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Interview: we talk to Jean-Phi Dary & Jeff Mills about their collaboration ‘The Paradox’ and discuss the new album: Counter Active
Paradox: a doubtful statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. When a spark ignites between two musicians, the state of flow can be achieved. Usually, a fleeting sensation, but when captured, it is an unstoppable force. The coming together of Jeff Mills and Jean-Phi Dary came …
Album review: Samuel Sharp – ‘Patterns Various’: diaristic, timeless sax explorations
Patterns Various sits in a emerging tradition of very beautiful single-instrument essays; a very personal journey, and a very English one, captures its moments so well that people will be sure to revisit it for decades to come
Album Review: Femi Kuti + Made Kuti – Legacy +
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no afrobeat scholar, but there’s something undeniably enticing about a double album calling itself Legacy+ that’s attached to the Kuti name. I don’t even think this is necessarily limited or limiting, either, because the work of Fela Kuti is something that you’re likely aware of even if …
Premiere: Colin Cannon releases new video for ‘Ing Right I’
Taken from his new album ‘McGoldrick’, out February 26th via Infrequent Seams, ‘Ing Right I’, is the new song from Colin Cannon, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it on Backseat Mafia today. As with the previous track from the album Cannon released, Get Up, it travels through Jazz, fusion, post-rock, electronica to …
Album Review: Coma World – Coma World
The London nu-jazz/electronic scene is one ecosystem that does more than sustain itself. From the Steamdown/Trinity/Deptford/Greenwich source point to the hubbub around Hackney’s Total Refreshment Centre to the outflow from vibrant labels like Walthamstow’s Byrd Out, it’s a community that continues to create through crossovers, connections and collaborations. Cue yet more evidence of the surge, …
Track: DJINN release details of new album; hear ‘Love Divine’
AN AMALGAM of Goat and Hills members, two of the multitude of unique, almost fantastical Swedish psych bands, DJINN recently released a new track “Love Divine”, which features on upcoming album Transmission. This follows swift consecutive releases: their self-titled album in 2019 and the Avant de Servir cassette, released on Swedish label Zeon Recordings last …
Premiere: Arnan Raz releases new single, 7 Days
Arnan Raz, member of the ‘The Side Project’, and acclaimed Saxopohonist, has drafted in an eclectic band made up of Saxophonist Eyal Hai (NY/Israel) trumpet player Hillel Salem (NY/Israel), Percussionists Kofi Hunter (U.S.A) and Joel Mateo (Puerto Rico), and bass player Scott Colberg (U.S.A) for his third foray into solo recordings. The result is 7 …
Track: Dave Manington – ‘Strike The Harp’
A reimagining of something old into something new is one thing, but a completely original re-invention is another.. One thing I’ve learned whilst talking to musicians is that, being a musician myself, it’s never easy to describe your own music. Luckily, when speaking to Dave Manington, one of London’s staple jazz bassists and composers, I …
TRACK: Pino Palladino, Blake Mills – ‘Just Wrong’ – joint album for Impulse! in March
WHEN it was initially sketched out as project, Notes With Attachments, Welsh bass legend Pino Palladino and Californian songwriter and producer Blake Mills’ forthcoming album for New Deal/Impulse!, was all set to be a Pino solo affair; but, in the way of these things, especially when these things feature two wholly open-minded creatives, it grew, …
NEWS: Gearbox Records to release EP of Don Cherry rarities; hear ‘The Ambassador From Greenland’
LONDON’S Gearbox Recotds is carrying the torch and keeping the analogue fires burning from its own bespoke production facility in the capital, has unearthed some proper jazz treasure: a quartet of sides that Don Cherry cut for Danish Radio in the mid-Sixties; and the label is issuing ’em on wax, strickly mono, 45rpm. How about …