MUSIC REVIEWS MARCH 2017 To listen or purchase click ≈≈≈ or album artwork The TESKEY BROTHERS Half Mile Harvest ≈≈≈ (Half Mile Harves Records) Reviewed by Chelsea Deeley Four lads from Warrandyte making warm, tender soul music is a harsh simplification of the latest album by Victorian quartet The Teskey Brothers. It’s an opening sentence that barely scrapes the surface of the band or the […]
REVIEW – Alfredo Rodriguez LIVE at The Basement
Alfredo Rodriguez @ The Basement Sunday 12th March 2017 By Peter Smetana I don’t know what I was expecting, possibly some of the Cuban magic of Omar Sosa who I saw at The Basement two weeks prior. Overall I was left unfulfilled. Let me explain. Believe it or not, Cuban pianists with prodigeous technique are […]
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Community Billboard March 20 – March 27
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
Music and Dementia with Cyrus Meurant
Composer, Cyrus Meurant, was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 14 March 2017, talking about his latest compositions and CD, created for patients with dementia. He talks about the commission, how the music relates to the moods of patients and how the music comes about. Listen to the conversation below along with his compositions, for Wednesday. […]
Boiling Point 14 February 2017 SA energy and red at night
Red at night, sailors delight? New Tesla battery array for SA?! Dr Luke Hedge jumped back into the BP chair to discuss the South Australian energy supply and competition to solve storage problems, sparked by the offer of a Tesla battery back up for the state, storing 100 megawatt hours ! And Chantelle was up […]
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Arts Wednesday 15 March 2017
Ed Lippmann joins us at 10:30 am for Part 5, the final part in this series of Sydney By Design, examining the latest vision for Sydney by the Greater Sydney Commission. At 11:00 am, I am joined by composer Cyrus Meurant, who has composed music on a CD entitled Monday to Friday. It is music […]
Roy Ayers
“This neat, feel good gig showed exactly why the New York-based vibraphonist, composer and bandleader is a longstanding crowd favourite in the UK.”– The Evening Standard Award-winning Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is one of the most sampled artists in R&B and Hip Hop and comes to show off his dynamic musical library in Sydney before joining […]
Happy Birthday, Harbour Bridge! New online exhibition for 85th opening anniversary.
Sydney’s most famous landmark and popular tourist attraction is getting its very own online exhibition to celebrate the 85th anniversary of its grand opening. Published by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), this exhibition features historical footage from the construction of Sydney’s Harbour Bridge up to its controversial opening ceremony in 1932. […]
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Five Coffees at Eastside
We were lucky enough to have Five Coffees at Studio A on Drive Studio! Three members of the band, Dean, Asahi and James all came by to talk about their newest single ‘Heist’, which they play for the first time on the air! Five Coffees grew out of the Conservatorium, when a group of […]
Luke Escombe and ‘Skeleton Blues’
Following the release of his album ‘Skeleton Blues’ (available here) Luke Escombe had a chat with David Barr on Tuesday Drive. Have a listen to the podcast below, in which two of Luke’s newest songs ‘The Man In The Long Black coat’ and ‘John The Revelator’ are played. They discuss the old-school way that […]
WOMADelaide 2017 Music Fest
Beautiful sunshine and the scent of pine needles filled the air mid afternoon as the Hackney road gates were flung open to celebrate the opening of Womadelaide 2017 – the 25th anniversary of the best World Music event that Australia hosts every year. We were greeted by the bizarre sight of two Frenchmen clad in […]
Album of the Week – ‘Raven’ by Domini Forster
‘Raven‘ by Domini Forster is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. Domini Forster is fast-establishing herself as one of Melbourne’s brightest new voices in modern folk. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is currently preparing to release her debut album. Hovering deftly in the breathless spaces between light and dark, Raven is an unfeigned paean to the […]
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