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NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’
GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her last album, Pastoral, held a mirror up to the steadfast old folk tales and traditions of Merrie England, fucked that mirror into unimaginable and truer …
NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”
LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost Map as part of the label’s Postmap Club: a proper, old-fashioned club with real actual postcards, badges, first dibs on things, newsletters, remixes, exclusive tracks, …
TRACK: Samuel Sharp announces album for the new year; hear ‘Catching Leaves’
BRITISH leftfield saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp, who has previously partially hidden his light under the recording name Lossy – and whose lovely, dubby, impressionistic single release “Fireworks From The Tower” we had the pleasure of covering here – has announced a new album, Patterns Various, which he’ll be gracing our senses with come mid-February; …
NEWS: TAAHLIAH makes history, scooping twice at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards
THE ELEVENTH Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) ceremony was held – with the privations of the virus this year – online on Wednesday gone, November 18th. This year’s virtual ceremony to recognise the best new Scottish music was streamed globally via Twitch, with viewers from across Europe, the USA and even Brazil. Radio DJ and …
NEWS: The Orielles announce live stream show from Hebden Bridge
HALIFAX’s lovely, all-conquering The Orielles are determined to bring a little light into our pervading winter with the announcement that they’re putting on a live-stream show from The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, just down valley from their home patch, at 8pm on Saturday, December 5th. It rounds off a year that saw them drop their acclaimed …
News: Heavy Psych set to release Vol 3 of their Doom Sessions featuring -(16)- and Grime
Following in the wake of ‘Doom Sessions Vol. 1‘ featuring Conan and Deadsmoke and ‘Doom Sessions Vol. 2‘ featuring Acid Mammoth and 1782. Label Heavy Psych have announced Vol. 3 in the series with five angry, aggressive and previously unreleased tracks by Relapse Records stalwarts -(16)- and Italy’s sludge mongers Grime. The artwork was designed by Branca Studio. -(16)- comment: “We are super …
TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!
MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited for the release of his second album of the year, in cahoots with The Night Mail, Thunderclouds – not least because we gets to hear …
News: Z2 Comics and Graham Coxon present a new graphic novel & Soundtrack ‘Superstate’
Z2 Comics today announces Superstate, an all-new high concept vision of the future. Devised by British musician and artist Graham Coxon (Blur) and featuring the best of 15 graphic artists, Superstate is a compendium graphic novel featuring a new original fully-illustrated score from Coxon. This unique music and comic book pairing also features cover artwork by Coxon himself and …
SEE: Josephine Foster’s take on Daniel Blumberg’s ‘On & On’: reinterpretations album next month
YOU HAVE to say, Daniel Blumberg is one of the absolutely most interesting, unconventional songwriters to emerge on the British scene in many a long year. His album from a month or two back, On & On, pretty much has it all: confessional, heartfelt beauty; melodic simplicity; outside-the-pocket impro composition, taking the songs right to …
TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Invention Of The Moon’: fragile wonder from Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator
YOU MAY or may not be enough of an aficionado of modern composition to have come across Rutger Hoedemaekers, who’s recently signed to FatCat’s superb leftfield and experimental modern composition imprint, 130701 – but if this particular area of our musical landscape grabs you by the heart, you soon will be and frankly, damn well …