INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT!

CINTA

Friday January 10th at 6pm sharp!

CINTA drops her sophomore album WORTH CONTROL that has been described as “Australia’s soul album of the year” it’s an amazing second album, rather than it being a chronological artistic step forward, it feels as though we’ve turned inward, taking a deeper, more introspective journey into the heart of our expression. We’ve sharpened the vision we had for our first record, and ‘Worth Control’ truly shows how we’ve grown and come into our own. Like any good musicians we’re equally enamoured by the classics as we are contemporary, boundary-stretching music, so our goal is always to marry these ideas within our own composition. This union of old and new-school creates a solid platform for our wonderful songwriter, Cinta to demonstrate the magnitude of her vulnerable and authentic storytelling.

Local soul / r&b goodness to help start your year and ours. Come to the show, Grab a copy of the record then kick on to the @theevelynhotel later that night as CINTA brings in a whole bunch more friends on the bigger stage and jams the night away. Get tix for the Evelyn gig and come to the INSTORE starting at 6pm or be convinced to keep on….

All INSTORES are free and funky and we do have a prize for the BEST DANCER.

4 x INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENTS

This November we host 4 incredible INSTORES in a week – my birthday week!

7th Nov – @audreypowne 6pm
8th Nov – @misskaninna 5:30pm – sharp!!
14th Nov – @__ellathompson__  6pm
15th Nov – @fultonstreetband 6pm

All local funky super heroes doing their thing to make you dance and share their latest projects with us all. Their records will be available to buy and maybe even get signed!!!

All INSTORES are wild live performances that are free and ALL AGES. Please join us at the exact start time as instores are rather quick, and funky. So funky in fact that at all instores there will be a prize for the best dancer…

So much amazing talent is coming out of this town and I’m excited to share it with you guys.

All instores are held on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

After more than a decade of lighting up Australia’s soul scene and stages across the country, Fulton Street is all grown up with the release of their sophomore album ‘Hard Truths’ – and they aren’t holding back. Raw and real, ‘Hard Truths’ is forthright funk that shoots straight from the heart. Made with great reverence to the roots of funk and soul, ‘Hard Truths’ is made up of 11 songs recorded directly to tape. Produced and mixed by Fulton Street’s very own Jamie Stroud, the album was recorded with Alex Bennett from Sound Recordings in Castlemaine and is a tribute to the rawness of analogue recording, resulting in a sound that makes you feel like you are right there in the room. From their Uni days, Fulton Street has retained a truly vibrant sound that has only grown into a lion’s roar. Recorded and produced to perfection, ‘Hard Truths’ is a record for retro music lovers who are looking to hear something true.

Ella Thompson’s new record Ripple on the Wing is a soaring 10 song collection – a sweet and spooky modern take on classic soul music. With echoes of 1960’s lowrider love songs and haunting cinematic arrangements; Ella sings songs of personal empowerment & self-realisation alongside classic themes of love & longing.  A sweet and spooky modern take on classic soul music. With echoes of 1960’s lowrider love songs and haunting cinematic arrangements; Ella sings songs of personal empowerment & self-realisation alongside classic themes of love & longing.

Backed by an impeccable band featuring members of Surprise Chef with other Melbourne soul luminaries; Ripple on the Wing’s production palette is an intoxicating blend of the acoustic & amplified – with harpsichord, piano & flute melding with classic funky drums, organ, guitar along with those sweet vocal harmony singalong ‘oohs & ahhhs’ that make everything alright.

Trumpeter, pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, award winner, legend, Audrey Powne is beginning our incredible week with an incredible night! Starting at 6pm she will be able to share her incredible DEBUT LP “From The Fire”. Audrey is one of our most important musicians in town  and this incredible album puts her on a world stage.

Join us at 6pm and be sharp (Jazz joke)

LIVE INSTORE PERFORMANCE

 

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT

OWELU DREAMHOUSE

live INSTORE
FRIDAY AUG 30th 6pm

launching
DEBUT SINGLE “Africa Baba”

Join us next FRIDAY at 6pm SHARP as we welcome in an act that has been cooking for a decade at least. Led by NKECKI ANELE and NICK RYAN-GLENNIE who both started out in SASKWATCH but have brought together a new supergroup bring soul, psyche and AFROBEAT to the mix. 

Check out the single here and get down next FRIDAY to get your copy of the latest Northside 7″ done with these legends who in Saskwatch signed a promise in 2012 to keep it funky and they can hold their heads up high (and funkily)

All INSTORES are FREE and ALL AGES and there of course will be a prize for the best dancer.

INSTORE ANNOUNCEMENT

@emmavolardmusic

Friday 14th June 6pm

Come and celebrate the release of another amazing album by one of Naarm’s most happening superstars!  Her new album ALIBI is released on the 14th, and is gravely real and at times confronting. It debates the wholly complex and resilient growth of finding oneself and grieving the life you thought you needed/wanted. “That’s what this album was made for; connection, expression and restoration.” –  Volard

It’s funk and jazzy and always soulful, it’s Emma at her best. Come along and see if you can win the prize for the best dancer.

All instores are FREE and ALL AGES and start and happen at 6pm sharp.
This full band LIVE PERFORRMANCE will take place on sacred Wurundjeri land – and we acknowledge that this land was never ceded.

KARATE BOOGALOO live instore

FRIDAY MAY 3rd 6pm

Next Friday join us as we celebrate not only JAMES BROWNS BIRTHDAY but also the release of KARATE BOOGALOO’s new album HOLD YOUR HORSES.

Growing up in a high school funk band means these guys only know one thing. The good foot. We are all going to get on it next Friday to celebrate with these protectors of THE ONE, the wonky one.

MISTA REX wil be laying down the James Brown sound as we have a birthday cake (vegan + gluten free!!) for his royal funkiness before AND after the Boogers give it their all.

Of course there will be a prize for the best dancer.

All instores are FREE and ALL AGES. Come one come all. Tell your friends. Coming out on Colemine Records and College Of Knowledge Records. BIG TIME.

This party will be held on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and we pay rspects to elders past and present, and we acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.