Sessions
Exclusive: Jordan Lehning records stunning At Home Session of Little Lie for Backseat Mafia
Nashville based producer, composer and singer-songwriter Jordan Lehning has done a wonderful lockdown At Home Sesssion for us of ‘Little Lie’, taken from his recent album Little Idols. The album was written in the style of a short film, telling the tale of an affair between a married woman and a single man that unfolds …
Exclusive: Emma Kupa records ‘Nothing at All’ live in session for Backseat Mafia
We’ve long been in the thrall of Emma Kupa, through all of her incarnations and all the collaborators she’s worked with over the years. Pretty much the first thing we ever wrote on the site for a long lost and forgotten series was something on Sheffield indie darlings Standard Fare, but since then she’s gone …
Exclusive: Lindsay Munroe records ‘Split’ live in session for Backseat Mafia
Manchester singer-songwriter Lindsay Munroe recently released her debut EP ‘Our Heaviness‘, which caught the ear of, amongst others, Sharon Van Etten, while we loved River taken from EP. We were delighted that Lindsay agreed to record one of the other stand out tracks from the EP – Split, live in session for us here at …
Exclusive: Fake Turin’s record At Home Session of ‘Legs’ for Backseat Mafia
A while ago we premiered Leg’s, Fake Turins latest single. We were enamoured by the indie rock of the backing over this intelligent spoken word poetry over the top, and so we were delighted when Fake Turins agreed to do a session version of the song for us. Although a collective of audio visual artists …
Exclusive: Tommy Ashby does Blood Wolf Moon live in session for Backseat Mafia
We fell for Scottish singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby’s recent Blood Wolf Moon single, its aching melancholy set against this bubbling acoustic guitar, so we were absolutely delighted when he agreed to do an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia and record the track, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Everywhere is Home’, out this …
Exclusive: The Ghost of Helags record Chemistry live in session for Backseat Mafia
The Ghost Of Helags, aka singer songwriter Teresa Woischiski and producer John Alexander Ericson, have already attracted out attention with their brilliant track Chemistry, this dark nuances synth-pop track full of emotion and brilliant melodies, so we were delighted that the Swedish duo, now living in Berlin, agreed to record the track for an ‘At …
Exclusive: Karima Francis – Orange Rose (In Session)
Blackpool singer-songwriter Karima Francis returned recently with the gorgeous Orange Rose. It’s a song about how mental health can send shockwaves through even the most intimate and entwined relationships. Of the track, she says, “In a world where we sometimes feel we can’t speak out, we tend to take it the worst out on people …
Exclusive: Pete Judge records West-Running Brook in session for Backseat Mafia
Just out is the new solo piano album – Piano 2, from Bristol trumpeter, composer, multi-instrumentalist Pete Judge, the sometime member of acclaimed post-jazz outfit Get The Blessing. It’s a follow up to his 2019 Piano album, and both feature these rather beautiful little jazz / neo-classical vignettes or miniatures. One of the stand out …
Exclusive: James Holt records a three track session for Backseat Mafia
We were very taken with Bolton singer-songwriter James Holt’s recent single ‘Pendulum’, so we we’re absolutely delighted that he agreed to record an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia. He’s recorded three tracks – Pendulum and recent single Mystery Girl bookend a lovely version of Albert Hammond’s It never rains in Southern …
Exclusive: Out of the Woods – I remember you (in session)
Ditte Grube, aka Out Of The Woods is a Danish singer-songwriter who is gearing up for the release of her debut album Birds and Beast, and has done of the the songs from the album exclusively for us her at Backseat Mafia, shot in and around her garden in Aarhus. She found music, or her …