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Discovered: Roberta Baldizzone White Quartet – Changing Textures

Changing Textures is a musical project that brings together works by the pianist and composer Roberta Baldizzone. Pieces based mainly on contrasting sound research – timbre, dynamics, tension – created…

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Album review: Matt Robertson – ‘Enveleau’: analogue grandeur, ambience and acid

If old-skool British acid and ambient techno floats your boat, and let's face it, it's such a halcyon era for the genre, mostly never bettered; get yourself Enveleau. Maybe only the redoubtable Mr Hopkin is operating with this deliciousness in the field

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Album Review : Adam Moezinia’s ‘ Folk Element Trio’ – A Sonic Travelogue

New York based guitarist Adam Moezinia first debut album ,’Folk Element Trio’ is what we at Backseat Mafia have suspected it would be , after premiering its single ‘Celebration’ last month…

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Album review: Conrad Clipper – ‘Heron’s Book Of Dreams’: a pseudonymous, textural ambient gem

Heron's Book of Dreams is glorious. It knows what to do, it knows what you need, and never aims for cheap and maximal when stripping back, excellent arrangement and contrast can do the job. Think a slightly more abrasively edged, more intimate A Winged Victory For The Sullen. A very beautiful record for people who love the interstices where 'flesh and blood' instrumentation gets it on with drones. Delightful.

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EP Review: Graywave unveils the seismic dream pop delight ‘Planetary Shift’

Here at Backseat Mafia, we have been lauding the dream pop aural landscapes Graywave has created through a series of singles released over the past year. Graywave – the nom…

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Album Review: Yann Gourdon’s self-titled LP hypnotizes the listener with swirling, baroque instrumentation

The new offerings from French artist Yann Gourdon create a hypnotizing atmosphere that pushes and pulls the listener from its fabric. It can be argued that ambient music is defined…

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EP Review: RedHook release the explosive and very therapeutic EP ‘Bad Decisions’ and announce tour

It is hard to classify Sydney band RedHook – there is an electronic buzzsaw blitz with thundering percussion and at times a blistering wall of noise, all wrapped up in…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: On His LP Border Patrol, Singer-Songwriter Farees Turns Trauma Into Art, With Humor, Grace and Righteous Anger

When Farees, the singer-song writer, released his stirring debut solo album in 2015, Mississippi to Sahara, (under the name Faris), he did what many artists do; he planned a tour…

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Album review: Alaskan Tapes – ‘For Us Alone’: 39 minutes of tranquil serenity

ALASKAN TAPES has created a short but blissful sequel to his previously album Views From 16 Stories. It’s Alaskan Tapes, also known as Brady Kendall, second album of 2021: For…

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Album Review: Mente Organica – ‘El Espacio’

Earthly Measures, the London based DJ and event creating duo, have been carefully and lovingly nurturing their record label through these turbulent times . They’ve put out a couple of…

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