![Album Review: Moh! Kouyaté – Loundo (Un Jour) [Foli Son; 2nd February 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/maxresdefault-335x335.jpg)
Loundo (Un Jour) is the coming-of-age, debut album from Guinean-born Moh! Kouyaté. A protégé of the Mandingo tradition, Kouyaté is establishing himself as ‘one to watch’ on the international world music scene. After a cursory glance at both his image and musical style, the spectre of Kasiah Jones looms large, which...
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Articles![Album Review: Aziza Brahim – Abbar el Hamada (Across el Hamada) [Glitterbeat]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/aziza-brahim-abbar-el-hamada_72dpi-335x335.jpg)
The new album by Barcelona-based singer Aziza Brahim from Western Sahara is a masterpiece in the expression of displacement felt by the thousands of refugees from her homeland, of which she is one. Produced with sparkling clarity by Chris Eckman (who also worked with Bassekou Kouyate and Tamikrest) Abbar el...
![Album Review: Sidestepper – Supernatural Love [Real World Records/ 5th February 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/643-1-335x335.jpg)
Harking back to the traditions of the dance bands of 1970’s Colombia, Haiti, Trinidad, Cuba and Africa, Sidestepper’s Supernatural Love represents a fresh folkloric direction for the progenitors of electro-cumbia. Each Sidestepper album has proposed a new sound. That sense of innovation and evolution continues with this upcoming release Supernatural...
