This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Making Of Silk, the brand new album from jazz-soul multi-instrumentalist Allysha Joy.
Allysha Joy is a deeply expressive singer, songwriter, producer and keys player hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, known for both her solo work and as front woman of 30/70. A uniquely talented artist, her husky soulful voice, formidable Fender Rhodes prowess and raw poeticism has garnered legions of attentive fans the world over.
Joy has previously released two full-length solo albums Acadie : Raw in 2018, Torn : Tonic in 2022 and an EP, Light It Again in 2020, along with countless collaborations and features over the past few years. Entirely self-produced and affectionately poured over, The Making Of Silk is about a new understanding of the meaning of love.
Joy says, "it's the kind of love that bell hooks writes about, that lives in the poetry of Mary Oliver, Hafiz and the passionate dreaming of a Koryusai painting. It’s about a love that is compassionate, that lives in open conversation, deep listening, the front lines of social movement and would never seek to stifle the light in you. It’s about accepting our aloneness, the impermanence of all things and still forever wanting to prove it wrong, to say that I understand that all things change, all things end, hurt exists, but I will love regardless."
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from The Making Of Silk, and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl: simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday September 22. Please note vinyl giveaways must be picked up from the station in Collingwood.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Cool Out Sun - 'Asskin For More' feat. Sampa The Great
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - 'Stand Well Well'
Gaza Sisters - 'Mabazi'
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward'
Flying Lotus - 'Garmonbozia'
Velvet Parade - 'The Ghost'
Angie McMahon - 'Beginner'
Tim Reaper, Kloke - 'Alienation'
Solkyri - 'You Coward!' (Shambles II)
Porridge Radio - 'A Hole In The Ground'
