Eastside Radio’s Album of the week is The Composer’s Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers by Elly Hoyt on the Earshift Music label

London based vocalist-composer Elly Hoyt’s third album The Composers’ Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers, out through Earshift Music, is a commissioning project that presents her alongside some of Melbourne’s best jazz artists

Motivated by recent discussions around women representation in the music industry and the experience of women in the arts, Hoyt reflects that she wanted to investigate women’s stories through composition: “I wanted to contribute to the diversity of representation in jazz composition, something I feel passionate about”, says Hoyt. “Women jazz composers in Australia have unique and interesting voices and deserve to be championed and performed by other musicians.”

The Composers’ Voice presents a diverse set of compositions from celebrated Australian composers including Andrea Keller, Gian Slater, Georgia Weber, Louise Denson, Sonja Horbelt, Shannon Barnett, Tamara Murphy and Hoyt herself. The music is brought to life by an all-star band including pianist Andrea Keller, trumpeter Mat Jodrell, saxophonist Julien Wilson, trombonist James Macaulay, bassist Sam Anning and drummer James McLean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZ1Lo1ZEIQ

Artist: Elly Hoyt

Titel: The Composer’s Voice: Celebrating Australian Women Composers

1.Engines On

2.Break the System

3.New Orleans

4.If Death Is Kind

5.Here We Go

6.Like All Things New

7.Hear Me