Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Mark Shippy & Alex Cunningham – ‘Clear Walkway’: US Maple guitarist brings the improv for guitar and violin

AFICIONADOS of the free music, this way please: Mark Shippy, former guitarist with the legendary Chicago noise-rock voyagers U.S. Maple, has got together with St Louis, Missouri violin improviser Alex…

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Track: Mattia Cupelli reveals a dark ambient aesthetic with the eerie prayer call of ‘MONOLITH’

ROMAN composer Mattia Cupelli likes to play on the borders of modern classical, electronica, ambient and soundtrack elements, which has stood him in good stead over nearly a decade of…

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Track: Trippers & Askers – ‘Chance’s Wake’: warming, spiritual Americana lays out the path towards an album drawing on the near-dystopian classic, ‘The Parable Of The Sower’

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a Californian African-American science fiction author whose 1993 novel, Parable Of The Sower, has rippled out with staying power across culture, with its tale of the…

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See: Ólafur Arnalds and Benjamin Hardman’s short film for the cyclical beauty of ‘New Grass’, capturing the macro wonder of moss

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has collaborated visually with the photographer and film-maker Benjamin Hardman to produce a short film full of natural wonder to accompany the track “New Grass”, taken…

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See: Eartheater – ‘Volcano’: a tenebrous, glittering, elemental pop gains dramatic visuals

THE QUEENS-based multimedia artist Eartheater has shared the stunning and elemental visuals for “Volcano”, a track taken from her critically acclaimed album examining rebirth, life, death and all points in…

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Track: Machinedrum – ‘Star (feat. Mono/Poly & Tanerelle, Shelley FKA DRAM Remix)’: tweaked and tucked with sultry results

WITH his latest album, A View Of U, for home of all things glorious and wonky and beat-driven, Ninja Tune, being lauded across the wide sphere of electronic music, North…

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Track: Tape Waves – ‘Tired’: beguiling dream pop outta North Carolina making all the right noises

TAPE WAVES are a rather lovely dream pop duo hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, who are leading a slow and sleepy dance for us towards their June album with a…

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See: Throwing Snow – Halos: generative, organic visuals and chattering electronica connect

ROSS TONES, the electronic voyager who records for Houndstooth as Throwing Snow, has dropped a video for new single “Halos”, the latest intelligent bodymover to be lifted from his forthcoming…

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Track: Bored At My Grandma’s House – ‘China Doll (demo)’: Leeds dreampopper drops lo-fi confession ahead of Come Play With Me’s new compilation

EN ROUTE to Come Play With Me’s new compilation album, Side By Side, which is out in a month, the grassroots Leeds organisation which is doing the good work in…

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