging medleys of electronic instrumentation, along with sounds such as the thumb piano, that we assume that the Congolese listeners would already...
![Album Review: BélO – Dizan [BelO Music, 15th April 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/5705ad6d0eb62tz_portfolio_1459989869-77_l-335x335.jpg)
In 1986, when Haitians overthrew dictator Jean Claude Duvalier and the culturally conservative authoritarian regime that he had put into place, the end of the dictatorship brought with it a freer aesthetic in Haitian music – an aesthetic that is often left unrecorded because the country’s economy does not support...
