![Album Review: Manzanita y su Conjunto – Trujillo, Perú 1971 – 1974 [Analog Africa; July 2021]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/manzanita-y-su-conjunto-trujillo-335x335.jpeg)
Savour, swing, rhythm and joy distinguish the magic guitar of Manzanita, spanning around the golden age of Peruvian Cumbia. Trujillo, Perú 1971 – 1974 comprises the personal style developed by the self-taught guitarist Berardo Hernández (1943-2007). Along with his Conjunto: Antonio Medina (bongos), Héctor Mattos (congas), Ricardo Valles (timbales), Enrique Ibérico...
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![Album Review: Various Artists – La Ola Interior: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 [Bongo Joe Records; March 2021]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/la-ola-interior-cover-335x335.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]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/university-challnged-oh-temple-cover-335x335.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: Tamikrest – Kidal [Glitterbeat Records, 17th March 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/a2344764365_10-335x335.jpg)
For Glitterbeat Records, Tamikrest’s Kidal represents the perfect balance between the rock and meditative elements. The importance given to the message in the Tamashek language expresses the concerns of a marginalised people. The Tuareg people have a long history of hardship, oppression and insane control of political, economic and religious...
![Album Review: La Mambanegra – El Callegüeso Y Su Mala Maña [Movimientos Records, 3rd March 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a3714027671_16-335x335.jpg)
With his characteristic hat and sunglasses comes El Callegüeso (Jacobo Vélez) and his ‘Colombian Break Salsa’. This new release further advances La Mambanegra’s style, featuring a diverse range of artists, along with Colombian orchestral support. A mixture of elements (Latin jazz, rap, bomba style, choruses, solos, tumbaos and ballad) combine...
If you are mad about rumba and mambo, come bump and grind your way into the Barbican to be moved by the grooves of son and guaracha, and to sing bolero. Roberto Fonseca (pianist, band leader, and very much part of a younger generation of new Latin jazz musicians) is...
![Album review: BaBa ZuLa – XX [Glitterbeat Records, 27th January 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/a3197917423_16-335x335.jpg)
What could possibly be better for a psychedelic cult band than a psychedelic cover. Colours and shapes are combined, forming a gateway to a unique, one-off experience. In the best tradition of its ritual-like performances (belly dancers, elaborate costumes, poetry, theatre, and live drawing), the cover for BaBa ZuLa’ XX...
![Album Review: Gilles Peterson: Havana Cultura Anthology [Brownswood Recordings, 2nd December 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/a2290789108_10-335x335.jpg)
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Album Review: Gilles Peterson: Havana Cultura Anthology [Brownswood Recordings, 2nd December 2016]
This is the ‘anthology’ of modern Cuban music that embodies the diversity of a new generation of artists beyond the Buena Vista Social Club legacy. This is also the ‘anthology’ that embraces a good number of Afro-Caribbean rhythms – son, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, Latin jazz, among many others – linked...
Owner of a flexible technique and an adaptable sound to different genres and styles, the Cuban trumpeter, Yelfris Valdés, will feature the best tradition of the American Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard at The Jazz Café on Saturday. Fusion, hard-bop, post-bop, and soul jazz, among other styles, will be on the...
![Album Review: Transglobal Underground – Digging the Underground, The Nation Years, Vol. 1 [Nation Records, 10th June 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/artworks-000166799983-tc09ms-t500x500-335x335.jpg)
This is music of exceptional variety and coherence in its genre, where it’s possible to listen the most diverse instruments and voices mixed with electronic music. These pieces were born into a groove explosion in London, where mixing sounds of the city with house, hip-hop, dub, and influences from Africa,...
