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TRACK: Samuel Sharp announces album for the new year; hear ‘Catching Leaves’
BRITISH leftfield saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp, who has previously partially hidden his light under the recording name Lossy – and whose lovely, dubby, impressionistic single release “Fireworks From The Tower” we had the pleasure of covering here – has announced a new album, Patterns Various, which he’ll be gracing our senses with come mid-February; …
ALBUM REVIEW: Ana Roxanne – ‘Because Of A Flower’: a blissful vocal gem from Kranky
Ana Roxanne’s debut LP for Kranky is a beautiful, ambient album that examines ideas about gender, identity and beauty whilst remaining ultimately soothing. It’s one to return to when in need of solace.
SEE: Josephine Foster’s take on Daniel Blumberg’s ‘On & On’: reinterpretations album next month
YOU HAVE to say, Daniel Blumberg is one of the absolutely most interesting, unconventional songwriters to emerge on the British scene in many a long year. His album from a month or two back, On & On, pretty much has it all: confessional, heartfelt beauty; melodic simplicity; outside-the-pocket impro composition, taking the songs right to …
TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Invention Of The Moon’: fragile wonder from Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator
YOU MAY or may not be enough of an aficionado of modern composition to have come across Rutger Hoedemaekers, who’s recently signed to FatCat’s superb leftfield and experimental modern composition imprint, 130701 – but if this particular area of our musical landscape grabs you by the heart, you soon will be and frankly, damn well …
ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is
Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz’s FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word is a fragile and beautiful work for classical voice, piano, and tape decay, roaming across a broad and brittle hinterland between Gorecki and Basinski
Premiere: Ceiling Spirits release new ambient track, Ultraquiet
Preparing to release the follow up from his lauded a self titled album, Mario Quadracci, aka Ceiling Spirits, there is a new single ‘Ultraquiet’ out that we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. From beginning experimenting with sound in his basement, to meeting producer Gareth Jones who took his pieces and helped …
SEE: Grandbrothers – ‘All The Unknown’: prepared piano meets techno in widescreen
PIANIST Erol Sarp and producer-cum-electronic engineer Lukas Vogel first began to collaborate under the warped familial relationship concept of Grandbrothers eight years ago, looking to investigate the possibilities open to them in the prepared piano; that is, a piano with various insertions, be it purely analogue (the insertion of objects between the strings – under the bonnet, …
PREMIERE: Post Moves – ‘Bob’s Peace In West Texas’: exploring the distorted bliss of the pedal steel
IF YOU’RE an avid reader of these pages, you’ll have come across Sam Wenc only recently in connection with RON, the very fine textural ambient twosome he forms exactly one half of in connection with Carl Laukkanen; and whose “What Can The Feeling” we were more than a little pleased to premiere a few weeks …
TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘What’s Goin On’: a pertinent enquiry, eerily couched
…. IT’S WELL a question we could all be asking. What, indeed, is goin’ on? Society riven; the ‘rona running riot; politicians brazenly self-serving and at new peaks of mendacity. And it’s with a characteristic precognition that Cabaret Voltaire have just dropped a track full of that South Yorkshire industrial-era monochrome, the title repeating as …
CASSETTE REVIEWS: A trio of leftfield beauties from Fritz Pape, Stephen Molyneux, and Laura Luna Castillo
WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those brilliant little labels nibbling away at, and fascinated by, what’s happening out on the margins. The artists driven less by adoring teens and the bucks, and much, much more by exploring what’s possible, following their muse ever deeper into a particular aesthetic. As la mode, many of Whited Sepulchre’s …