John Parry, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Peace Flag Ensemble – Astral Plains : Shimmering electro-acoustic jazz for wide horizons.

The first time you hear the music of experimental jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble, you sense that it will be good for you. This is a band that make soundscapes,…

View Post

View Post

Track/Video : New age travelling band TENGGER preview new album with the lush electro melodics of ‘PANAPTU’.

Seoul based, Pan Asian new-age troubadours TENGGER gloriously float around the edges of the music world, beyond the usual concepts, processes and mechanics. Musical couple Itta and Marqido first performed…

View Post

View Post

Track/Video : Saxophonist, composer and jazz chronicler Matana Roberts announces new album ‘In The Garden’, Chapter Five in the visionary Coin Coin series.

Many new releases are anticipated but few have the added importance of Matana Roberts fifth instalment in their Coin Coin series ‘In The Garden’, due via Constellation on 29th September.…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Jonny Wickham – Terra Boa: Vibrant new jazz with a Brazilian heartbeat

Well you can’t say that Jonny Wickham’s first solo album lacks ambition. ‘Terra Boa‘, out now via Fresh Sound Records sees the jazz bassist and composer leading a sizeable band…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Me Lost Me – RPG : folk music of the future now

Folk music for today, what’s that then? Playing the old songs in new ways? Playing new songs in the old ways? Maybe the one tradition that’s certain is that the…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Emily Kuhn – Ghosts Of Us : Bouyant, melodic, refreshing jazz from the Chicago trumpeter.

Emily Kuhn’s new album ‘Ghosts of Us’, out now via the consistently impressive BACE Records, may have been written during the cloying pall of pandemic times but it represents an…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully – I Hope They Let Us Hunt Like Men In The Next Life: Thrilling experimentalism/challenging sounds from the DAMM founder.

Difficult music, what does that mean? Is it something at the opposite end of the spectrum to easy listening? Or is it all relative to the individual? I mean there…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Être Ensemble – CLOSE / SPACE: more montage music and cinematic vision from the inspired Joni Void network.

Experimental musician and sound artist Joni Void’s astounding tapestry of musical connectivity continues. The three albums released via Constellation, ‘Selfless’, ‘Mise En Abyme’ and this year’s ‘Everyday is the Song’,…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Nickodemus – Soul & Science: flowing global beats for moving and messaging.

New York based sonic traveller, producer and DJ Nickodemus is one of those global beats’ touchstones. Motivating dancefloors across the continents since the mid nineties and founder of the world…

View Post

View Post

Meet: experimental folk explorer ‘Me Lost Me’ ahead of her new album ‘RPG’.

You might call it folktronica, ‘nu’, dark or weird folk, whatever, Jayne Dent (aka ME LOST ME) makes music of singular quality and significant distinction that simply crosses any divide.…

View Post

Pages