Tag: Chris Bonato
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Poetical License’s melancholia and post-punk – the wares of Scottish-born Mark Airlie and New Zealand’s Keri Ansley – on Left Ear Records
It’s a great day whenever a Left Ear Records promo drops in the World Treasures inbox. This time, label boss Chris Bonato brings Poetical License to the light – a brief project uniting Scottish born and Aotearean (New Zealand) musician, Mark Airlie and keyboardist and vocalist, Keri Ansley, after the duo met in New Plymouth.…
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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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Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi is Left Ear Records 25th release – ‘Hakodate Lady’ mutates Japanese enka genre into darker and abstract versions – a fitting celebration for a wonderfully diverse label
We love Minoru Fushimi and his unique approach to music in the early 1980s – check out his interview with us after his In Praise of Mitochondria compilation was released in 2017 on Left Ear Records – now his catalogue is being revisited for the 25th release on this fantastic label, with a special 7″,…
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Left Ear press 1993 jams by Jay U Experience – you must hear these synth and drum machine experiments from New York
This is otherworldly music by Nigeria’s Jay U Experience, soon to be available on vinyl via the Melbourne based label, Left Ear Records. We’re big fans of this label and their intrepid musical excavations, but even by Left Ear’s impeccable standards, this is a real dig and insanely good. This EP release is extracted from…
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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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