Tag: Melbourne
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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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Gordon Koang gets the remix treatment by two Aussies in his adopted homeland, Melbourne – Koang’s South Sudan pop is reworked by Sleep D and Andras for the Music In Exile project
Gordon Koang is South Sudan’s enigmatic superstar of infectious pop music – Music In Exile are releasing a series of remixes from his recent Unity album, this time partnering with two leaders of electronic music in Melbourne, Sleep D and Andras. All proceeds will go towards Gordon’s plight for citizenship and to be reunited with…
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The Seven Ups groove hard and their fourth studio album is in the works – first single ‘Abode Of The Clouds’ keeps their funk ship on course – as fans eagerly await further fixes from the Melbourne funkers
The Seven Ups sound is great – raw, necksnapping funk – and their fourth studio album has been tantilisingly trailed with latest single Abode Of The Clouds dropping in January. The band celebrated the release with a launch party at the Corner Hotel, Melbourne. The band’s upcoming fourth studio album sounds like a journey into…
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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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Tamil Rogeon is back making beautiful jazz music after a three-year break – new album ‘Son of Nyx’ will drop in February 2021 – singles ‘House No Wheels’ and ‘Momus’ will whet the appetite
Melbourne-based jazz violinist and orchestral composer, Tamil Rogeon, has returned to jazz with his first LP in three years. It will be released on February 5th, 2021, on Greg Boramans’ new imprint – Soul Bank Music (part of the !K7 Music Group) – and is entitled Son of Nyx. Son of Nyx is one of…
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Meet Bananagun with their psychedelic sound – influences of West Africa meet the Brazilian Tropicalia movement – the Aussies’ highlife, surf-rocking Os Mutantes
Bananagun will drop their debut album The True Story of Bananagun on June 26th and the lead single is People Talk Too Much – a Fela Kuti inspired jam that showcases their psychedelic and globally influenced sound. It features percussive touches of West African highlife and Brazilian Tropicalia. Hailing from Melbourne, The True Story of Bananagun records the…
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Oz collective Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange release more jazz and dance fusion to further critical acclaim
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange use the spirit of live improvisation on new release Z*F*E*X Volume 2 via The Jazz Diaries label. Headed up by drummer Ziggy Zeitgeist, a staple of the Australian music scene, most prominently touring and recording with Melbourne nu-soul/future-jazz collective ‘30/70’, Ziggy’s music has already been championed across the breadth of the jazz…
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New Mulatu Astatke single – ‘Kulun Mankwaleshi’ with Black Jesus Experience on Agogo Records – is out now ahead of new album in June
Legendary vibraphonist and ‘Father of Ethio-jazz’, Mulatu Astatke, joins forces with Melbourne-based eight-piece Black Jesus Experience on their latest album To Know Without Knowing released via German imprint, Agogo Records, this summer. The nine-track assembly will once again feature the unmistakable Ethiopian style – following their first collaborative studio full-length album, Cradle With Humanity, in…
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Melbourne label Left Ear celebrate 20 releases with underground Aussie singer Justine Bradley
For the 20th release from this leading reissue label, Left Ear Records have focused on the mysterious Sydney songstress Justine Bradley, who recorded her self titled album in 1979. It’s a beautiful double sider that will play nicely alongside modern soul nuggets, Japanese breeze and AOR. “It’s an album which captures Justine’s unique vocal talents…
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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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