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Album Review: HIGH ACE to Unveil Stunning Debut Album Release “Snowcap Menace”
Every now and then, a full-length LP/CD comes along that stops you dead in your tracks. Snowcap Menace is unmistakably one such album. The brainchild of Australian folk-rock husband & wife duo, Jeff Lang and Alison Ferrier, Snowcap Menace is a virtual cornucopia of the pair’s musical influences and varying styles, ranging from blues, ethno-folk …
Premiere: Amine Mesnaoui and Labelle release new visuals for Bleu Noir; watch it here first
Taken from their forthcoming album African Prayers, out April 1st on the Lo Recordings imprint, is the new single Blue Noir from Berlin and Réunion based duo Amine Mesnaoui and Labelle, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere the Stephen Talneau directed video right here on Backseat Mafia today. The LP its taken from …
Album Review: Meridean Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna- Paz en la Terra
Nothing about the Meridean Brothers is as you would expect unless you are prepared for the unexpected. The name might suggest a collective but in the studio the ‘Brothers’ focal point is the mercurial talents of Colombian composer and multi- instrumentalist Eblis Alvarez. As an established player in Bogata’s energetic experimental scene Alvarez has always …
Live Review: Nubiyan Twist – The Forum, Sheffield 1.10.2021
It’s a pet hate of mine, people referring to seemingly everything they do as a journey. Join me on my journey to becoming a plumber/singer/footballer fills the internet and TV, as i scoff and say to Mrs Mafia “Me going to Tesco is journey, me driving to work is journey – that (whatever it might …
Album Review: South African be-bop trailblazer Kippie Moeketsi’s Blue Stompin receives long-awaited reissue
Over forty years on since its original release in 1977 those intrepid sound seekers at We Are Busy Bodies have just re-issued, in partnership with Rashid Vally’s seminal South African Jazz label As- Shams /The Sun, Kippie Moeketsi/Hal Singer’s ‘Blue Stompin’. The album’s title track and centrepiece highlights an intriguing jazz intersection from the two …
Track: Quantic & Nidia Gongora- new track, Balada Borracha, plus album announcement
The story goes that musician, producer and global fusion pioneer Will ‘Quantic’ Hudson first heard Colombian singer songwriter Nidia Gongora’s singular voice through the wall of his Cali apartment busting out from his neighbour’s CD player. So we can be forever thankful for next door’s exquisite taste in repeat plays and the low grade partitions …
Track: Las Calakas – Morena
Cumbia fusión band Las Calakas, have announced their debut full length album will be out in Spring 2022, after signing to Los Angeles based label My Grito Industries. They have shared a track from the album – Morena. The band had this to say about the news: “We have been working on this album for about 2 years …
Album Review: Cochemea- ‘Vol II: Baca Sewa’
What is roots music? Well Cochemea Gastelum’s earthy new album, ‘Vol II: Baca Sewa’ out via Daptone from 16th July, would pretty much nail it if you’re searching for definitives. Roots has nothing to do with retro, it’s not about seeking to sound like the past, it’s about connection and inspiration, exploring a personal heritage …
Exclusive: Alice SK and Muca record new single Until We Meet Again live in session for Backseat Mafia
London based Brazilian musician and producer Murillo Sguillaro is better known as Muca, is back with a slice of summery bossa with his new single ‘Until We Meet Again’. It’s a collaboration with Alice SK, with whom he worked with on her debut EP, and felt her vocal would perfectly suit his new music. The …
Album Review: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – ‘We’re OK. But we’re lost anyway’
Is it a band, is it a group, is it a collective or an ensemble- no it’s the one and only Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, the multi-European makers of the most essential music that may just have passed you by.Revolving around the mercurial bassist/composer Vincent Bertholet and emerging from the Geneva avant music scene …