Combo Chimbita, a New York-based Latinx quartet of Colombian origin, just released a new single from their upcoming album IRE, out in January 2022 via ANTI-. As Carolina Oliveros, the lead singer of the ‘Tropicalfuturist’ band, explained, “Oya is a very powerful feminine deity, goddess of storms and winds, guardian of cemeteries, and...
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You don’t often have the opportunity to explore and delve into the cultural roots and family tree of a musician simply by listening to his music. With Cochemea, we were offered just that. His second album, Baca Sewa, which was released only a few days ago by Daptone Records, is...
New label, new project and New World… We are always excited when new music projects come to life, and we can’t welcome them enough, especially when their creators are people who care about music and know tons about it, as well as being good old friends of Rhythm Passport. If...
Gitkin Album Release ShowTip Jar:www.venmo.com/brianjmusicwww.paypal.me/brianjmusicZelle: brianj88@gmail.com Listen to the Album here:https://ingroov.es/safe-passage Gitkin Album Release ShowTip Jar:www.venmo.com/brianjmusicwww.paypal.me/brianjmusicZelle: brianj88@gmail.comListen to the Album here:https://ingroov.es/safe-passage Posted by Rhythm Passport on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 You can listen to Safe Passage, Gitkin's new album following this link
In our new podcast series, we’ve chosen to focus on who provide us with the precious “raw material” for our listenings and features: quality new music! We are talking about those heroes who decided to launch, nurture and cultivate a record label (better if with an ‘independent’ in front of it). As the...
The Last Poets need no introduction, yet I find myself being reintroduced to them through their album Understanding What Dub Is (released by Studio Rockers). With their origins in Harlem in the late 1960s and the early hip-hop community, their spoken-word poetry, merged with political activism, is a sound that has...
Antibalas bring the energy of afrobeat and jazz, and the fire of funk and dub, modelled from Fela Kuti’s band, Africa 70. The afrobeat orchestra are celebrating their twentieth year as a band on Daptone Records at London’s Jazz Cafe. Although well versed in their original songs, which blend all...
View Nickodemus bio here Spring Thing by Nickodemus “Here’s a mix reflecting the diverse international dance music coming out of the Wonderwheel Recordings label as well as songs from similar artists I’ve been enjoying lately. The lead track is off my new album A Long Engagement released on May 4th. It’s...
Can you think of a more cosmopolitan, complicated, international, culturally mixed place than New York City? A once-Dutch colony that through the centuries has welcomed migrants from all over the world to become one of the most culturally varied, exciting, fervent cities in the world. From Little Italy to Chinatown,...
Among tall skyscrapers, basketball courts, and yellow cabs rushing through the streets of the Big Apple, there is a twelve-piece band that holds high the banner of afrobeat well outside the borders of West Africa. They are Antibalas (Spanish for bulletproof); the horn-driven, afrobeat supergroup from Brooklyn, NY, founded by...