Less than a week to go to our next appointment with Sounds of the World, the music series, part of the Greenwich Family Arts Festival calendar, that Rhythm Passport is curating in partnership with Tramshed. On Sunday 18th of July, at the Garrison Church in Woolwich, we will present an evening of global...
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Ten years of making radio and 500 podcasts, that’s what Mukambo is celebrating this week. So we have a special program talking you through the very vest albums of those ten years. Get ready for a trans-Atlantic trip going from Africa over Latin America to Europe, and a pan-African ride...
Nightshop show for June 2021 via Radio Campus Bxl, Rhythm Passport & Groovalizacion Radio with 3 hours of new global sounds. 4 songs of the day from Colombia to Martinique and Colombia-meets-Brazil and a Palestinian song. Our albums of the month first take us to Africa, with folk sounds from...
Electro-Caribbean Colombian duo Acid Coco recently released their brand-new single “continuing and evolving their signature electro-punk-cumbia sound”. ‘Hoy Como Siempre’ comes eight months after the publication of the duo’s debut album “Mucho Gusto” (El Palmas Music) and anticipates their second LP, out later this year. Find more info...
Just like a contemporary storyteller or a London-based calypsonian, Anthony Joseph is a perceptive and insightful narrator of the present days. The music and lyrics of the Trinidad-born singer/songwriter open windows wide on the here and now and it’s not by coincidence that his upcoming album The Rich Are Only...
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:
Here’s the first single extracted from The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives, the upcoming album by Trinidadian singer/songwriter, poet and activist Anthony Joseph out on May 7th via Heavenly Sweetness. The albums, which was recorded live last August, “is an almighty jam operating as a dedication...
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: [chimpy_form forms=”1] Track List: 1. Ballaké Sissoko feat. Sona Jobarteh –...
On the 26th of March, Heavenly Sweetness will be reissuing Cosaque 1978, an album firstly released in 1977 by influential Guadeloupean musician Erick Cosaque. Cosaque is indeed one of the most recognised interpreters of the Caribbean island culture, becoming the main exponent of the local Gwo-ka tradition. More...
“From the forthcoming album ‘Havana Meets Kingston – Part 2‘ this stunning version of ‘Lagrimas Negras’ features legendary Cuban singer Beatriz Márquez together with some of Jamaica and Cuba’s most accomplished musicians. This exclusive video footage shows Cuba’s capital city in a very different light, captured during the various...