![Album Review: Antibalas – Where The Gods Are In Peace [Daptone Records; September 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/antibalas-335x335.jpg)
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...
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There’s no escape from the mighty beat of the dhol. That’s why Red Baraat‘s gig at Rich Mix on the 7th May will blow you and the Shoreditch venue away. The 8-piece band from Brooklyn, with roots firmly planted in the North Indian tradition and a brass section loud enough...
Gogol Bordello’s “mad scientist psychedelic laboratory” is open for business as usual: Testing, experimenting and playing around with Gypsy punk, Eastern European sounds and notes since 1999. Almost twenty years after their debut, the band from New York City is ready to release its tenth album titled Seekers and Finders...
![Preview: De La Soul @ Roundhouse [London, Friday 10th March 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/62d1a6c543617e14ee1320204ff62d5a-335x188.jpeg)
After a much awaited comeback in August 2016 with the release of their first album in 12 years, and the Anonymous Nobody, legendary American hip hop trio De La Soul are now on a tour that will touch down in London on Friday 10th March, at the similarly legendary venue...
A reception to Fronteras, a performance by Philippe Baden Powell and Cecilia Zabala we covered at the Americas Society & Council of the Americas in New York, was held right after the show, in an adjacent room. It was a room with large windows, and two tables purposed for consumption: one...
![Review: Cecilia Zabala & Philippe Baden Powell – Fronteras @ Americas Society & Council of the Americas (New York, U.S. – 26th January 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/zabala_02-2-335x223.jpg)
Hidden away, there is an old Beaux-Arts mansion at 680 Park Ave in New York City wherein members and non-members congregate for various cultural activities. To attend, one first walks through the old mansion’s black gates, into a lobby that could be an art gallery, surrounded by very white walls....
Despite jazz’s being born to warm weather New Orleans, a city full of “elaborate wedding-cake ceilings, wide sliding doors, tall French windows” to quote New Orleans native Truman Capote, the music has always adapted itself to cold weather living pretty well. If a life of surrounding swamps, deltas, briar patches,...
![Album Review: Nicolas Jaar – Sirens [30th September 2016, Other People]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/nicolas-jaar-sirens-album-body-image-1474656676-335x335.jpg)
It might have been released close to the end of the year, but three months were more than enough to dub Nicolas Jaar’s Sirens one of the best albums of 2016. We had already had clues when Jaar’s label Other People’s website transformed into a cryptic radio network at the end...
Anacreon, lyrical poet of wine and of revelry (one of Ancient Greece’s nine greatest poets), how would you have regarded the songs of Boulo Valcourt at the Five Myles Gallery in New York City, a city that is a daughter of your beloved Greek civilization? Like you playing your lyre,...
In 1970s New York salsa emerged, conquering the world in just a few decades. Caribbean migrants (mainly Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban) were at the heart of the Latin community, bringing musical styles such as cha cha chá, son, guaracha, mambo, bolero, plena, bomba and even Latin jazz. This breeding...
