noise Archives - Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Jad Atoui – ‘It Will Take Forever’: A challenging merger of electronics, noise and ambience from the Lebanese sound sculptor.

Beirut -based audio-artist Jad Atoui’s ‘It Will Take Forever’ takes you on a journey into the depths of sound. Experimental electronic music with the listener key to the experiment, it’s…

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Album Review: Cluster Lizard – Herts

The pulse of the path. In a massive heartbeat, daring waves rise one after another. The unbreakable tide of the lightning dance, where life and death collide in the eternal…

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Album Review : Nina Garcia – ‘Bye Bye Bird’ : Taking noise guitar deeper and further.

You could say that guitar led experimentalism is having a moment. Away from the revered Frith/ Orcutt/Ambarchi/Anderson/Connors conclave, a new wave of fretboard deconstructors are cranking up their own kind…

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Album Review : Lea Bertucci – Of Shadow and Substance : Pushing through electro -acoustic boundaries and shifting our perspectives.

For over a decade of releases and live performance Lea Bertucci has drawn on the shapes, sounds and possibilities of the clarinet, saxophone, strings, vibraphone and harp to create long…

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Album Review : New Age Doom & Tuvaband – ‘There Is No End’ : re-constituting electric rock and breaking real new ground.

Unintentional maybe but the title of New Age Doom’s latest ‘There Is No End’ describes the extent of the Vancouver duo’s musical vision, reach and range. Drummer Eric J. Breitenbach…

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Meet: Glasgow Four Piece ‘Noise’ Who Have Just Released Their Debut EP

With the band EP ‘Not Until Tomorrow Night’ out now, Backseat Mafia found out a little bit more about the up and commers. Give us a potted history of NOISE…

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Meet: Steve Kirby of North East Cassette Label Industrial Coast

With the resurgence of vinyl in recent times, it might come as no surprise that the humble cassette tape is also making a comeback, with many a merch stand at…

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Track: Taking post-rock further – New Age Doom & Tuvaband preview new album ‘There Is No End’ with the climactic title track.

Now here’s some news from the consistently beneficial We Are Busy Bodies to lighten up the post summer gloom. The Toronto label will be releasing the new album ‘There Is…

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News: Noise announce the release of their debut EP

Glasgow four-piece Noise have announced their debut 6-track EP ”Not Untill Tomorrow Night” which willbe released on 22 September and have revealed the video for the lead track and live…

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Track/Video: Electro-psych pioneers Teeth Of The Sea preview new album ‘Hive’ with the pulsating rush of ‘Megafragma’.

Techno doom, electro metal, dub psych, industrial prog, prog techno, doom psych, metal dub, doom prog disco…Teeth Of The Sea have been sending the genre-makers scrabbling at their combinations for…

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