This week we travel to the Sahara desert in Niger to dance to some Touareg blues by Les Filles de Illighadad and Dag Tenere, both serving their own blend of Tamasheq sounds. Iswat by Dag Tenere (“the desert’s children”) is our album of the week. Radio Mukambo also takes you to...
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View Klik & Frik bio here With a brand new mixtape introducing their fresh from the oven EP Refugio, published by Big in Japan in mid-November and just reissued on vinyl, we welcome to Rhythm Passport Argentinian visionary folktronica and organic house duo Klik & Frik. Under the moniker of Frikstailer, Rafa Caivano and...
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
Tomorrow is the day! Bomba Estéreo and their Electro-cumbia will blow Koko and London away. Get ready for the most exciting show of the month with an exclusive playlist compiled for us by no other than Bomba Estéreo founder Simón Mejía Watch the full playlist: Track list: ÌFÉ – House of...
![Album Review: Luzmila Carpio – Luzmila Carpio Meets ZZK [ZZK Records, 23 February 2015]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/a2787331170_16-335x335.jpg)
Luzmila Carpio meets ZZK Records in this 2015 EP and the result is enthralling. Hailed as the most influential indigenous singer in South America, Carpio’s music has become a key instrument in her ongoing activism for the Quechua community. While it’s natural to be wary of remixes of traditional music, the seven remixed tracks in...