Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Keinemusik’s ‘Pay To Play’ feat. Bell-Towers explores the concept of the ear worm quite literally – eeep

KEINEMUSIK as a going sonic concern came into being around four years ago, when Berlin electronica producers Adam Port, &Me and Rampa – born Adam Polaszek, André Boadu and Gregor…

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Tracks: Ring in the shortest day with the fine English folk of Craig Fortnam’s ‘Witchy Grid’/’God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’

IT’S BEEN a productive and busy year all round for Craig Fortnam, the man known best perhaps for his role in the English contemporary music ensemble, North Sea Radio Orchestra;…

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News: Bitchin Bajas bring their Sun Ra moogfest out on the road Stateside and in Europe

COOPER CRAIN’S side-alley Moog buccaneers Bitchin Bajas are taking their their latest album, a re-exploration of the works of Sun Ra purely for synth and keyboard, out on the road…

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Track: PYNGU’s ‘Everytime’ brings uplifting, bittersweet dance-pop futurism to the Christmas run-in

SOMETIMES it’s best to keep it short and sweet and let a track speak for itself. PYNGU is the reincarnation of the German DJ, artist and producer who could formerly…

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See: Oan Kim – ‘Mambo’: the Parisian composer splices an indie-jazz noir that lets the sax tell the story

FORMERLY a member of the romantic, cinematic Parisian quartet Film Noir and also of the lower-slung David Lynch rock ‘n’ roll outfit Chinese Army, Paris-based saxophonist and composer Oan Kim…

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Not Forgotten: The Jasmine Minks – ‘The Jasmine Minks’: on older brothers, cassette pets and discovering the world of Creation

MY ROUTE into The Jasmine Minks and the whole world of early Creation Records – Slaughter Joe, Biff Bang Pow, Revolving Paint Dream and so many others? Mine was the…

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See: Nell & The Flaming Lips drop their take on the Nick Cave classic, ‘Red Right Hand’

IT’S the latest brilliantly wonky full-covers project from Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and the boys, whose new heady fwend is budding Canada-via-Yorkshire songsmith Nell, in the company of whom they’ve…

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Track: Drew Smith – ‘Whose News’ feat. Isla Craig: the Toronto scene brings us another gem of blissful, ambient synthpop-triphop

BESIDES his other bow-strings playing in Toronto power-poppers Bunny and the heart-hookin’ bubblegum fun of The Bicycles, Toronto’s Drew Smith also fashions a lovely ambient synthpop under his birth name:…

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See: Belfast’s The John Andrews Band bring the skiffly punk of the jailtime stomper, ‘On The Run’

JOHN ANDREWS, the Belfast singer-songwriter who fronts the band which takes his name, isn’t someone who’s taken a trip to the wild side just for edgelord slumming kicks in order…

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News: As one heavenly body sets, another rises: Khruangbin and Leon Bridges announce their ‘Texas Moon’ EP – watch the video for ‘B-Side’

TO FLIP the orbs from the bright orange to the white, and after that impossibly catchy previous A in particular, “Texas Sun”, Khruangbin are once again joining forces with Leon…

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