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SEE: Jim Ghedi – ‘Beneath The Willow’; new album in January

MODERN fingerpicking scion Jim Ghedi has announced he’s releasing a new album in January; and he’s just released a video and short film for the first single to be taken…

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SEE: Ailsa Tully’s ‘Drive’: sweet bass-driven folk-pop from the Welsh borders

DALLIANCE RECORDINGS, the boutique label that’s already garnered the loveliness of Gia Margaret and Common Holly to its hearthside, has hit a triple score on singer-songwriters by adding Welsh border…

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Premiere: Desure releases new track and visuals for the beautifully melancholy Hi/Lo

Los Angeles Desure, aka Joshua Desure, is gearing up for the release of his Pollen EP, out on November 20th, and ahead of it, we’re delighted to premiere the lyric…

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LIVE REVIEW: Richard Dawson, The Barbican, London

YOU HAVE to take your hat off to everyone at the Barbican – and, as we were told by Erland Cooper in the very first of these sessions – a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks

Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin' folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year

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NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map

LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T…

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LIVE REVIEW: Erland Cooper, The Barbican, London: bringing the soul of Orkney to the heart of the capital

TO THE Barbican, that beautiful, brutalist residential and cultural hub in London EC2: for a gig. A gig! Livestream or not, it’s a red letter day in 2020. Ah ……

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Premiere: Lauren Hulbert releases her new single Honeydew

Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lauren Hulbert is releasing a new single ‘Honeydew’ which we’re delighted to premiere today right here on Backseat Mafia. The track, out on Monday, is taken from…

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TRACK: Emma Miller releases new track ‘Sail Away’ ahead of debut EP

AHEAD of the hotly anticipated release of her debut EP coming this November, Scottish folk singer Emma Miller has released the a taster in the shape of second track “Sail…

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TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show

THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn…

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