John Parry, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: David Lord – ‘Cloud Ear’: Chicago-style free guitar jazz teases for new LP

ON THE other side of the guitarist spectrum from the strut and stomp are the outliers, dogged explorers of the fretboard, scholars of the instrument’s sonic complexity. Derek Bailey, Fred…

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TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja

IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress.…

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Track: Oliver Coates releases new track, ‘Honey’, from forthcoming album

TO CALL Oliver Coates a cellist tells you nothing at all. Oliver Coates is a musician whose work connects the circuits at the edge of dance and classical worlds. It’s…

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News: London Jazz Festival 13th to 22nd November 2020 – Announcement

London Jazz Festival, an amazing 28 years in, has become a big deal on the global music calendar. A stunning mix of international big hitters, emerging UK talent, old pioneers…

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Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans

Once again they come from the north-Hen Ogledd, time travelling space pop troubadours with music of weird and wonky magic. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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