It’s been a while that we have been trying to bring Gianni Denitto, his saxophone and far-reaching soundscapes to a London stage, and finally we are going to make it on 7th July at Hootananny! The Italian artist is something more than a jazz and jazzy musician; he’s a one-man-band,...
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The Enfants terribles from the Golan Heights are finally back! TootArd, the band that, little more than a year ago, fired us up with their second album (Laissez Passer) and related tour will be taking another trip to the UK pretty soon. Not only will they be playing two sets...
We’re getting jazzier here at Rhythm Passport, and for our next Global Sounds show, we are going to present on the Hootananny stage a full Gipsy-jazz quintet: Gypsy Dynamite! You can hardly find a more spot-on name, because the ensemble will not only charm you with some smooth and rhythmic...
At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some...
We grew fonder and fonder of Batov Records and its mission. In the last six years (it was founded in the “heady summer days of 2013”), the London label, captained by DJ Kobayashi, has constantly thrown a vivid light on the new sounds coming from the Middle East, East Mediterranean...
Drop the curtain on your March with a Balkan, East European and Middle Eastern sound ingestion. On Sunday 31st, Tashkezar will set the Hootananny stage for a luscious feast of tasty notes caught from the Adriatic Sea to the Euphrates. Tunes of the Turkish, Greek, Balkan and Arabic traditions will...
Brixton is very much a stand-out home of the musical Caribbean diaspora in London, the home of much reggae, dub and ska… and on the 29th, Brixton shall play host to perhaps the most prevalent contemporary African-American poets – The Last Poets. Hootananny, which hosts all things weird and wonderful,...
Our Balkan music tour carries forward with a quintessential London-based gipsy band. On 24th February, the Gipsydelica caravan will stop over in Brixton for a rolling, rumbling and rutilant show that will have you dancing to exhaustion. But that’s inevitable when you play such upbeat, rich and unrestrainable music. Gipsydelica’s...
After having sailed all along the Mediterranean musical Sea, now it’s time to go ashore and discover what continental Europe has to offer when it comes to notes. For the first Rhythm Passport’s Rootmaster appointment of 2019, we will visit the Balkans, Bulgaria to be more precise, with a good-and-proper...
Our Rootmaster Goes Mediterranean events have one last docking for 2018, which is on schedule for Sunday 25th November, with Amaraterra and DJ Aly Prince spinning the Hootananny’s helm. The third episode of the series will release all the rhythmic and enrapturing power of Southern Italy and Greek traditional music enhanced...
