poetry
TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient. It’s all helmed by Indianapolis producer Stuart Hyatt, who began the series – the forthcoming album is the …
TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient. It’s all helmed by Indianapolis producer Stuart Hyatt, who began the series – the forthcoming album is …
Track: ALA.NI And Adrian Younge – ‘Lament for Emmett Till’
Memorialising the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death (August 28th), ALA.NI is releasing the Adrian Younge produced single ‘Lament for Emmett Till’. The song is a reimagined version of ALA.NI’s sparse, achingly-beautiful song released earlier this summer on July 28th, the eve of what would have been Emmett Till’s 79th birthday. In ‘Lament for Emmett Till’ …
Track: Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
Along with announcing a much anticipated UK live tour, Ghostpoet has also unveiled the haunting video to the title track of his critically latest album, “I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep” we reviewed here Now comes the beautifully strange and disorienting video, directed by Thomas James and featuring a funeral of sorts, from …
Track: IDLES – Mr Motivator
IDLES lead the way in explosive passionate punk, and we here at Backseat Mafia have always closely followed their upward trajectory with the greatest of joy. Now, deep in the arms of general world misery, they have released a thundering, joyous single ‘Mr Motivator’ replete with a video that that shows while we are apart, …
INTERVIEW: One Day After School / Dead Sea Poems soundtrack
On September 30th West Yorkshire Post-Rock influenced band One Day, After School will perform their specially commissioned soundtrack to poet Simon Armitage’s The Dead Sea Poems. We caught up with songwriter Dean Freeman in the midst of a tough schedule of writing and rehearsing to ask how, and why. We see lots of bands writing …
Track: Kojey Radical – Open Hand
We’ve long been fans of rising poet/rapper Kojey Radical, evidenced by the blistering stripped back session he did for us earlier in the year. After supporting Young Fathers on their UK tour, he’s performed recently on Channel 4’s ‘Four to the Floor’. Picking up admirers such as Paloma Faith, Maverick Sabre and GoldLink along the …
Video: Kojey Radical records an exclusive version of Bambu exclusively for Backseat Mafia
On tour with Young Fathers currently, we managed to catch up with Ghanaian-British poet Kojey Radical who recorded an exclusive version of his latest track Bambu (I Don’t Really Worry ‘Bout Nothin’). Its a follow up to last years Dear Daisy: Opium EP, and sees the performer, in our video at least, thoroughly compelling – …