![Album Review: Chassol – Ludi [Tricatel; March 2020]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/chassol-ludi-cover-335x335.jpg)
French composer and musician Christophe Chassol, who has collaborated with Frank Ocean and Solange, has become known for “ultrascore”, a musical technique that can be thought of as harmonising reality. Ludi (released on 6th March 2020 via Tricatel) is his latest effort applying this technique, as he continues to draw...
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Experience a genre-crossing musical deluge, travelling between hip-hop, grime, jazz and classical with one of London’s most forward thinking artists. Fast becoming a staple of London live music culture, Earth provides a space that can offer big and international acts an interesting space to play to large audience. Not sanitised...
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On Friday 8th November, Southbank Centre dedicates a night to Ólafur Arnalds and his art. The Icelandic composer and pianist will take over the London riverside cultural hub and its venues to give life to OPIA, a programme of performances and DJ-sets featuring exciting names in the electronica, contemporary, classic,...
There’s something in Omar Sosa’s music that charms and allures you; so much so that you can’t unhook from its notes; it might be because of its rhythms or dreamy melodies. It’s not an exaggeration in saying that you will end up keeping those tunes with you, forever. Thanks to...
Further expanding the horizons of modern jazz, Tigran Hamasyan was joined by Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and the London Vocal Octet to bring about a fusion of the past and present. It is the unpredictable nature of Tigran that keeps his listeners coming back time and time again to his...
I remember the first time I heard Chassol like it was yesterday. I was listening to “Pipornithology, Pt. II” – from his acclaimed album Big Sun – and I was blown away, by the way, he started with the recording of a singing bird and used it to create an...
We grew fonder and fonder of Transparent Water, the fourhanded album released by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita in February, blending together Caribbean and West African traditions with musical spices coming from all over the world. So, after having reviewed the album, interviewed Seckou Keita and previewed the ongoing UK...
![Album Review: Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita – Transparent Water [World Village/Harmonia Mundi, 24th February 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/artworks-000190691518-ioy2nx-t500x500-335x335.jpg)
Transparent Water, a meeting between Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa and versatile Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita, is a delightful sounding album that lures the listener into an enchanted sonorous world. Keita has made his mark in recent years as a sensitive collaborator (with Welsh harpist Katrin Finch, for example),...
An intricate blend of traditional Armenian folk melodies and tender jazz piano compositions is what you can expect from the renowned artist Tigran Hamasyan. He will be performing for your pleasure on the 6th of April at King’s Place, as part of his solo tour through Europe, presenting songs from...