Rhythm Passport – Music… It means the world to us!

A one-take cut to lacquer at Metropolis. Kokoroko record “Express Your Love” straight to vinyl, folding a 1970s soul plea into their London afrobeat-jazz language.
The track goes back to the early 1970s single by The Sweet & Innocent, where the singer asks for love to show in daily life, through actions and through words. At Metropolis, Noushy takes lead with Kokoroko for the first time, with Maurice Grey on...

“Alpha & Omega” is the title track from Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers’ brand-new four-song Alpha & Omega EP, released on 6 February via Colorful World. The Amsterdam-based project led by Dutch multi-instrumentalist Niels Nieuborg, who...

Colonial borders cut Tuareg ancestral territory into Mali, Algeria, Libya and Niger. On Tinariwen’s “Imidiwan Takyadam”, that history is present tense: people scattered and culture under strain. The song is taken from Hoggar, their tenth album, out ...

Sea-facing devotion, sung in a circle. A ciranda is a roda dance-song from the coast of north-eastern Brazil, and on “Ciranda Rainha” São Paulo singer Rodrigo Ciampi keeps that call-and-response frame while recording with Afro-Cuban percussion from Batanga...