Spoken word
Track: Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith – Knowledge Of The Self
With their new album Peradam due for release on September 4th, 2020 via Bella Union, Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith have shared new track “Knowledge Of The Self” and an accompanying video that features editing and a visual collage by Anastasia Ivanova. Of the track, Patti Smith says: “We have to, in order to be free of all of the things that we are attached to, even ideas of ourselves, …
Premiere: Jack Cheshire – Miradors
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Fractal Future Plays’ out 27/11/2020 via Loose Tongue Records, Miradors is the new single from Jack Cheshire, out on 21st August, and we’re absolutely delighted to premiere it here today on Backseat Mafia. The title of the song comes from Malcolm Lowrys 1947 novel ‘Under the Volcano’, when the books protagonist Geoffrey …
Album Review: LYR- Call in the Crash Team
The debut album by LYR is an eclectic and ambitious new project, derived from a trio of producer Patrick Pearson, musician Richard Walters and poet Simon Armitage. Besides a slew of solo records and writing for the likes of Gabrielle Aplin and Alison Moyet, Walters previously worked with Simon Armitage on his solo track Redwoods; …
SEE: Belle and Sebastian share Collaborative fan project ‘Protecting the Hive’
In a way to find something positive during this unusual period Belle and Sebastian reached out to fans for a two part collaboration project entitled – ‘Protecting The Hive’. The project collates lyrics contributed by fans at the bands invitation, about their thoughts and feelings while in self isolation, and collated into a spoken-word musical …
See: Mike Garry & Joe Duddell ST ANTHONY – An ode to Anthony H. Wilson
“I first heard St. Anthony the day before our Jodrell Bank gig in July 2013. I thought it sounded fucking great“ – Bernard Sumner, New Order. Anthony H. Wilson. Do you really need me to say anymore? As a TV presenter he championed many up and coming bands that wouldn’t have got a chance if …
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 – …