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New Music: Summers Sons – The Rain
Summers Sons return with their second full length album ‘The Rain‘, their most heartfelt record to date, ‘The Rain‘ was recorded in the wake of devastating family bereavement and explores some of the darkest themes we’ve heard from the duo. Summers Sons are brothers Turt (vocals) and Slim (Production), Summers Sons two previous projects ‘Undertones’ and …
Premiere: See the new video for Skrontch Music – Elergy
Skrontch Music is the project of New Orleans’ musician Byron Asher. They are a large multi-genre, multi-generational ensemble who sit within the New Orleans jazz tradition, but bring to it a sense of a modern big band sound with nods to quasi-classical, minimalist writing. We are delighted to be premiering the new video for the …
Track: Ronin Arkestra – Cosmic Collisions
Mark de Clive Lowe, the Japanese/New Zealand composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has brought together some of the major players in the Japanese jazz and electronic scene to form his new project, Ronin Arkestra. It features members of Kyoto Jazz Sextet, WONK, Cro-Magnon, Root Soul, Sleepwalker, Sauce81 and Kyoto Jazz Massive, with Mark commenting “The members …
Premiere: Axel Filip releases video for No Me Cascoteen el Rancho
A stalwart of the Buenos Aires jazz scene, drummer Alex Filip has released a video for No Me Cascoteen el Rancho, taken from his album El Equilibrio Secreto de Las Cosas. he’s drafted in the main men from the local scene in Juan Bayon, Nicolas Boccanera and trumpeter Sebastian Greschuk appear, alongside Camila Nebbia and …
Premiere: The Side Project – Redbone (feat. Alita Moses)
Beginning in the subways oF New York, Saxophones quartet The Side Project have Gomez on to perform at notable NYC venues Andy further afield, saw well as touring and recording. Bringing a funk to whatever they do, as we’ll as a side order of jazz, they’ve recorded their version of the Childish Gambino track Redbone., …
Premiere: Sebastián Greschuk releases new video for Boomerang
Taken from his forthcoming album Paisaje, out on July 26th via ears&eyes records, Argentinian jazz trumpeter Sebastian Greschuk has release a new video for Boomerang, and we’re delighted to premiere it here on backseatmafia.com Part of the burgeoning Buenos Aires jazz scene, Greschuk is joined on the record by pianist Nicolas Boccanera, bassist Sebastian de …
Album Review: Hackney Colliery Band – Collaborations Vol. 1
I have to declare my prejudices. One of the best nights of my life was spent in the company of the Hackney Colliery Band (HCB). We turned up disgracefully early, and watched as the room went from empty to crushingly full, and then the boys blasted through own material and their legendary covers of Toto’s …
See: Blue Lab Beats release video for Hi There
We’ve already had our say on ‘Hi There’, the new single from Blue Lab Beats’ upcoming EP ‘Vibe Central’, which drops on June 28th via AllPoints / Blue Adventure. Needsless to say, it were very much in favour of their squelchy instrumental jazz funk, with space rock guitar solos and this summertime vibe that cleared …
See: Oscar Jerome reveals new video for Gravity, plus UK tour dates
On the back of a string of support slots around the UK for Kamasi Washington, Oscar Jerome has shared a new single, ‘Gravitate’, and released a video of him playing it live in the studio. It’s his first release since signing to Caroline International and comes ahead of his biggest headline show to date at …
Remembered : Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone was one of those characters that seemed to have stepped out of an E.L. Doctorow novel, or an Our Gang comedy. Playing Tin Pan Alley shuffles and ragtime ballads on the guitar and whistling like a drunken bum with just a swig of whiskey left in his flask. Except instead of appearing out …