Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Glenn Fallows and Mark Trefell – ‘Faith In Time’: Brighton duo bring the louche soundtrack funk fo’ yo’ soul

ARE YOU a sucker for an imaginary soundtrack, film-score funk? Hell, I am. Ever since the days of Barry Adamson’s inestimably influential Moss Side Story, the score for a Manchester…

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Track: FEET get all bookish with the sweetly ragged guitars of ‘Library’ ahead of their August EP

NOW WHOLLY ensconced in what they call a ‘hive mind’ situation in North London, and with their new EP, Walking Machine, poised to be set free on a guitar-lovin’ public…

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See: Logan Lynn & Bitch take ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ out for a spin in the dark electro pulse of the dancefloor to celebrate Kill Rock Stars’ 30th birthday

HOW THE hourglass casts its sand; believe it or not, and I’m struggling with this, 2021 actually marks 30 years – 30! – of releases from Portland, Oregon’s Kill Rock…

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Track: Ailsa Tully announces an August EP for Dalliance and reveals tour dates; hear the lead single, ‘Greedy’

AILSA TULLY, the rising Welsh singer-songwriter who’s no stranger to these pages, has announced her new EP, Holy Isle, will be out mid-August on Dalliance Recordings, and has dropped the…

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See: Experimental clarinettist Jeremiah Cymerman pays meditative tribute with ‘From The Metaphysical To The Transcendental (For Bill Smith)’ – his album’s out in August

JEREMIAH CYMERMAN is a producer and clarinettist who’s been working within the New York avant-garde music scene for nigh on two decades now, and more specifically where the tectonic plates…

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See: Alasdair Roberts gathers us round for a solo rendition of ‘Orison Of Union’, from next month’s album for Drag City

SERENDIPITY is such a lovely thing to encounter, especially when it leads to a joining of courses and like minds finding each other. Responding to the invitation of Norwegian fiddler Hans…

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See: Liars are back in the game, still have a ‘Big Appetite’ for hallucinatory incantation ahead of their August album

LIARS have always been a pretty unique presence in our musical landscape, gnawing and needling away at the bones of rock as the whole edifice collapses, from right back when…

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See: Mumble Tide get out in the sticks for the glorious, sleepy wonk-pop of ‘Breakfast’

AWWW man, Bristol’s Mumble Tide, now they’re properly lovely. The wonky guitar pop duo of Gina Leonard and Ryan Rogers, who met when Gina put an advert up on Gumtree…

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See: A discarded bass string finds new life in the stop-motion tale of Peace Flag Ensemble’s ‘Hilma af Klint in Ab’

SASKATCHEWAN free jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble, who like to free up a little while keeping it flowing and melodious, are set to release their first venture into long-playing recordings…

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Track: Clark releases ‘Suspension Reservoir (Air Version)’ – a new take from the mini-series, ‘Lisey’s Story’

WITH his first album for his new home Deutsche Grammophon, Playground On A Lake, now out in the world – and a far-reaching, ambitious record it is, too, spread over…

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