Tag: Australia
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Brazilian hip hop and pan-African extravaganza on ‘Ela Partiu’ by Laiz & The New Love Experience – it’s outernational excellence
This is a multi-genre inspired hip-hop album – with socially conscious inspirations – fused with musical reference points from around the world, meet Laiz & The New Love Experience. Their new single is out today entitled Mena. This final single and video features Jembaa Groove’s Eric Owusu – bridging topics around love, sexuality – and is about someone…
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Stunning debut album by Finn Rees – ‘Dawn Is A Melody’ for Mr Bongo is among the very best of jazz albums this year – and is more world class music from Oz
Listen to the wonder of this album – Dawn Is A Melody by Finn Rees – a contender for best (jazz album) of the year, and one that means artists are delivering once again during a year (so far!) of supreme jazz music. There’s been a particular movement of supreme sounds from Antipodean parts, with…
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Leong Lau and East-West Unity Band’s psyched out jazz-rock of outernational wonder – Left Ear Records revive these lost beauties on 7″
After a little break, WTM is back to feature one of our favourite labels once again, as well as one of the most captivating artists from ‘down under’. Leong Lau was brought to the light by Left Ear Records of Australia, he’s a true Antipodean anomaly and encapsulates everything that World Treasures Music aims to…
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Left Ear Records to drop four-track 12″ of short-lived Australian band, Tester Housing – featuring their two singles that capture the “chaos” of the early 80s Melbourne music scene – it’s out next week
Tester Housing are the latest revive for the peerless Left Ear Records, a Melbourne-based label where diversity and quality are so expertly considered with every release. Left Ear have reissued a range of genres – from African boogie rareties to choice bombs from the Carribean, obscure synth-wave to timeless folk – while also paying deserved…
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Left Ear’s selection of Antipodean Anomalies brings us special music from an “isolating” place
The wait is finally over and Left Ear’s compilation of music from Australia and New Zealand – made in a “unique” time and space in the 1970s and 1980s – is finally here…and these Antipodean Anomalies sound like nothing else. Compiled by Left Ear Record’s own Chris Bonato and Umut Turkeri, tracks such as Rainbow Generator’s City…
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Left Ear select best of Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi on new compilation ‘In Praise of Mitochondria’
In Praise of Mitochondria celebrates the output of Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi who self-released four albums of unique proto-electro and rap explorations. They were released on two vinyl LPs and two CDs between 1985 and 1992 and now the ever trusty Left Ear Records from Melbourne have revisited this Japanese pioneer. Together with Jerome Qpchan, the…
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Left Ear Records celebrate Australian great again with Peter Westheimer’s ‘Cool Change’ comp
Cool Change from Left Ear Records is the new compilation of Peter Westheimer and it’s a welcome examination of a musical polymath. Westheimer is a a medical doctor, played violin in the Australian Youth Orchestra, he’s been an actor, a former deputy mayor, a street theatre performer and a documentary soundtrack composer. The Aussie label…
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Soon on Left Ear Records: Shahara-Ja’s electro soul gem ‘I’m An Arabian Knight’
Australia’s Left Ear Records are planning the reissue of this cult record – Shahara-Ja’s I’m An Arabian Knight. This great video of the late 1980s oddity gives us a taster. The label has so far reunited us with the Yoruba Singers, Brother Resistance, Starship Commander Woo Woo, Andre Tanker and Leong Lau. More at Left…
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Evolution: Tamam Shud’s cult surf soundtrack
Taman Shud’s psychedelic soundtrack to the cult Australian surf movie Evolution has been lovingly reissued by Anthology Records. It was recorded live in 1968 – whilst the film was projected upon the studio wall due to budget constraints – and was released in 1969. Tamam Shud evolved from an instrumental surf band called The Four…
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