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Podcast: Switchstance Radio Brazil Music Special (December 2022)

Podcast: Switchstance Radio Brazil Music Special (December 2022)

This year for the very first time Switchstance Recordings label head Tom Strauch created a 2 hours special on contemporary music from Brazil. After witnessing his first live samba during WOMEX 2022 in Lisboa and having many Brazilian musicians as his friends these guys convinced Tom to do a special...
Playlist: Let Drum Beat x Arsenal of Sounds

Playlist: Let Drum Beat x Arsenal of Sounds

Arsenal of Sounds opening party is getting closer and closer! On Friday, you are all invited to the launch of our monthly series at Woolwich Works (tickets available HERE) featuring no less than outer-national cumbieros Malphino and Let Drum Beat, a band connecting the dots between the Afro-Brazilian percussive drive, Scottish folktales, and West African rhythms, with antennas...
Rhythm Passport Presents… #3 (January 2022)

Rhythm Passport Presents… #3 (January 2022)

This year, we decided to have a different go at the usual end of the year list. Thanks to RTM.FM and Taco!, we could change the medium and move from written words to on-air ones… Our first podcast of 2022 and third Rhythm Passport Presents… features a “best albums of...
Daily Discovery: Canto para Atabaque

Daily Discovery: Canto para Atabaque

Bahian musicians Tiganá Santana & BaianaSystem joined forces to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Brazilian politician, writer and guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella.   Together, they set to music one of Marighella’s poems titled ‘Canto Para Atabaque’, releasing two different versions, one of them featuring producer Buguinha Dub....
Visions of Sound (March 2021)

Visions of Sound (March 2021)

Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Daily Discovery: Reza Forte – BaianaSystem Feat. BNegão

Daily Discovery: Reza Forte – BaianaSystem Feat. BNegão

‘Reza Forte’ is the first single extracted from BaianaSystem’s new album Navio Pirata.   The LP is the first chapter of a three-act project titled OXEAXEEXU exposing the Afro-Latin and Afro-Brazilian connection and reflecting on the experiences the musicians went through the last months, both concerning the pandemic and political situation...