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

New Caledonia carries two histories: French penal colony from 1864, indigenous Kanak territory for millennia before. Marcus Gad, a roots reggae singer/songwriter born and raised there, addresses both on “Where Mi Come From”, his new single with producer...

Yeison Landero still plays cumbia in the same way he learnt it as a child in San Jacinto, a small town in Colombia’s Montes de María where the diatonic accordion became central to local dance music. His grandfather Andrés Landero listened to the gaita...

Mbira Renaissance Band open “Zvichapera” almost in a whisper and build it up with mbira, brass, drum kit and full band around a Shona song whose title means “it will end” and whose words ask when hardship will finally stop. The song comes from a mbira...

“Ambeh” is a Kuwaiti Arabic exclamation roughly meaning “really?” or “seriously?”, and here it turns into a full-on put-down in Gulf Arabic over Etaf’s own guitar. This new acoustic version arrived on 30 January via EMPIRE, following the 2025 studio...