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One of the sensations of 2017 is back in great shape despite its change in formation. A new single (titled ”Pyramid‘), an album-in-the-making (ready for this Summer) and a bunch of shows scattered throughout the next few months (starting from tonight at Village Underground, part of La Linea Festival) are...
When it comes to Yelfris Valdés and his countless music projects, you can be sure of two things: their quality and ability to surprise you. No matter whether they are more Latin, Afro-Cuban, electronic, traditional, jazz-oriented, or just fundamentally expressing their author – like the upcoming debut EP titled The...
![Album Review: Mista Savona – Havana Meets Kingston [Baco Records; 3rd November 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/draft10_mistasavona-havanameetskingston_lores-335x335.jpg)
Australian beatmaker and DJ, Jake Savona’s latest album Havana Meets Kingston seeks to unite two powerful and distinct musical islands with a wealth of Cuban and Jamaican guests and collaborators. Don’t expect a seamless hybrid of styles – the tracks fall roughly into either Latin or reggae – it’s not...
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February, blending together Caribbean and West African traditions with musical spices coming from all over the world. So, after having reviewed the album, interviewed Seckou Keita and previewed the ongoing UK...
![Album Review: Ariwo – Ariwo [Manana Records, June 2017]](http://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...
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...
![Album Review: El Septeto Santiaguero – Raiz [Egrem, March 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/septeto-santiaguero-raiz-2017-frontal-335x335.jpg)
Contemporary Cuban music is currently enjoying a high profile with exciting, forward-looking releases from Dayme Arocena and Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura project – twisting and morphing Cuban rhythms and songwriting into new shapes and sounds. With this in mind, El Septeto Santiaguero’s seventh album – Raiz represents the flipside –...
In April 2016, we had a chat and wished good luck to Jenner Del Vecchio for his upcoming new Cuban adventure called MANANA festival. So, it’s a great feeling, little more than a year later, to write once again about one of the most intriguing events of 2016, even if...
The concept behind the AfroCubism collaboration is to celebrate and unite some of Mali and Cuba’s hottest musicians and to explore their shared spirit of Afro-Cuban soul. In the Sixties, socialist Mali politics had close links to those of the new communist Cuban government, creating strong ties between the two...
