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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 6h

Daily Discovery: Afrosideral – Afrotropical Mystic Live Set: Bali Afrosideral recorded his Afrotropical Mystic live set deep in the jungle of Bali, where "Líbrame de Arayé" opens on a Balinese flute in a version Kumar Sublevao-Beat shares only live #Afrosider rhythmpassport.com/?p=172887

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Efi Cruise – Ojoro Nigeria’s politicians love big words like democracy. On Ojoro, released on Independence Day, Efi Cruise gives them a more accurate one: oyocracy, government for yourself, by yourself. The title is Pidg rhythmpassport.com/daily-discovery-…

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Lagos Thugs – Na Dem Dey Enjoy Pass Lagos Thugs left "dem" undefined on "Na Dem Dey Enjoy Pass", Pidgin for who is enjoying the most, and drive it with blaring live horns. The European tour runs through October. #LagosThugs #Afrobeat #DailyDi rhythmpassport.com/?p=172884

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Simma & Hopebullet – Rub'a'Dub Love (Hopebullet Remix) "Rub'a'Dub Love" is 8-bit digital reggae by Hull producer Simma and deejay Daddy Cookiz, remixed into raggamuffin boom-bap by Osaka's Hopebullet. #Simma #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172843

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Daily Discovery: EYAA – Luku Luku A French-Ghanaian trio named for a cry tied to trance: Kyekyeku's voice, Fred Faure's drums, Kevin Bucquet's bass and machines. "Luku Luku" opens five singles leading to their first EP. #EYAA #AfroElectro #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172842

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Rabie Houti – Rokia A villager falls for his neighbour, and her mother, Rokia, opposes it. Rabie Houti sets the story to Arabo-Andalusian violin, electronic beats and rock guitars that build into trance. #RabieHouti #ArabAndalusian #DailyDisc rhythmpassport.com/?p=172841

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Total Hip Replacement & Anyankofo – The Search Danish horns over a highlife rhythm, written in a week of Kumasi jams with Florence Adooni's band and Santrofi's Nsoroma. The lyric hunts for purpose as life speeds up #TotalHipReplacement #Highl rhythmpassport.com/?p=172809

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Gordan – Mara Mara gets to Germany, buys the BMW, then the car dies on the Autobahn with her money gone. Svetlana Spajić found her in a two-line couplet and wrote the rest. First single from Gastarbeiter, Glitterbeat, 20 November. #Gordan #Ba rhythmpassport.com/?p=172749

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Kaya Street – Don't Give Up Harry Birch wrote it while drinking himself under and his mother was dying of bone cancer. The music pulls against all that: warm bass, bright guitar, a slow tempo. French-Congolese singer Lunda takes a verse. #Kay rhythmpassport.com/?p=172777

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Daily Discovery: Tamada & DillaNext – Gamachume A supra toast from two Georgians driven out of Sukhumi as children, raised to the Black Sea city and closed with five pleas for silence. #Tamada #Georgia #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172745

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Karen y Los Remedios – Curandera "Curandera" opens Bestiaria with a healer's instructions over dark cumbia, built from Ana Karen G. Barajas's illness and the women who nursed her. Out 9 October on ZZK Records. #KarenYLosRemedios #Cumbia #Dail rhythmpassport.com/?p=172758

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Daily Discovery: BRITTA – Achachay Achachay is what Ecuadorians say when the cold catches them, arraray when the heat does. Both came from Quichua into Andean Spanish, and BRITTA builds a love song in the gap between them. #BRITTA #AltL rhythmpassport.com/daily-discovery-…

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Julian Asher & Downtown Steppas – Elohim Berlin-based Julian Asher and Downtown Steppas build "Elohim" around the Hebrew name for God and a psalm Rastafari read as prophecy. From their album Just Cause. #JulianAsher #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172358

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky Daily Discovery: Cuatro Piraguas – La Cumbia del Jardinero Leipzig quartet Cuatro Piraguas, with members from Caracas and Rio, share "La Cumbia del Jardinero", a gardener's working day set to cumbia and the first single from debut album En vela. #Cu rhythmpassport.com/?p=172667

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Daily Discovery: The Winston Brothers – Get On Down Hamburg's Winston Brothers open second album Sweets with "Get On Down": a hard breakbeat, choppy guitar, sax and trumpet stabs and a dub-style breakdown. Due 6 November on Colemine Records. #TheWinstonBrothe rhythmpassport.com/?p=172710

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – DJB Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 take a church phrase, "the devil is busy", and point it at society on "DJB": seven minutes of dark Afrobeat with two drummers, Femi Koleoso among them. Na Dem is out 6 November. #SeunKuti #Afrob rhythmpassport.com/?p=172665

