Album of the Week: Marley Del Prete – Movement // Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book

EASTSIDE ALBUM OF THE WEEK PRESENTS Marley Del Prete – Movement [Released – 13 August, 2023 on Awake Nu Records] Marley Del Prete explores vivaciously the elements of free and spiritual jazz in collaboration with an ensemble of some of Del Prete’s virtuosic jazz contemporaries. This record was created on the lands of the Wurundjeri people […]

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Album of the Week: Surprise Chef – Education & Recreation // Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

EASTSIDE FM ALBUM OF THE WEEK PRESENTS Surprise Chef – Education & Recreation  [Released – 14 Oct, 2022 on Big Crown Records] Education & Recreation is the third album produced by Surprise Chef and their debut record released on Big Crown Records, Brooklyn, USA. Surprise Chef have birthed out of the suburbia of Coburg, Victoria, Australia […]

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Album of the Week: The Shores of Infinity – Menagerie // Bewitched – Laufey

East Side Radio Album of the Week Presents The Shores of Infinity – Menagerie (AUS) Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated fourth album The Shores Of Infinity – representing the 3rd LP to be released by Freestyle Records from the Melbourne-based Jazz ensemble, founded by producer, songwriter, guitarist, DJ and recording artist […]

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Album of the Week: Sean La’brooy – There’s Always Next Year // Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

East Side Radio Album of the Week Presents There’s Always Next Year – Sean La’brooy (AUS) Sean La’brooy, co-founder of Antique Attics records, announces his newest album release There’s Always Next Year – comprised of six stunning compositions. A tribute to the misguided hopes and dreams of a sports fan, There’s Always Next Year, speaks […]

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Album of the Week: The Shores of Infinity – Menagerie // Bewitched – Laufey

East Side Radio Album of the Week Presents   The Shores of Infinity – Menagerie (AUS) Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie announce their highly anticipated fourth album The Shores Of Infinity – representing the 3rd LP to be released by Freestyle Records from the Melbourne-based Jazz ensemble, founded by producer, songwriter, guitarist, DJ and recording […]

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AOW: Bewitched – Laufey / The Shores Of Infinity – Menagerie

This week’s Album Of The Week show is kickstarted way away in Iceland; home to spectacular scenery, fishy cuisine and the wonderfully talented Jazz-Pop artist Laufey Lin Jonsdottir. Laufey’s latest release, Bewitched, has been crafted to be a “love album, whether it be a love towards a friend or a lover or life”, a brilliantly […]

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AOW: Daylight Savings ⁠— Surprise Chef / Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Live at Alexandra Palace) — Nick Cave

Album art for Surprise Chef's album Daylight Savings

This week’s Album of the Week show is an all-Aussie affair, with jazz-funk sounds from Melbourne locals Surprise Chef, and the latest live release by Australian music royalty Nick Cave, with Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Live at Alexandra Palace). Released on the verge of a city re-awakening, Surprise Chef’s Daylight Savings speaks to vintage funk in a […]

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Album of the Week: Discipline of Sun Ra ⁠— EABS / Ghetto Kumbé — Ghetto Kumbé

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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features an afrofuturism double whammy; with Polish group EABS reinventing the psychic sounds of Sun Ra, and Colombian outfit Ghetto Kumbé – a ‘psychedelic African tribe from the 21st century’. EABS have made waves in the Polish jazz scene of late, earning them a cult-like following for […]

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Album of the Week: Sugoi ⁠— Slips and the F.W’S / græ — Moses Sumney

Album art for Slips and the F.W's newest album Sugoi

Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features ragtime joy in the form of Queensland jazz group Slips and the F.W’s, and the epic two part release from neo-soul afficionado Moses Sumney out of the US. Sugoi is the debut album from jazz-blues-ragtime group Slips and the F.W’s. The group have been performing their eclectic […]

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Album of the Week: SOURCE ⁠— Nubya Garcia / “15/10” — Onarsé

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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the long-anticipated debut from London jazz producer and performer Nubya Garcia, as well as some soulful sounds from Western Sydney’s Onarsé. Nubya Garcia has been a jazz musician from a young age, taking up the reigns from her musical family including her Guyanese mother and Trinidadian […]

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Album of the Week: Life is Brut[if]al ⁠— Andrea Keller / Just Kids — Stevan

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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the latest release from Australian jazz legend Andrea Keller, and the debut mixtape from Wollongong local Stevan. Andrea Keller is a legendary Australian pianist and composer who began her foray into jazz at just 14 years old. She now composes and produces music for eight separate […]

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Album of the Week: Wu Hen ⁠— Kamaal Williams & Is This Offensive and Loud? — Nat Vazer

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Eastside’s Album of the Week show this week features the latest release from Kamaal Williams, and sweet indie-folk sounds out of Melbourne from Nat Vazer’s Is This Offensive and Loud?. Kamaal Williams made a name for himself back in 2016 after teaming up with Yussef Dayes to release Black Focus under the Yussef Kamaal name. The […]

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