Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: The Orb’s Alex Paterson announces autobiography and new label; hear Sedibus’ ‘TOI 1338b’

DEEP space ambient techno overlord Alex Paterson, the good doctor of The Orb himself, has just announced a whole cluster of projects to take us into 2021. Fellow astral travellers:…

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Track: SORBET feat. Maija Sofia – ‘I Heard His Scythe’: Irish producer conceives of the purgatory we’re in on ambitious new project

NEED a palate freshener? SORBET is the new guising and musical project of Irish producer Chris W Ryan, who can enumerate on his CV the scouring rock of Just Mustard;…

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News: Nordic country singer Louien will release an EP in June; hear a first track, ‘Better Woman’

LOUIEN we touched base with just a matter of days back, in an ensemble sense, when she lined up alongside Siv Jakobsen and The Northern Belle for the Nordicana loveliness…

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Track: The Fuzzy Nerds – ‘Grasshopper’: Greek post-rock nugget gets a new video

WHAT do we know of The Fuzzy Nerds. the band whose excellently quietLOUDquiet song, “Grasshopper”, we’re taking a look at herein? Not absolutely loads, we’ll freely admit, but a scour…

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Track: Mint Julep’s ‘Pulse’ is a drop of electro-shoegaze brilliance

MINT JULEP, the halcyon, dreamy musical confection of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (aka Goldmind), are to release a new album, In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep, on Western Vinyl on…

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Premiere: See the video for Dragon Welding’s ‘Lights Behind The Eyes’: The Wolfhounds’ Andy Golding steps into ambient guitar wonder

DRAGON WELDING; a great name, redolent of fire and the elements, of flicker and sulphur, things made and remade in heat. A great name. And once you learn it’s the…

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EP REVIEW: Głós – ‘Swimming In Colors’: monumental ambience from Affin

Głós' first EP for Affin is three whole different, astonishingly enveloping sound worlds. Let's hope he records an album in this vein; it'd wipe the floor with your consciousness. Intelligent ambience with incredible design and edge, it's one hell of an opening statement for an artist to make for his new home

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News: The latest Late Night Tales comes from Ninja’s Jordan Rakei; hear his Jeff Buckley cover

LATE NIGHT TALES, the free-roaming mix series for mind-expanding chilling most recently brought to us by Khruangbin, has announced its next beguiling instalment, and its first for 2021; it’ll be…

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News: Alessandro Cortini announces new album for Mute, ‘SCURO CHIARO’, in June; hear the thrilling, scouring ‘Chiaroscuro’

ALESSANDRO CORTINI, otherwise, one would suspect, very much brought to your knowledge as a member of Nine Inch Nails, is to release an album for Mute in June entitled SCURO…

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See: Dialect – ‘Flame Not Stone’: humanist, wayward and open ambient experimenta

WE’VE covered Dialect before in recent weeks, this outfit being the wholly otherly, seductive, beguiling, blissful and unusual project of Liverpool’s Andrew PM Hunt. That was a month or so…

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