Less than a week to go to our next appointment with Sounds of the World, the music series, part of the Greenwich Family Arts Festival calendar, that Rhythm Passport is curating in partnership with Tramshed. On Sunday 18th of July, at the Garrison Church in Woolwich, we will present an evening of global...
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Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List: 1. Mungo’s Hi Fi x Gardna & Catching Cairo –...
With a new year just started, it’s time to tidy up our most recent music listening(s) and find out what the mad, mad 2020 offered us when it came to new songs. Despite what we all had to bear, music brought us plenty of relief. So, check out our most...
If you want to relate with and understand the present state of a country, listen to its hip-hop music. That’s increasingly becoming a rule in the current cultural scenario. MCs have indeed become intrinsic to the social fabric of their communities. They sing about them, fight for them and are...
During the last year, hip-hop has become one of the most attractive Brazilian musical exports, and Marcelo D2 one of its most emphatic representatives. So, it’s a pleasure to welcome him back to London, writing about his upcoming show at The Jazz Café, which will also be the UK album...
We’ve partnered with Groovalizacion Radio to bring you a monthly collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
In times of end-of-year charts, top ten lists, ‘top of’ and ‘best of’, we’ve preferred to keep things as inclusive and smooth as possible, so we have simply “listened back” to 2017 and summed up what our speakers, headphones and earphones have played the most. Enjoy our 2017 in music...
A Brazilian institution, that’s how Marcelo D2 can legitimately be considered. The MC from Rio de Janeiro has spent the last 20 years of his career creating and developing his own unique blend bringing together the flavourful and mellow samba rhythms with realistic storytelling of Rio’s everyday life. His London...
Thank God for Brazil, that land, full of artists who believe in there being splendour in their differences, producing music that is the stuff of mythology. First came samba, then samba grew into bossa nova, samba cancao, tropicalia, samba torta, add a hip-hop flavour, and we start to get an...
Preview of the album: Track List: 1. Hoodna Orchestra – Alem feat. Demisu Belete 00:00 – 04:34 2. Paul Weller – Mother Ethiopia Part 3 (No Tribe No Colour) feat. Krar Collective [Parlophone Records] 04:35 – 08:05 3. BRZZVLL – Waiho [Sdban Ultra] 08:06 – 11:24 4. The Mouse Outfit feat. IAMDDB & Fox –...