Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: Yann Tiersen announces an album for August, ‘Kerber’; see the video for a first track, ‘Ker Al Loch’

BRETON composer Yann Tiersen, the man behind the soundtrack for Amélie and Good Bye Lenin! and modern classical genius has announced he is to release a new album, Kerber, for…

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Track: Last Days of April – ‘Alone’: a readymade and prescient fuzzpop anthem

STOCKHOLM’S lovely Last Days of April, with singer and guitarist Karl Larsson the ever-present guiding light, are firing into their quarter-century anniversary year with a tenth album of high-octane guitar…

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See: The beautiful animation for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Sunlight In My Room’ ahead of his second stunning LP of the year

HE REALLY is spoiling us, is Cheval Sombre, the transporting, ethereal folk-shoegaze guising of Chris Porpora; who, not content with the hushed emotional whirlwind of Time Waits For No One,…

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Track: GoGo Penguin celebrate the release of ‘GGP/RMX’ with a video for the lush Cornelius remix – and launch a beer

MANCHESTER instrumental trio GoGo Penguin have released an absolutely superb, eclectic remix album, GGP/RMX on Blue Note today, bringing together talents such as Squarepusher, Clark, 808 State, James Holden, Machinedrum…

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Track: Ishmael Ensemble – ‘Morning Chorus’: Bristol collective sans frontières deliver intelligence and lushness

BRISTOL jazz explorers Ishmael Ensemble are flexing their embouchures and are ready to step on and out from their acclaimed debut set from two years back, A State of Flow,…

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Track: Glassmasterer – ‘Turn On The Big Machines’: an old-skool acid banger from the eclectic Glaswegian

GLASSMASTERER, the obscure musical reproduction process adopted as the operational codename for eclectic Glaswegian musician Lewis Bigham, has today dropped just a teensy bit of a banger, “Turn On The…

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Track: Louien – ‘Fire’: a track of ethereal grace teases for next month’s EP

WITH her No Tomorrow EP due out a month from now, Norwegian indie-folkie Louien has one final come-hither single to share with us, after the bold country rock of “Better…

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See: The video for Alasdair Roberts og Völvur’s ‘The Green Chapel’: fine folk in Nordic collaboration heralds a new set for Drag City

HE’S GRACED us with a very Northern European and delicious take on introspective folk since that trio of lovely albums, The Rye Bears A Poison, Daylight Saving and The Night…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles freewheel us through great handpicked tracks

BILL MACKAY, the Chicago-based guitarist, improviser of note and all-round scion of six strings, sure loves to enter into a two-way conversation with other artists with reliably beautiful results; witness…

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See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Maiden’s Call’: wood-smoky acid folk beauty from returning Cambridge collective

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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