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Dr. Rayo x Barzo – Delfín del Mundo Madrid-based Dr. Rayo meets Costa Rican producer Barzo on a mid-tempo psychedelic cumbia built from live instruments, chanting Columbus's ships beside cacao and tobacco. Desertropical EP due in October. #Dr rhythmpassport.com/?p=172666

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Julian Belbachir – M'Bara Meskin Julian Belbachir rebuilds "M'Bara Meskin", a centuries-old devotional song from Morocco's Gnawa repertoire, on reggae and dub, with sessions in Morocco, Mali, Australia, Canada and Jamaica #JulianBelbachir #Gn rhythmpassport.com/?p=172664

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Black Sherif – Jolie Black Sherif takes his own sound apart on the SUN SHERIF EP. "Jolie" finds him alone, singing in Twi and English towards a chorus built on the French word for pretty. #BlackSherif #Highlife #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172553

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Messenjah & The Aarons Brothers – Don't Try A reggae song about the boss who takes the credit and calls the lateness a crime. Messenjah open "Social Commentary" with it, forty years on from Kitchener. #Messenjah #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172545

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Amamere – Kokonsani Amamere play 1970s guitar-band highlife out of Cape Coast, Ghana, birthplace of Ebo Taylor and C.K. Mann. Their "Kokonsani" was filmed live at Afrika Festival Hertme. #Amamere #Highlife #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172708

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Bamako Express – Yira Ye Ghent's Bamako Express put Belgian violin and guitar alongside Malian balafon and Burkinabè djembe, sung in Bambara. "Yira Ye" is the first single from their debut album, L'Ombre du Croco. rhythmpassport.com/?p=172668

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Macka B x Paul Lupa – Be Who You Are Ska and rocksteady tempo out of Hamburg, live horns and offbeat guitar, and forty years of advice in the toasting. #MackaB #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172535

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Kazayah – Sweet Love Fifteen singers, one backing track. Kazayah sings "Sweet Love" on Landmark Riddim, the one-drop Stay Nice Music spent nearly three years building in Maine. #Kazayah #Reggae #LoversRock rhythmpassport.com/?p=172490

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Aldo Zolev – Caminando Por La Playa Aldo Zolev's "Caminando Por La Playa" carries a beach title but marches through Bogotá, with bassoon over brisk percussion and double bass. He has just returned from a summer tour of Europe. #AldoZolev #Jaz rhythmpassport.com/?p=172489

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Director Shaibu – Wanga Afro-pop and Bongo Flava out of Zanzibar. "Wanga" is the newest single from Director Shaibu, drawn from Pilau, the eleven-track album named after the spiced rice of the islands. #DirectorShaibu #BongoFlava #Tanzania rhythmpassport.com/?p=172488

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Qadim Ensemble – En La Mar A maiden alone in a tower, calling to the sailors below. Rachel Valfer sings her in Ladino, flamenco guitar brings Andalusia back, Arabic percussion marks the road east. From Entre Las Huertas. #QadimEnsemble #Ladin rhythmpassport.com/?p=172473

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko & Carmelo Torres – Magdalena Ruiz San Jacinto had a dancer who could lift a whole room, and Adolfo Pacheco put her in a cumbia. First single from Madre Cumbia. #Cumbia #Colombia #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172475

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Daily Discovery: The Mbira Renaissance Band – Tadzungaira A Shona ceremonial piece, played when a family calls on its ancestors. The Edmonton band opened their Pocket-Sized session with it, recorded in a bookshop. rhythmpassport.com/daily-discovery-…

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Daily Discovery: House Of Fyah – Queen House Of Fyah's "Queen" salutes mothers, daughters and partners, co-written by UB40 veteran Matt Hoy, who was raised by a single mother, over Steve Clarke's roots reggae drums. #HouseOfFyah #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172474

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Karate Boogaloo – Down Home Karate Boogaloo's "Down Home" opens on light percussion and a mid-tempo bass line, then sets organ and choppy guitar over a drum kit that sounds close to falling apart. #KarateBoogaloo #Funk #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172472

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Daily Discovery: El Búho – Nuevos Horizontes (feat. Ana María Vahos) Ana María Vahos sings about Horizontes, a village of 195 people at 2,250 metres in Antioquia. Second single from El Búho's album Hogar, out 18 September. #ElBuho #Folktronica #Colombia rhythmpassport.com/?p=172476

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Echoes of Zoo – Higher Levels A highlife rhythm with its footing shifted, microtonal guitar out of Malian desert blues, funk bass holding the floor. The Brussels quartet's third album arrives 2 October. #EchoesOfZoo #Psychedelia #Jazz #DailyD rhythmpassport.com/?p=172471

