R Deschamps
This album is living up to the Hype.... They got a legit scene down there..... Well done and keep it up... This comp will be in my year end list... its THAT good!
Favorite track: Powers 2 (The People).
Étienne Champagne
Essential compilation that demonstrates how deep and unique is the australian jazz and beyond scene. Great liner notes. You need to make a similar compilation on the Los Angeles scene and the one in Chicago.
Music Without Labels
Phil Stroud - Banksia, first track on the album,begins what can only be described as a fully immersed journey to the heart, with some of the best music as your vehicle. Just superb!!!
Matty Stanbrook
This had been sitting in my cart for a while and it was the First Nations Bushfire Donation that really pushed the sale. Thank you Brownswood for highlighting Australian peoples' needs and their music!
Favorite track: There Is No Time.
1. Phil Stroud - Banksia
2. Dufresne - Pick Up / Galaxy
3. Kuzich - There Is No Time
4. Audrey Powne - Bleeding Hearts
5. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Powers 2 (The People)
6. Laneous - Nice To See You
7. Silentjay - Eternal / Internal Peace
8. Horatio Luna - The Wake-Up
9. Allysha Joy - Orbit
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Sunny Side Up Double LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A1. Phil Stroud - Banksia
A2. Dufresne - Pick Up / Galaxy
B1. Kuzich - There Is No Time
B2. Audrey Powne - Bleeding Hearts
C1. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Powers 2 (The People)
C2. Laneous - Nice To See You
C3. Silentjay - Eternal / Internal Peace
D1. Horatio Luna - The Wake-Up
D2. Allysha Joy - Orbit
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via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Sunny Side Up Double LP (Exclusive Clear Green Coloured Vinyl)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A1. Phil Stroud - Banksia
A2. Dufresne - Pick Up / Galaxy
B1. Kuzich - There Is No Time
B2. Audrey Powne - Bleeding Hearts
C1. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Powers 2 (The People)
C2. Laneous - Nice To See You
C3. Silentjay - Eternal / Internal Peace
D1. Horatio Luna - The Wake-Up
D2. Allysha Joy - Orbit
Includes unlimited streaming of Sunny Side Up
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Sunny Side Up Double LP (Special Edition Magenta Coloured Vinyl)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A1. Phil Stroud - Banksia
A2. Dufresne - Pick Up / Galaxy
B1. Kuzich - There Is No Time
B2. Audrey Powne - Bleeding Hearts
C1. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Powers 2 (The People)
C2. Laneous - Nice To See You
C3. Silentjay - Eternal / Internal Peace
D1. Horatio Luna - The Wake-Up
D2. Allysha Joy - Orbit
Includes unlimited streaming of Sunny Side Up
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Sunny Side Up Double LP (Special Edition Green & Gold Vinyl)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
A1. Phil Stroud - Banksia
A2. Dufresne - Pick Up / Galaxy
B1. Kuzich - There Is No Time
B2. Audrey Powne - Bleeding Hearts
C1. Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Powers 2 (The People)
C2. Laneous - Nice To See You
C3. Silentjay - Eternal / Internal Peace
D1. Horatio Luna - The Wake-Up
D2. Allysha Joy - Orbit
Includes unlimited streaming of Sunny Side Up
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
A new generation of young, independent musicians, in share-houses and makeshift home studios, in the garages and backyard sheds of Melbourne’s suburban sprawl, have embraced a brash DIY spirit. Taking cues from soul, jazz and club culture, they’ve stamped an uninhibited style on a sun-bleached spool of influences. A snapshot of a movement that’s ready to boil over, the nine acts on ‘Sunny Side Up’ have grown out of a city free from the weight of overbearing musical traditions, where outside influences are freely re-interpreted and mashed together. A celebratory record, it’s energised by a collaborative spirit as much as by the variety of styles which it collides together.
The record documents a scene poised at saturation point, after steadily expanding since the breakout success Hiatus Kaiyote in 2012, with whom many of the record’s groups share members, friendships or studios. Nurtured by institutions like record shop Northside Records, this is an album which shows splashes of deep house, broken beat, cha-cha, samba, p-funk and soul. Unlike other cities with storied histories in jazz culture, the sound of Melbourne is free of any jazz customs to follow behind, leaving musicians free to incorporate hip hop, house or R&B. Jazz is the mindset, the output is infinitely diverse.
Recorded over a week at The Grove, a fabled house-cum-studio in the North Melbourne suburb of Coburg, nine of Melbourne’s hotly-tipped talents take the lead with their own take on a musical form rooted in jazz. Engineered & mixed by Nick Herrera (Hiatus Kaiyote, Nai Palm, 30/70), with Silentjay as musical director, the result is a colourful portrait of a scene’s potential. Sunny Side Up explores the story behind this flourishing period and shines light on some of its most compelling figures.
The personnel are drawn from a close-knit community, collectives like 30/70 and Mandarin Dreams acting as creative milieus, lending to each other’s style and influence, reflected in the fact that musicians feature multiple times across each other’s tracks on the album. Commonly ranked among the world’s most liveable cities, Melbourne has more live venues and record stores per capita than any other city. In a city as isolated from the world as Melbourne, where the scene has been largely overlooked by Australian music institutions, collaboration is second-nature to a hungry scene focused on building their own identity.
On ‘Banksia’, Phil Stroud conducts a winding spiritual meditation, the percussion virtuoso, whose cult club 12”s for Perth imprint Good Company have garnered support from DJs Bradley Zero and Anthony Naples, showing a more understated string to his bow. Dufresne, a multi-instrumentalist member of the Mandarin Dreams collective who’s toured with Sampa The Great, builds a funk-driven, horns-heavy call to the stars on ‘Pick Up / Galaxy’.
A project from Brownswood Recordings celebrating Melbourne's flourishing jazz scene.
Featuring tracks
from Phil Stroud, Dufresne, Kuzich, Audrew Powne, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, Laneous, Silentjay, Horatio Luna and Allysha Joy...more
Experimental electronics meet transformative spiritual jazz on the solo debut from Australian saxophonist Moshe (fka John Jelly, JK Group). Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 1, 2023
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JAJ is a legend-to-be. Excellent album. Excellent musicians and features. The groove on Yellow Dandelion is so simple but ooooof, it gets ya going. Digital Rendezvous
