GIG REVIEW – Julien Wilson Quintet at SIMA Sound Lounge, Sydney 6th August 2016.

Julien: tenor sax, Carl Dewhurst: electric guitar, Barney McCall: piano, Jonathan Zwartz: bass, Hamish Stuart: drums. I knew this wasn’t going to be just another gig! Five of Australia’s top artists all on the one stage was guaranteed to create fireworks! Ostensibly this was a CD launch of ‘This Narrow Isthmus’ which was recorded in […]

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Album of the Week – Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire by Margaret Brandman

‘Sensations Wind, Waves, Birds, and Fire’ by Margaret Brandman is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. The album we are focusing on this week across the station is one that hosts some lengthy experience and talent, this Australian artists’ career in the music industry spans over 40 years. A lady who has been awarded the International […]

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A haunting soundtrack to a movie not yet made…on Monday Drive

Enjoy some extraordinary melodicism and dazzling technique in-studio with me next week, when Monday afternoon gets hot and high octane with a visit from Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. In town with his trio for one gig at the Sydney Recital Hall,  Muthspiel’s last recording, Bright Side, was described as “gorgeous, […]

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Corey Harris: Blues With All The Roots and Branches

With one foot in tradition and the other in contemporary experimentation, Corey Harris is a truly unique voice in contemporary music. He is a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader who has carved out his own niche in blues. Beginning his career as a New Orleans street singer, he traveled through the Southern US before spending […]

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Boiling Point August 2nd

Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here:https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/# Tim talked about turning a new leaf in solar-generated syngas https://www.abc.net.au/…/humans-and-wild-birds-talk-…/7650038 … Chantelle reported in from tropical Panama with an interview with Dr. Graham Zemunik on soil driven vegetation assemblages and the role of manganese in reducing growth rates of tropical trees https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Graham_Zemunik And Luke led us […]

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2016 Freedman Fellow Announced

Shimmering drum performance claims Australia’s most lucrative jazz prize Drummer and composer James McLean has taken out Australia’s most lucrative jazz prize when he was last night named the 2016 Freedman Jazz Fellow.  McLean succeed in claiming the $20,000 cash prize against pianists Joseph O’Connor and Luke Sweeting following an epic play off at Freedman […]

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SOULROCKER: Michael Franti & Spearhead on Tour

One of the planet’s most uplifting musicians Michael Franti and his band Spearhead will be bringing their dynamic new music to The Croxton in Melbourne on Wednesday 28th September 2016 and the Metro Theatre in Sydney on Thursday 29th September 2016. Michael Franti has dedicated his life to spreading the joy of music and positivity […]

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