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Track: The Hamrahlíð Choir and Björk share single ‘Cosmogony’
Icelandic group The Hamrahlíð Choir are releasing the first single ‘Cosmogony’, taken from their upcoming album ‘Come and be Joyful’. Written by Björk and Sjón, ‘Cosmogony’ is an entirely acapella work which was first performed by the Hamrahlíð Choir at the premiere performance of Björk’s critically acclaimed Cornucopia show at The Shed, New York, last year. …
TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!
MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited for the release of his second album of the year, in cahoots with The Night Mail, Thunderclouds – not least because we gets to hear …
TRACK: Fujiya & Miyagi – ‘Feeling The Effects (Of Saturday Night)’
BRIGHTON’S cool groovers Fujiya & Miyagi used what we can now refer to as period of history known as Lockdown One wisely, and kept on creating. They dug back into the archives, blowing the dust from abandoned hard drives and found a fragment of an idea dating all the way back to 2000. Socially distanced …
TRACK: Reid Willis – ‘Finger To Pulse’: dark tech from new Mesh soundscaper
MESH, the exploratory techno label run by the brilliant Max Cooper, has added another complex and textural talent to its roster with the signing of American soundscaper Reid Willis, who’s set to debut his first full-length release for the label this Thursday. He’s preceding that deep and hallucinatory album, Mother Of, with a single drop …
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 …
SEE: Alex Jayne – ‘Pictures’: grand introspection about letting go
LONDON songstress Alex Jayne, who’s released a triptych of potent, observational pop nuggets this year, is drawing down the curtain on 2020 with one final single, “Pictures”, again penned from the heart. Watch the Laurie Barraclough-directed video below. It’s a slow burn with a grand vocal performance: fragile, yet still soaring, you can really feel …
NEWS: Neil Cowley announces solo album for February; hear ‘She Lives In Golden Sands’
BRITISH pianist Neil Cowley, who released a septet of albums sitting astride the point where jazz begins to shade into modern composition and tronica over a period of ten years from 2006, has been on something of a musical journey. His previous combo, the Neil Cowley Trio, climaxed in the piano and tronica-led excellence of …
TRACK: Lizzie Reid announces debut EP; hear ‘Always Lovely’
YOU HAVE to say, rising Essex indie imprint Seven Four Seven Six can count its blessings in enticing emerging Glasgow songwriter Lizzie Reid to its ranks. She’s announced her debut EP, Cubicle, for the label, which’ll be out on January 22nd; in celebration of which she’s shared a track from it, “Always Lovely” – which …
Track: Thomas Keating – Cold Night
Sydney singer Thomas Keating has just released an absolutely gorgeous track ‘Cold Night’ and a dazzling accompanying video for the song. Inspired by time spent in Melbourne, the song is imperial and statuesque – crisp, sparkling instrumentation flow under Keating’s melancholic and expressive vocals. Keating says: A few years ago, I moved to Melbourne for …
ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches
If you’re a fan of the shearing and crushing end of the dance music spectrum – anything from (on-form) The Prodigy through Harthouse and Tresor styles – and fancy the idea of that real defleshed aesthetic spliced with some darker downbeatz interludes, this is a record you’d find rewarding to explore