The BBC DJ is championing the nebulous new genre, releasing a compilation recorded in its epicentre – a bungalow in Coburg called the Grove
In Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne, there’s an unassuming bungalow with a broken air-conditioning unit settling into its unmown lawn. It might not look like much but the house has a mythic status among Melbourne musicians. It’s here that a new compilation of music from the city’s boundary-pushing young jazz scene was recorded in November for the celebrated DJ Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings – a companion piece to the label’s 2018 We Out Here compilation of emerging London jazz.
Known as the Grove, the property is part of a string of share house studios where the twice Grammy-nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote – the scene’s most famous export – has recorded its music. But this compilation, Sunny Side Up, largely focuses on two groups of interconnected musicians, 30/70 Collective and Mandarin Dreams (who include the Hiatus Kaiyote drummer, Perrin Moss) – a second wave of artists working in Melbourne’s nebulous future-jazz and neo-soul world.
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