Que chido, güey! We knew that with Wahaca and their Day of the Dead festival, we were going to live an epic night, but we weren’t prepared for such an extraordinary experience… Next, to the high-powered performances of two of our favourites acts (Family Atlantica and Voodoo Love Orchestra), the...
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You can never get enough of Toots Hibbert and his inseparable Maytals That’s why after his latest London show at the Barbican there were friends, fans, and media all waiting in line to get a few words, a photo or just a glimpse of a true music legend, we had...
![Album Review: Ariwo – Ariwo [Manana Records, June 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a2879113004_16-335x335.jpg)
Ariwo‘s eponymous EP may only be four tracks long, but the length of the tracks gives it more of an album feel and, indeed, one on an opus level. Bridging an extraordinary cultural and global gap, this quartet is one part Iranian and three parts Cuban and explores the rich...
Less than a month ago, we had the pleasure to co-promote an exciting event at The Jazz Café. Family Atlantica and Vula Viel shared the Camden venue’s stage to give life to an electrifying show bringing together West African, Caribbean and Latin American vibes. Since, at times, we prefer to let the images...
Join M.I.A. at the iconic Southbank Centre from 8-19 June for this year’s Meltdown Festival, which she has carefully curated for your aural and visual pleasure! This year is the 24th edition of the Meltdown Festival, which features a different, respected musician at the helm each year, showcasing their influences...
Start with an abajo, then a vacila followed by an enchufla and finally a dile que no…Refresh your Cuban dance moves, because this summer, Havana Musica and the Jazz Café have four nights in store that will bring the Habana Vieja atmosphere to Camden. From the 2nd of June with...
Last year, the first edition of Borderless festival, closed the London summer season in style with an amazing line-up throughout a two-month span. 2017 promises to be much the same. Even if it will all happen in Spring and will be less broad considering the number or shows (from 14 to...
Before learning to walk and talk, Luzmira Zerpa was already singing… well, maybe that’s not literally what happened, but since an early age, the woman who would become the voice, cuatro player and relentless energetic drive of Family Atlantica grew up in an environment where listening to, singing and playing...
![Album Review: Inna de Yard – The Soul of Jamaica [Chapter Two Records, 10th March 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/163755-335x335.jpg)
Reggae was born as an attempt at offering a mass of people tired of pretending to be a rational, liberal, colonial society, a new direction for feeling and human relations and it provided the cement for a new socios (partnership.) Inna de Yard (inside of the yard,) made of reggae...
![Album Review: Residente – s/t [Sony Music Latin, 31st March 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/residente_cover_final_bleed-335x343.jpg)
I am writing this review at the Santa Monica Pier in LA, surrounded by sea, sand, a Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., street singers of oldies, families, skaters; plunged in living a visually and sonically loud setting. I’ve chosen to pick a shade and to live it until I leave. Others...
