John Parry, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: LA vocalist/composer Sharada Shashidhar announces new album ‘Soft Echoes’ with the succulent, sensitive title track.

You may have been lucky to have caught a glimpse of LA based vocalist/composer/producer Sharada Shashidhar’s debut EP ‘Rahu’ a few years ago. Here was a musician bringing something different…

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Album Review: Belong – ‘Realistic IX’: The illusive ambient-shoegaze duo return, their deceptive power undiminished.

Things may come and things may go but the shoegaze dance still unravels. Thirty years on from a time when Catherine Wheel were possibly the most important thing in the…

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Album Review: Passepartout Duo And Inoyama Land – ‘Radio Yugawara’ : A sublime collaboration delivers a fresh and fulfilling ambient statement.

Living with music, living through music, living inside music are descriptions which could all get thrown around when trying to capture Passepartout Duo’s relationship with their sound art. The sonic…

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Album Review : Harvestman –‘Triptych Part Two’ : A pulsating second album in Steve Von Till’s ambitious, post-metal trilogy.

Officially released on 21st July to coincide with the Buck Moon, Steve Von Till (aka Harvestman) delivers ‘Part Two’ of his ambitious ‘Triptych’ album cycle (‘Part One’ coincided with April’s…

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Album Review: Olivier Cong –‘Tropical Church’: a significant ambient hymn to the heart of a city.

Hot town, summer in the city“, The Lovin’ Spoonful’s immortal sixties pop hit may not be a song that will immediately ping into mind when listening to ‘Tropical Church’, the…

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Track/Video : Steve Von Till /Harvestman delivers the haunted ’Galvanised and Torn Open’ ahead of his elliptical album ‘Triptych: Part Two’.

So a few days until the Buck Moon on 21st July means that the release of the second instalment in the Harvestman ‘Triptych’ series is similarly imminent. This three album…

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Album Review: Colin Fisher – Suns of the Heart : Spectacular sound sculptures with an internal energy.

“Distinctly gifted musician”, “Canadian mainstay”, “master sonic storyteller” are all quotable snippets which journos have rustled up for multi-instrumentalist and composer Colin Fisher. But as you dig into his sprawling…

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Track: Sound artist extraordinaire, Michael Scott Dawson previews new album with the achingly poignant ‘Present Day’.

You could say that Saskatchewan sound artist and producer Michael Scott Dawson is a key contributor to the We Are Busy Bodies catalogue. Since 2020 he’s gifted the label three…

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Album Review : Hypnodrone Ensemble – ‘The Problem Is in the Sender – Do Not Tamper with the Receiver’: An epic drone-rock statement from the Berlin-based collective.

So here’s the real sound of the psychedelic underground filtering through once more. Beyond retro, pastiche or nostalgia, forward thinking, lifeblood music that connects the pathways of cosmic rock, kosmische,…

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Album Review: Àbáse –‘Awakening’: Stunning spiritual jazz and beyond from the prolific producer/instrumentalist.

It doesn’t seem that long since Hungarian keyboarding producer whizz Szabolcs Bognár was premiering his ambitious Àbáse project with the extensive, celebratory ‘Laroyê’. Released at the end of 2021, it…

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