This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you...
Tag Archives: Tunisia
Don’t turn up your nose at what the event title claims; that it’s truly the best Arabic electronic and underground music event in London. Not only have the organisers, MARSM UK, built a name as the most active promoters for Arabic and Middle Eastern music, they also know a thing...
We are fond of musicians who can surprise us and who can afford to explore new traditions, consciously and respectfully experimenting with them. So, it’s with real pleasure that we share a playlist compiled for us by François Cambuzat, one of the architects who shaped the Ifriqiyya Electrique project, next...
![Album Review: Ammar 808 – Maghreb United [Glitterbeat Records; June 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ammar808-335x335.jpg)
Known for its astonishing desertic landscapes and its rich cultural history, the Maghreb is a vast region in North Africa that was once ruled by Berber dynasties under one reign. Nowadays, this land is divided between Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara, but nevertheless, their differences are strongly...
Sofyann Ben Youssef is not the kind of musician who likes having too much attention on himself. Despite being the master builder and wizard behind the sounds of some of the most exciting North African projects of recent times, you have probably never heard of him. That’s because he likes...
![Album Review: Ifriqiyya Electrique – Rûwâhîne [Glitterbeat Records, 26th May 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ifriqiyya-electrique-335x335.jpg)
Rûwâhîne is the debut album from Ifriqiyya Electrique, a Franco-Tunisian collaborative project that will make your soul shake to fainting with their raw, sophisticated and daring amalgamation of Sufi chants and industrial grooves of metallic sonority. Imagine yourself rushing through a labyrinth in the middle of an electric thunderstorm. This...
There are some intense and unique cultural expressions that are too complex to describe if you haven’t experienced them first-hand. The ritual of Sidi Marzûq performed by the Banga community and occurring every year in the Djerid Desert in southern Tunisia is one of them. Luckily, we had the pleasure to...
![Album Review: Bargou 08 – Targ [Glitterbeat Records, 17th Febaruary 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/a2748431087_10-335x335.jpg)
When you think of Tunisia, nothing less than the ruins of a great civilization, those of Carthage for example, come to mind. Think of a barren valley and a village, instead, between the mountains Northwest Tunisia and its border with Algeria, when contemplating Targ, by Nidhal Yahyaoui and his band...
