<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”&gt;&lt;/span&gt; View Irmãos Makossa bio here “This mix is the reflection of the work that Irmãos Makossa have been doing for the last 10 years in Portugal, which is showing...
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On Thursday the 22nd of March, Mulatu Astatke, widely known as the ‘father’ of Ethio-jazz, comes to the Barbican for a solo show alongside guests Fatima & Eglo Live Band, Ruby Rushton and Seb Rochford (Polar Bear). Whilst credited with inventing the genre of Ethio-jazz, it has still taken over...
![Album Review: Welcome to Zamrock! Volume 1 & 2 [Now-Again Records; June 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/welcome-zamrock-335x335.jpg)
As Gleb Anfilov put it, our planet has always been a giant atelier of music creation, of instruments, songs, and also an immense concert hall. The history of West African music and of mid-20th-century rock in particular, as is the subject of this review, is of this planet and both...
If anyone can claim the title of ‘afrobeat Ambassador’, it would be Seun Kuti. The youngest son of Fela Kuti and hereditary leader of the Egypt 80 is the bridge between his father’s role as afrobeat pioneer and the more contemporary metamorphosis and migrations of the Nigerian style. On Friday, Seun...
It will be the Afrobeat event of the year, next to one of the most exciting music parties of the month. When the official Afrobeat ambassador comes to town, you can be pretty sure that you’re going to sweat and dance away all the working week’s toxins in an all-singing...
![Album Review: Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu [Awesome Tapes from Africa, February 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/hailu-mergia-lala-335x335.jpg)
January and February are the times when we reconsider last year’s resolutions a bit more seriously. For master keyboard player and living legend Hailu Mergia, 2018 is his year. February is the time for a heartfelt resolution to happen worldwide, and after 15 years since his last release, everyone is...
A truly special evening at Jazz Café London will host a group of highlife music aficionados that is very likely to bring up the Ghanaian spirit of the ‘King of Highlife’. Highlife music airs meandering horn sounds melting with a travelling guitar’s voice, accompanied by up-tempo, enhanced clave rhythms. The...
![Album Review: Femi & The Inrhythms – Pressure to Pleasure [Joyful Noise Recordings, January 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/capture-335x293.jpg)
With headlines around the world of famine, inequality, racism, and Donald Trump, we go the other side of life, the good side, as Femi & The Inrhythms plays to spring us forth with their studio album: Pressure to Pleasure released by Joyful Noise Production. Rhythm’s effect on humans is Kafkaesque and...
Wormfood is an events company that sets out to align London domiciled African music with the dance floor energy of club nights. Set up in 2007, they have injected energy into many UK festivals and London’s wide array of world music venues. This ten-year celebration at South London’s Electric Brixton...
Fans of afrobeat must not miss Afrobeat Vibration’s 9th anniversary, which takes place at the Jazz Café on December 15th. Ahead of this celebration, Rhythm Passport caught up with Fela Kuti’s former keyboard player and Afrobeat Vibration’s founder, Dele Sosimi, for a brief chat. Rhythm Passport: When you left Fela...
