Track: Keaton Henson releases new track ‘Husk’ ahead of forthcoming album
Keaton Henson’s music deserves all the devotion and respect it gets. From his cavernously personal home recorded debut ‘Dear’ in 2012 to the more recent tense and tormented orchestral ‘Six Lethargies’ he always makes that emotional connection. His songs, his experiences become yours. Whispers about new Henson song-craft began to filter through a couple of …
Track: Sally Anne Morgan releases ‘Polly On The Shore’
It’s getting mighty crowded in the psych-folk district right now. So to stand out you need that little something else … enter Sally Anne Morgan. A fiddler, banjo player and vocalist with a growing reputation as a member of the Black Twig Pickers and the duo House and Land, the time is so right for …
Track: Kasperi Sarikoski releases ‘Wide Lanes’ ahead of new album
The trombonist – always the bridesmaid, the ugly duckling – you sometimes wonder where jazz would be if Miles or Coltrane were trombone players. Sure the big band era had its fair share of t-bone wielding leaders, JJ Johnson showed the slider could rip up be-bop’s rule book and more recently Trombone Shorty has delivered …
Track: Hen Ogledd release new track Crimson Star ahead of new album
Weird and wonky is how Hen Ogledd describe themselves but with the upcoming release of their fourth LP ‘Free Humans’ (released on 25th September via Weird World Records) the signs are the band are finding some focus in their otherworld. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and avant harpist Rhodri Davies, the …
See: Melt Yourself Down – new single and video – Born in the Manor
Melt Yourself Down are an important band. Revolving around saxophonist Pete Wareham (a key player in punk jazz pioneers Acoustic Ladyland) and Kushal Gaya (vocalist with the much missed genre busting experimentalists Zun Zun Egui) the collective have been crashing barriers since their foundation in 2012, laying the road wide open for the recent rush …
Track: Julia Holter releases new (old) cover of Gold Dust Woman
Remember music magazines…remember the cover-mount CDs (you probably have plenty stuffed in a cupboard somewhere)? Well Julia Holter, singer, composer and sonic explorer does. She recorded this version of ‘Gold Dust Woman’ way back in 2012 for a Mojo mag tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s soft rock classic ‘Rumours’ album (nerd note- track 11 on the …
Track: Steve Arrington releases new track, ‘Soulful I Need That In My Life’
Anticipation is rising amongst devoted funksters as Steve Arrington’s new album ‘Down To The Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions’ is due to drop on 18th September on Stones Throw Records. He’s been away for 10 years after quitting the scene to devote time to the ministry, only to be heard in snatches on samples from …
Track: Pauline Murray reveals new track, ‘Shadow In My Mind’, plus album/tour news
Singer/songwriter and bona fide first wave punk pioneer has never rested on her reputation. From the expansive raw highs of Penetration (the only band who could cover Patti Smith and Buzzcock’s numbers with aplomb) to the glacial song-scapes of the Invisible Girls, she has always been a leader. Steadily building an artistic hub around Polestar …
See: Orchestra Baobab – 50th Anniversary/ re-release and archive video for Dee Moo Woor
Ok so this is really heart and soul stuff. The legendary seminal Senegalese collective Orchestra Baobab are marking the 50th anniversary of their ground breaking music making with the vinyl release on World Circuit of their 2002 ‘come back’ album ‘Specialist In All Styles’. The record announced the return of the band a full nineteen …
Meet: Gregory Porter ahead of his album release ‘All Rise’
As you know at Back Seat Mafia we feature music of quality and distinction, well known and unknown, anything that has integrity…no pretenders. So when the chance came up to interview Gregory Porter, singer, songwriter and jazz ambassador, it was too good to pass by – the man is the real deal. We talked to …