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Over a career spanning nearly six decades, Ebo Taylor, who has died at home in Ghana aged 90, recorded an impressive discography of music spanning highlife, afrobeat and more. From classics such as “Love and Death” which has become something of a jazz standard for students of the genre, to deep cuts sought out by samplers and producers in search of a hook, here Rhythm Passport remembers Ebo Taylor through his recordings. A bandleader, rhythm guitarist and lyricist in a […]...
Thirty-one bands. Twenty-five countries. Three nights where Mongolian throat-singing, Congolese electro-punk and Occitan polyphonic percussion share the same city programme. Every March, Marseille becomes a compass point for global music, and Babel Music XP is the reason why. From Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st March 2026, Babel Music XP returns with its twin identity as festival and professional forum, anchored at La Friche la Belle de Mai and spread across Espace Julien, La Plateforme, Cité de la Musique, Alcazar and Le […]...
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 ensembles and drum groups of the region and began adapting their repertoire. He took their rhythms, their melodies and their song structures and rewrote them for accordion. The result became known as cumbia de acordeón, and […]...
Event Preview: Brick Lane Jazz Festival 2026 (London; Thursday 23rd April to Sunday 26th April 2026)
Brick Lane Jazz Festival returns for its fifth edition across 12 stages in Brick Lane and Shoreditch, keeping the walkable format that lets you move between the Old Truman Brewery, Village Underground, Ninety One Living Room, Rich Mix and 93 Feet East in minutes. New for 2026 is a daytime conference programme running through the centre of the weekend, adding focused talks, workshops and mentoring sessions to a festival that has grown from four venues in 2022 into a 12-space […]...
Roberta Gulisano‘s songs begin in Sicilian dialect and in the daily life of a small town in the province of Enna, where folk tales, village poetry and family memories still shape how people speak to one another. Her latest EP A Ccu Apparteni?, released in 2024 by Mhodí Music Company, takes that local world and rewrites it from the vantage point of a migrant who has spent nine years in England, asking what remains when a person carries one culture […]...
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