The most tropical weekend of the year is upon us! So, if you haven’t already, pack your tent, sunscreen and fun appetite, and head for Mount Pleasant Ecological Park. From Friday 13th to Sunday 15th July, Tropical Pressure festival will drop its cargo of Latin, Caribbean, West, East and Central African...
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![Preview: Don Kipper Album Launch & Big Ben Jorge @ Wilton’s Music Hall [London; 22nd June 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dom-kipper-335x168.jpg)
Following a couple of tours in Europe, as well as recent appearances in the duo Tsvey Kipperim, the Kippers are back in full-power mode with their album Seven Sisters. Since their union in 2013, Don Kipper has interpreted the soulful sense of joy and grief of North-East London communities coexisting...
We are always keen on finding out and disclosing musicians’ little secrets…and we are even keener to do that when we love those musicians. In anticipation of their London’s show at Archspace (happening tomorrow), we asked Brazilian genre-defying and inventive trio Metá Metá to reveal their musical inspirations and current music listenings....
![Album Review: Anelis Assumpção – Taurina [Scubidu Music; February 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/taurina-335x335.jpg)
Taurina, the third album from Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) singer-songwriter Anelis Assumpção is calm tropicália, fuelled with Brazilian flavours; the country’s musical aesthetic is combined with progressive rock influences throughout the album. The smooth and funky grooves by the Sao Paulo based singer-songwriter are best suited to a warm Sunday...
There is no better way to celebrate International Women’s Day (and a few days after) than through music, poetry, workshops, talks and more, and no better way than doing it through an inclusive and entirely free festival lighting up the second weekend of March in the London’s East End. Poplar...
Preview of the album: Tracklist: 1. 47Soul – Mo Light [Cooking Vinyl] 00:00 – 04:28 2. Chinese Man – Wolf [Chinese Man Records] 04:29 – 08:38 3. Manu Delago – Mesmer Mesmerising (feat. Isa Kurz) [Tru Thoughts Records] 08:39 – 11:44 4. Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu [Awesome Tapes from...
![Album Review: Populous – Azulejos [Wonderwheel Recordings // La Tempesta Dischi, 9th June 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/azulejos_artwork__front_-335x335.jpg)
If you’ve ever wandered through the streets of Lisbon, you probably came across stunning walls of blue-painted ceramic tiles, the azulejos, depicting amazingly intricate patterns and detailed paintings. The iconic tiles give name to the fifth album of the Lecce-born, Milan-based producer, Andrea Mangia, aka Populous, after his experience in...
They don’t visit London and the UK very often (the last time it happened was for the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony), but when they do, they always give an electrifying and memorable experience to their audience. It happened again just a few days ago when Bernando Santos (better known as...
We discovered them almost one year ago thanks to their debut album and it was love at first listen. That’s why, a few weeks after the release of their second work (Entremundos) and a few days before their second UK tour (with a stop-over at London’s Jazz Café on the...
![Album Review: Gilles Peterson Presents Sonzeira – Tam… Tam… Tam…! Reimagined [Brownswood Recordings – July 15, 2016]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/a0234754268_10-335x335.jpg)
Tam Tam Tam Reimagined, well, reimagines a classic Brazilian music, from Jose Prates’ Tam Tam Tam, into the second volume of Gilles Peterson’s Sonzeira project (the first release was Bam Bam Bam.) The original Tam Tam Tam was an album of lively drumbeating, band playing, and singing, that sounds like...
