Enjoy a brand-new lockdown session by London Afrobeat Collective! For their second “home” video, the 9-piece ensemble hosted 4 special guests…Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, Barcelona-based Josep Blanes at the trombone, Ben Plocki and his bass sax, and trumpet player Sam Warner. ‘Tokomona’ (in its studio version) is...
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Enjoy ‘Curfew’. the new single and video extracted from M’berra, the collaborative album by Italian DJ, producer, Hyperjazz Records founder and radio host Khalab and M’berra Ensemble, a collective of Malian musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in southeast Mauritania. The album, which was recorded in the Mauritanian desert...
Our Daily Discovery section is usually meant for sharing new music and video clips with you. While this morning, we would like to “use” it in another way, to say goodbye to a good friend and supporter of Rhythm Passport as well as imaginative musician (from Trans-Global Underground to...
Mancunian ambient-jazz trio GoGo Penguin recently collaborated with Japanese experimental musician and producer Cornelius to release a new version of their single ‘Kora’. The track, which is part of the band’s new LP GGP/RMX (Blue Note Records), is one of the 11 remixes reimagining their 2020’s album GoGo Penguin. ...
Check out the new collaborative single by the late afrobeat legend Tony Allen and London-based rapper Lava La Rue extracted from the Nigerian drummer’s posthumous album There Is No End out now on Blue Note Records: https://tonyallen.lnk.to/ThereIsNoEnd “I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends.” The wisdom of...
New release on Batov Records for Belgian ethio-jazz and afro-funk band Kolonel Djafaar. “Formed in 2016, the band earned their stripes whipping crowds into a frenzy with a big band brass, Ethio-jazz meets Afrobeat sound, influenced by Mulatu Astatke, Budos Band, and Fela Kuti”. Check out ‘Recording...
‘Mountains of Madness’ is the latest video by Brighton-based instrumental hip-hop producer DJ Format. The tune is part of his 7th album The Devil’s Workshop, which goes far and beyond the hip-hop borders… In DJ Format’s words, “I’ve travelled half way around the world in search of old...
