Folk
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 mystery benefactor, who made a substantial donation, allowing this autumn series of Live at the Barbican shows to take place – there’s a whole variety …
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
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 I O N S ready for you: a subscriber-only, three-part set of special limited-edition releases, written and recorded in rural seclusion in a “bothy” cabin …
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 … gigs. Aren’t they wonderful, beauteous things. Okay, it’s a livestream event, but look at it out there; am I in a position to choose? Are …
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 her forthcoming EP ‘Superbloom’ which drops on October 30th, and was written whilst living with her ex-boyfriend in Ecuador, renting a house in Quito after …
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 Away”. Speaking of the track, she states: “I wanted to write the song from the perspective of what a friend might say to me, rather …
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 of “Holm Sound” ahead of this Saturday’s Barbican performance. He evokes in sound that stretch of water separating Mainland from Barray, adjacent to the village …
Exclusive: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald records ‘I Love That Sound’ in session for Backseat Mafia
With his album ‘Love Valley’ out at the end of the week, we’re delighted that Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Bernard Fitzgerald has recorded an At Home Session exclusively for Backseat Mafia, featuring one of the songs Taken from the album, I love that sound. The album saw Michael make a set of songs that are warm …
TRACK: Laura Fell – ‘Cold’: second single from an amazing new voice
HOT off the back of her brilliant – nay, jawdropping – debut single, “Bone Of Contention”, London singer, songwriter and psychotherapist Laura Fell today releases “Cold”, yet another slice of intelligent acoustic songsmithery – with that voice. If you didn’t catch up with “Bone Of Contention”, follow through on the link above; prepare to swoon …
See: Kitchman / Schmidt release new video for Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’
Out on November 27th is the new album from Jazz/Folk guitarist James Kitchman and vocalist Sylvia Schmidt – ‘As Long As Songbirds Sing’, and ahead of it, the pair have released their debut single, the Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’. On the origins of their version of the song – which Briggs sung on her seminal …