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Seductive soundtrack grooves with an analogue funk foundation. – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown DeepMatter Records – 8.8 Curiouser and curiouser, here’s the return of the illusive and slighty mysterious persona known as The Offline (aka Hamburg based guitarist/producer Felix Müller) with a quirky new EP ‘Les Cigales’. Keeping in line with The Offline line, this new release finds him digging through the crates from classic soundtrack to obscure library music, dusty funk to old soul and emerging with a fresh set of inspirations. The sweep of Axelrod plus the darker heart of Barry Adamson may still linger but ‘Les Cigales’ sees Müller reinforcing his own raison d’être with that characteristic panache. The plot began in 2022 with the ‘En Clair-Obscur’ EP,…
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Guitarist/Producer Gitkin previews new album ‘Golden Age’ with the rocking global grooves of ‘The One’. – Backseat Mafia
Since the days of Dick, Duane and Hank the twang has never settled on a single sound, it’s been the vehicle for numerous destinations. Link Wray took the rockabilly to hard rock route, Man or Astroman surfed sci-fi, Huevos Rancheros headed for punk rock and Khruangbin continue along the soul-funk highway. US Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Gitkin (aka Brian J) is another member of this musical collective who, since his first solo release in 2018, has been at the forefront of the twang’s exciting evolution. He’s a player who’s honed in on the connection between Mr Eddy’s original electric sound and a world of other styles from Peruvian Cumbia to…
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The scorching, upbeat grooves of ‘Jão’ signposts a new album from Rio/London troubadour, MOMO. – Backseat Mafia
It’s not often you get to hear about a ‘new’ artist on the London global beats scene who’s already stocked up a back catalogue of eight previous albums but that’s what’s happening with Marcelo Frota aka MOMO. From the dark-folk /Tropicalia fusion of his stark debut ‘A Estética do Rabisco’ in 2006 to his electronica blended bossa songs on 2019’s ‘I Was Told To Be Quiet’, MOMO’s music has simmered gently, an anchor for wherever he’s found himself. And Frota has certainly been a traveller. From his Rio roots, he’s spent a lifetime shifting between the US and Spain, Angola and Portugal before pausing for the last three years in…
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Bossa beats, international grooves and so much more on this globetrotting musician’s debut. – Backseat Mafia
The Breakdown Bongo Joe/ Total Refreshment Centre – 8.8 Sonic explorer, creative adventurer, soundscape navigator are all phrases you could apply to Alexander Burke a.k.a Forest Law. Romford born, now London based he’s taken a globetrotting route to the release of his debut album ‘Zero’, available now courtesy of a Bongo Joe/ Total Refreshment Centre collaboration. Coming through Giles Peterson’s ‘Future Bubblers ‘unsigned artists’ programme, earning a Brownswood EP release in 2020, touring the world with Esa Williams Afro-Synth Band then taking up an extended residency at LungA art school in the remote fringes of East Iceland, these have all been key moments in his journey so far. Even as…
