Eastside 89.7 FM

Umami Junction

10.05.26

Aired on Sunday 10th May 2026, 11:00PM

Umami Junction explores the connections between music, food, community and conversation. To me, food and music are the foremost means of cultural connection – marrying the two is so natural!115 years ago, scientists identified the flavour profile ‘Umami’; that funky, savoury, bridge between sweet, salty, bitter, and sour, known as ‘The Fifth Taste’. They named it Umami, after the Japanese word for delicious ‘Umai’. The principle of the fifth taste can be applied to the music my show will highlight; scratching that itch for genre-bending, norm- smashing, culture-celebrating jazz, funk, electronic, R&B and soul tunes.Each week, I’ll select a meal or an ingredient, perhaps bring on a guest who I’ve shared this with, and spin a selection of tracks that evoke the feeling of these ingredients.

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Tracklist

  1. 01

    Thelonious Monk

    Caravan

  2. 0:45

    Tyler, The Creator, ft A$AP Rocky

    Potato Salad

  3. 13:43

    Penguin Cafe Orchestra

    Perpetuum Mobile

  4. 14:06

    Cake

    The DIstance

  5. 22:42

    Jerome Blaze

    Living Room

  6. 22:59

    Parquet Courts

    Stoned and Starving

  7. 27:23

    Daniel lopatin

    The Apple

  8. 33:05

    Astrid Sonne

    Give my all - Blood Orange EDIT

  9. 40:18

    David Byrne

    Glass, Concrete & Stone

  10. 40:38

    MR Doom

    Rapp Snitch Knishes

  11. 44:34

    Rhye

    Taste

  12. 59:31

    Aphex Twin

    Acrid Avid Jam Shred

  13. 59:55

    Childish Gambino

    IV. Sweatpants

  14. 1:04:31

    Boards of Canada

    Roygbiv

  15. 1:04:57

    Joe Henderson

    Me, Among Others

  16. 1:07:18

    The Apples In Stereo

    About your Fame

  17. 1:14:33

    Wet Leg

    Chaise Longue

  18. 1:19:48

    Getdown Services

    Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat

  19. 1:21:08

    Naima Bock

    Feed My Release

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