We know, we know, it’s the London Jazz Festival week…still we are also sure that your ears and legs are ready to listen and dance to something completely different, but equally enriching and exciting…something as heartening and invigorating as the sound of marimba. In fact, on Saturday and Sunday, you...
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We are almost there! On Wednesday, Womex will finally kick off its 2022 edition, so much so our Musical Road to Womex is reaching its very last stages. But before the Worldwide Music Expo will raise the curtain on its Lisbon stage, we still have two more stop-overs to close...
Son Rompe Pera electrified a sleepy Sunday tent at Womad this year; their high-energy cumbia-punk kicked off an early afternoon tropical dance party. Thrash marimba and infectious rhythms punctuated by searing guitar and wild yells drove a dazed crowd into a joyful frenzy. The band’s passion for the new-from-old sound...
To save the world you have to start somewhere… And what’s better than the smooth and soothing sound of a marimba as an inception? At Rhythm Passport, we always look forward and warmly embrace projects aiming to effectively make a real difference through music. Some months ago, at Womex in...
About time! We have grown so fond of Son Rompe Pera and their marimba-driven incendiary mixture of cumbia and punk that we were almost planning a trip to Mexico City to enjoy one of their live shows. But, luckily, the music lovers at Womad and Movimientos might have read our...
“Rumba pa’ Goza” is the first single extracted from the new album by Ruca y El Quinde de Barbacoas ¡Dale Duro al Bombo!, which was released today by Discos Pacífico, features 14 songs that sum up the talent and significance of Ruth Elena Cabezas (La Ruca) for the Colombian Pacific...
Here’s the new single and video by one of the new sensations of Afro-Colombian music. ‘Batea’, by San Andrés de Tumaco-based band Bejuco, is extracted from the debut album of the band out now on Discos Pacífico/Llorona Records : https://lloronarecords.bandcamp.com/album/batea “Bejuco plays bambuco, bunde, juga, employing the timbre...
Have a listen to the collaborative single by Afro-Colombian institution Herencia de Timbiqui and reggaeton vocalist Disney Flow revisiting the traditional Pacific Colombian tune ‘La Vamo A Tumbar’. The track is part of Herencia Pacífica, Herencia de Timbiqui’s new album fusing sounds from the Colombian Pacific coast with urban...
It goes without saying that we will miss Bandcamp Fridays… Today, till midnight (Pacific Time), is indeed the last appointment with one of our favourite initiatives meant to support and bring some well-deserved fee-free income to the pocketsof labels and musicians. So, to celebrate the 10th Bandcamp Friday of this...
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