![Album Review: Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina [Glitterbeat Records, 16th September 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/noura-mint-seymali-arbina-800-335x335.jpg)
Noura Mint Seymali’s latest release, Arbina (Glitterbeat Records), is probably one of the most unusual and intriguing albums I’ve ever listened to. As someone who unfortunately isn’t very familiar with West African music (let alone that of Noura’s homeland, Mauritania), my first taste of her album initially left me slightly...
Tag Archives: Glitterbeat Records
![Album Review: Gaye Su Akyol – Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu [Glitterbeat Records, 11th November, 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/a2744018495_10-335x335.jpg)
Gaye Su Akyol blends Western rock and the sounds of psychedelia with traditional Turkish-influenced melodies. A dizzying and yet strangely addictive combination, imagine finding yourself on a hallucinatory high with a herd of dancing camels in a middle-eastern desert, and this would be the perfect soundtrack. Gaye is a fresh...
![Album Review: Orkesta Mendoza – ¡Vamos A Guarachar! [Glitterbeat Records, 7th October 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/a0442170445_10-335x335.jpg)
Laying down simmering slabs of cumbia and mambo, tempered with a folkloric, tex-mex psychedelic edge, Orkesta Mendoza brings you their latest album all the way from Tucson Arizona. Lead by musical polymath, Sergio Mendoza, who is also a member and co-producer of Southwestern music legends Calexico at the helm they...
![Album Review: Khmer Rouge Survivors – They Will Kill You, If You Cry [Glitterbeat Records, 19th August 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/khmer-rouge-survivors-they-will-kill-you-if-you-cry-1000-335x335.jpg)
Aside from Indonesia’s Gamelan ensembles, Southeast Asia rarely features on the global music scene. This is a shame, given the region’s incredibly diverse musical and cultural landscape, which stretches across ten countries from Myanmar to Indonesia. It therefore means a lot to Southeast Asians such as myself, when individuals such...
![Album Review: Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra – S/T [Glitterbeat Records, 24th June 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/a2427215732_10-335x335.jpg)
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra self titled debut is an album of Haitian songs, some Vodou culture songs, in a way which fans of Haitian music are accustomed to. Instead it has mixed Haitian rhythms with afrobeat to produce something new. An album that covers all of Haiti’s cultural roots that are not only...
How does one successfully blend the sounds and instruments of several cultures in order to produce something new? It’s a question that has puzzled many great musicians from Gilberto Gil to the Rolling Stones. What we do know is that it includes putting together a great band and the art...
![Album Review: M.A.K.U. Soundsystem – Mezcla [Glitterbeat Records, 27th May 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/maku-sound-system-mezcla-2400-335x335.jpg)
When we think of music from the heart, of unified voices that sing from the spirit, of souls in search of their roots and identity, we think of M.A.K.U. Soundsystem. “We’re that mixture, inescapable mixture” the group rightfully claims. With vibrating grooves and frantic afro-beats, the indigenous life experiences of...
![Album review: Damir Imamovic Sevdah Takht – Dvojka [Glitterbeat Records, 29th April 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/artworks-000150474487-pt5s7o-t500x500-335x335.jpg)
Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht continue with their stated mission to pursue innovations in modern sevdah music, on their second album Dvojka released at the end of this month. Fronted by Sarajevo born Imamovic, this pan-Balkan band with members from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia bring a range of musical...
![Album Review: Various Artists – Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches From Traditional Mali – CD+DVD [Glitterbeat Records, 1st April 2016]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/0006853723_10-1-335x335.jpg)
Mali’s profile on the global music scene has been rising for years, producing any number of internationally renowned artists. Featured on this album is singer and guitarist Afel Bocoum, a notable example of one such musician, but the overall focus of Every Song Has Its End is not on global...
