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Album: Nine Treasures – Awakening From Dukkha

Named after a group of objects referenced in ancient Mongolian poems, ‘Nine Treasures’ are celebrating their journey so far with their new ‘Best Of’ record, Awakening From Dukkha, to be released 19th March. The…

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Track: Kele Okereke investigates instrumental music in ‘The Heart Of The Wave’

KELE OKEREKE may be best known as the frontman of the band Bloc Party, who fused elements of house and electronica into their work. He first branched off with a…

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Album review: Mint Julep – ‘In A Deep and Dreamless Sleep’: kaleidoscopic and dreamy shoegaze pop

FOLLOWING on from 2019’s sumptuous release Stray Fantasies, the duo of Hollie and Keith Kenniff return with a kaleidoscopic and dreamy shoegaze pop venture that is at times an extension of…

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See: The lyric video for the tumbling odd-folk of Yves Jarvis’ ‘Body Of Work’

YVES JARVIS is the artist and autodidact Jean-Sébastien Audet who, in a pseudo-Bill Callahanesque move, came out from behind his Un Blonde facemask after 2016’s excellent Good Will Come To You (according…

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Premiere: Bob Hillman and Spooky Ghost reveal new video for the brilliant noise-folk of Urban Wildlife

Following on from last years collaboration between Bob Hillman and Bowie/Rufus Wainright/Suzanne Vega guitarist/soundscape artist Gerry Leonard, aka Spooky Ghost, the pair are releasing a new video for the track…

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Say Psych: Video Premiere – Wolfen – Soldier

Wolfen is the brain child of multi instrumentalist Shane Horgan and also features Jonathan Parkes & Alec Wood from kosmiche rockers Korb, Arboria and Mutante to name a few! BSM…

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See: The video for the slow, surreal funk jam of RAS’ ‘Lo Zaz’; an album follows in May

HAILING from Tel Aviv but these days based in Berlin, RAS are bringing their own brightly eastern Mediterranean twist on classic Seventies’ funk and soul, mixing slow jams with influences…

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Premiere: Mike Alias – ‘Drift’: celestial jazz-hop from California

CALIFORNIAN artist Mike Alias today releases his new single, “Drift”, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here today on Backseat Mafia. Born into a musical family,…

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BFI Flare Review: The Greenhouse

The loss of a loved one can be paralysing. The death of someone who has played a huge part in your daily life can leave a gap which can never…

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Premiere: Watch the video for Sasha & The Shades’ theatrical folk-blues, ‘Smile’; the magician’s assistant finally has her say

SOUTH-EAST London vaudeville blues-folk quintet Sasha & The Shades have a new EP, Grin & Bare It, lined up for release not just digitally, but on that sexiest and scarcest-used…

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Album: Nine Treasures – Awakening From Dukkha

Track: Kele Okereke investigates instrumental music in ‘The Heart Of The Wave’

Album review: Mint Julep – ‘In A Deep and Dreamless Sleep’: kaleidoscopic and dreamy shoegaze pop

See: The lyric video for the tumbling odd-folk of Yves Jarvis’ ‘Body Of Work’

Premiere: Bob Hillman and Spooky Ghost reveal new video for the brilliant noise-folk of Urban Wildlife

Say Psych: Video Premiere – Wolfen – Soldier

See: The video for the slow, surreal funk jam of RAS’ ‘Lo Zaz’; an album follows in May

Premiere: Mike Alias – ‘Drift’: celestial jazz-hop from California

BFI Flare Review: The Greenhouse

Premiere: Watch the video for Sasha & The Shades’ theatrical folk-blues, ‘Smile’; the magician’s assistant finally has her say