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Saint Levant – Maskara Saint Levant joins Mohammed Assaf on "Maskara", pairing classic Levantine orchestral arrangements with modern Arabic pop rhythms and shared lineage. #SaintLevant #MohammedAssaf #ArabicPop #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172440

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Daily Discovery: LEENALCHI – Crying Softshell Turtle LEENALCHI restage a turtle-and-rabbit pansori standoff live at KCRW. Sugungga finally gets a worldwide release via Luaka Bop on 2 October. #LEENALCHI #Pansori #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172380

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Madra Salach – The Man Who Seeks Pleasure (Live from London) Recorded on the last night of their sold-out debut tour, Madra Salach's live cut of this EP standout is out now on Island Records. #MadraSalach #Folk #Ireland #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172417

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Protoje & Stephen Marley – 1000 Lashes Protoje filmed "1000 Lashes" inside the museum marking Ethiopia's 1896 defeat of Italy. Stephen Marley sings the chorus against a verse naming backs lashed and children sent into mines and conflict. #Reg rhythmpassport.com/?p=172416

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Daily Discovery: BaBa Zula – Kutsal Zeytin Halayı Noah's dove to the Mount of Olives: BaBa Zula trace the olive tree through myth on their new single, out now ahead of XXX on 25 September. #BabaZula #Psych #Dub #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172415

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Daily Discovery: Lee "Scratch" Perry & Geo Baddoo – Angels A decade-old Black Ark vocal meets a new Dennis Bovell dub mix on "Angels," the first single from Scratch Is Alive, out 13 November. #LeeScratchPerry #GeoBaddoo #Reggae #LoversRock #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172410

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Daily Discovery: King Kong x Josh Harris x Torch – Send Dem Come King Kong's commanding deejay voice drives "Send Dem Come," a heavy roots foundation from producer Josh Harris with harmonies from Torch and a dub mix from E.N Young. #KingKong #RootsReggae #Dai rhythmpassport.com/?p=172407

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Daily Discovery: DAGADANA – Będę Szczęśliwa DAGADANA build "Będę Szczęśliwa" around a river as a metaphor for life, a harmonium born from Dana Vynnytska's recovery, and the choice to forgive. #Dagadana #Folk #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172402

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Kazdoura – Taa Toronto duo Kazdoura debuted "Taa" on COLORS, combining classic Arabic pop phrasing with psych-rock guitar lines and a steady ride-cymbal chorus ahead of their European tour starting on 28 August #Kazdoura #Levantine #COLORS #D rhythmpassport.com/?p=172330

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Rhiannon Giddens – Freight Train Rhiannon Giddens covers Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" with just voice and guitar, matching the bareness of Cotten's 1958 recording. #RhiannonGiddens #Folk #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172370

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Thierry Kiranga – Hard Times On "Hard Times," Thierry Kiranga calls out a broken promise of safety and answers it by looking to the mentors and parents who taught him to sing. #ThierryKiranga #AfroCaribbean #Reggae #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172359

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Daily Discovery: BALTHVS – Pale Blue Dot From Bogotá, BALTHVS borrow Carl Sagan's view of Earth from deep space for "Pale Blue Dot", a slow-burn asking why we would wreck the only home we have. #BALTHVS #Colombia #Funk #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172329

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Malaka – Courir On "Courir," Malaka trade a stuttering, anxious verse for a hip-hop-tinged stand rooted in mixed Guadeloupean and French heritage. #Malaka #HipHop #France #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172357

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Manal – Chouka On "Chouka", Moroccan singer Manal chases a man over raï-tempo dance-pop, in Darija and French, calling him a Tiffany diamond and a fast car. #Manal #Morocco #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172313

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Syna Awel – Incantation Franco-Algerian singer Syna Awel performs outdoors in the summer sun. "Incantation" closes her session, turning an afternoon set into a night-time jam with seven musicians. #SynaAwel #Amazigh #DailyDiscovery rhythmpassport.com/?p=172310

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Habib Koité & Sura Susso – Londi Kora and guitar so close you could take them for one. Gambian kora player Sura Susso and Malian guitarist Habib Koité share "Londi", the Mandinka word for knowledge, sung in Mandinka and Wolof. #SuraSusso #Hab rhythmpassport.com/?p=172309

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Rhythm Passport @rhythmpassport.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Daily Discovery: Cisco Pema – Desilusión "Desilusión" takes an expectation as it loses its shape and reality takes over. Cisco Pema moves past the letdown into acceptance, without melodrama. An Argentine bassist and singer, Buenos Aires raised, Berlin based. rhythmpassport.com/?p=172308

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