We don’t usually like to play favorites, but when we bang the drum for works involving Rhythm Passport family members, that’s because they fully deserve to be shared and reach you. That’s the case for A Waltz in New Orleans, a musical play which will be presented live at the Cockpit Theatre in...
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In the new episode of Rendez-Vous a Bobo, Lucas makes a ‘rendez-vous’ with DJ, broadcaster, and label boss Gilles Peterson. Gilles highlights a few key tunes from West Africa in his record box, talks French radio, and managing a record label in 2021. Tracklist: • Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight...
Lucas makes a Rendez-vous with The Lagos Thugs – a 15 strong afrobeat band fresh out of Lagos to talk inspiration, protest, and what’s in a name? Plus music from Kokoroko and Made Kuti Track list: Kokoroko – Abusey Junction [from We Out Here; Brownswood Recordings] Made Kuti –...
Something a little different this month as Lucas Keen makes a rendez-vous with the greatest jazz musician you’ve never heard of! Celebrating the West African origins of jazz – A Waltz in New Orleans is the fictionalised account of the birth of the modern drum set in New Orleans narrated...
Lucas Keen makes a rendez-vous with gqom – the South African dance music that emerged in the Durban hills and has gone global from Marvel’s Black Panther to Beyonce’s Black is King. Listen for the blueprint to making a gqom track and learn how to gwara gwara the signature dance...
2020 marks 60 years since independence for 17 African countries. For his latest Rendez-Vous à Bobo, Rhythm Passport’s Lucas Keen revisits 1960 sometimes known as ‘The Year of Africa’ to explore the euphoria and cultural renaissance of the epoch that followed via music from Nigeria, Congo, Burkina Faso and Mali....
Rendez-vous with Lucas Keen for an appointment to meet the little boat shaped lute played across the West African Sahel since the time of Mansa Musa. Hear the story of the djeli n’goni, get the job description for a griot, and learn where this iconic instrument which is the...
