Eastside 89.7 FM

Umami Junction

14.06.26

Aired on Sunday 14th June 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

    Betty Davis

    You and I

  2. 0:22

    Racing Mount Pleasant

    Regulate

  3. 5:22

    Susumu Yokota

    Blue Sky And Yellow Sunflower

  4. 16:13

    Sudan Archives

    Come Meh Way

  5. 16:16

    Suki Waterhouse

    Johanna

  6. 18:40

    Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes

    Expansions

  7. 23:28

    Kate Moth

    Too late To go Outside

  8. 31:48

    Remi Wolf

    Soup

  9. 35:54

    Yadava

    Hiromasa's Interlude

  10. 40:22

    Cameron Winter

    The Rolling Stones

  11. 43:11

    Asha Puthli

    Space Talk

  12. 46:33

    Truthpaste

    Swill To The Swine

  13. 53:02

    Hiro Ama, Daniel Brandt

    Everything Is Going To Make Sense In The End

  14. 59:48

    Eiko Ishibashi

    Drive My Car

  15. 1:05:20

    Miso Extra, Rejjie Snow

    Hypnotic Pickpocket

  16. 1:09:53

    Kourosh Yaghmaei

    Tak Derakht

  17. 1:13:11

    Camarao Orkestra

    Nacao Africa

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