Rhythm Passport holders, welcome aboard!
We’re six months into 2025, and the world music world has delivered some of its most daring, boundary-pushing work yet.
Over the next two hours here on RTM.FM, we’ll revisit the albums and tracks that defined our year so far, the ones we kept coming back to, that challenged expectations, moved the dancefloor or simply sounded like nothing else.
So sit back, relax and get ready for the 49th episode of Rhythm Passport Presents…
Track list
- INTRO – Joe Driscoll & Seckou Kouyaté – Passport
- Bad Bunny – Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii
- Moonchild Sanelly – Boom
- Blacksea Não Maya – Horizonte
- Ela Minus – Upwards
- Aïta Mon Amour – Radouni
- Fadi Tabbal – When We Swam Together
- Anthony Joseph – An Afrofuturist Poem
- Alsarah & The Nubatones – Men Ana
- Lagartijeando – La Cumbia de la Selva
- Anoushka Shankar – Dancing on Scorched Earth
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Cool Hand
- Kazdoura – Marhaba Ahlen
- Alex Etchart – Seeds Are Sewing (feat. Fire Choir)
- Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos – Fuego al Campanero
- Laura Itandehui – Mejor Ya No Regreses
- Salin – Si Chomphu
- Jan Kadereit & Gamelan Salukat – Kampana – Vibration, Trembling
- Zar Electrik – Babord
- Gabriele Poso – Ritmo Italiano
- Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – Rain Crow
- Ukandanz – Yene Felagote
- ESINAM & Sibusile Xaba – Flowing Keep Flowing
- Earl Sixteen & The Co Operators – Country Living
- Nazar – Anticipate
- Sami Galbi – Patience (feat. Ines)
- Nadah El Shazly – Elnadaha
- AMMAR 808 – Enouma (feat. Aida Nosrat)
- Luedji Luna – Dentro Ali
- Obongjayar – In the Dark
- Maurice Louca – Ghab
- Farhot – MARS
– Listen in to all of Rhythm Passport Presents… previous episodes HERE –
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