By now, you’d already know that we don’t like charts, ranks or hierarchies. So, of course, we have compiled a list of our favourite albums of the year (next to songs and videos), but more than a ranking, we prefer to call our choices a “music guide to 2018”. To...
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A band steeped in societal message, Bokanté strive to bring more awareness to social abstraction and human indifference. Through a cultural exchange and mingling of musical languages, the new group (formed by Snarky Puppy founder Michael League) cover a diverse spectrum of styles. Despite the heavy theme of their lyrics,...
![Album Review: Bokanté and Metropole Orkest – What Heat [Real World Records; 28th September 2018]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bokante-what-heat-335x335.jpg)
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Album Review: Bokanté and Metropole Orkest – What Heat [Real World Records; 28th September 2018]
Two hot, Grammy award-winning jazz outfits – Bokanté (founded by Michael League of the multicultural New York-based group Snarky Puppy) and Metropole Orkest (the jazz and pop orchestra whose chief conductor Jules Buckley had previously collaborated with Snarky Puppy in 2016) – released What Heat on 28th September 2018 for...
![Album Review: Martyn Bennett – Grit [Real World Records, 28th July 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mb_grit-cover-3000pxls-335x335.jpg)
Anyone who knows the story of Martyn Bennett cannot help but be moved by Grit, his final album released in 2003. He died of cancer just over a year later at the age of 33. At the time of its release, Real World described Grit as: “arguably one of the...
![Album Review: Les Amazones d’Afrique – République Amazone [Real World Records, 10th March 2017]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/les-amazones-dafrique-335x335.jpg)
République Amazone, is a work, crafted by a supergroup of ten divas of African music – Les Amazones d’Afrique, the most well known of them being Beninese international superstar Angelique Kidjo. The album, lively from beginning to end, is primarily concerned with melding rhythm, elegance, and a message against the...
Calling out a beaming welcome to the ambassador of Honduras, Aurelio gently filled the room with his unique equatorial style, set against swelling stringed harmonies. Joined not only by their country roots, Aurelio also shares common prestige with his political friend for his standing within the Garifuna community, and for...
There’s no better way to start organising and running events than with artists that you deeply and sincerely admire. That’s why we are simply thrilled to announce that, in partnership with Movimientos, we are giving you the opportunity to enjoy an exclusive performance of Aurelio Martinez and Juanita Euka at Rich Mix on the 1st...
Perched high in Garifuna music’s history is Aurelio Martinez, a songbird of vibrant, metisse, colours. Garifuna music, being that of the Garifuna, a people descending from the meeting of Arawak and African slaves brought to the New World in revolting times, and who spread across Latin America and the Caribbean,...
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: [chimpy_form forms=”1] Tracks list: 1. Aurelio – Laru Beya [Real World Records] 00:00 – 03:51 2....
![Album Review: Aurelio Martinez – Darandi [Real World Records, 20th January]](http://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/81azhrmz28l._sl1200_-335x335.jpg)
Dance to the beat of the mayflower drum. Sway with the lilting fluid guitar and chant with lungs full of ocean air. In his fourth solo album Darandi, Aurelio Martinez shares his impassioned coastal compositions of Garifuna music written across the last thirty years of his career. Aurelio is best known...