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All News Is Good News

by Surprise Chef

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achemi The groove is unreal. Favorite track: Flip Shelton.
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𝕍 𝕚 𝕣 𝕘 𝕠 ♕ 𝕍 𝕒 𝕟 𝕕 𝕒 𝕝 More magic from Melbourne. 🇦🇺 This location seems to solely breed the best music on the globe. Favorite track: Blyth Street Nocturne.
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jfhebert35 At 01:27 in song Yung Boi Suite (# 5) : is anyone else experimenting that «cut»/CD skip alike or thing?.. (I can «understand» the one at 01:30). I tried re-downloading, did not solve my problem. (...) Even bought the song on iTunes now but it’s still there (I’m just obsessed by the 01:26-01:31 sequence now)… But anyways, all in all, just an awesome discovery!!! 🎶❤️ Grooves that can’t leave the music lover indifferent.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    1) All News Is Good News
    2) Herbie Hemphill
    3) Blyth Street Nocturne
    4) Have You Fed Baby Huey Today
    5) Yung Boi Suite
    6) Crayfish Caper
    7) Flip Shelton
    8) Drinking From The Cup Of Bob Knob
    9) Mario's Lament

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    Includes unlimited streaming of All News Is Good News via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. All News Is Good News / A2. Herbie Hemphill / A3. Blyth Street Nocturne / A4. Have You Fed Baby Huey Today / A5. Yung Boi Suite / B1. Crayfish Caper / B2. Flip Shelton / B3. Drinking From The Cup Of Bob Knob / B4. Mario's Lament

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  • Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. All News Is Good News / A2. Herbie Hemphill / A3. Blyth Street Nocturne / A4. Have You Fed Baby Huey Today / A5. Yung Boi Suite / B1. Crayfish Caper / B2. Flip Shelton / B3. Drinking From The Cup Of Bob Knob / B4. Mario's Lament

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    Cassette + Digital Album

    50 copies - extremely limited edition cassette shipping from Mr Bongo.

    All News Is Good News / Herbie Hemphill / Blyth Street Nocturne / Have You Fed Baby Huey Today / Yung Boi Suite / Crayfish Caper / Flip Shelton / Drinking From The Cup Of Bob Knob / Mario's Lament

    Includes unlimited streaming of All News Is Good News via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. All News Is Good News / A2. Herbie Hemphill / A3. Blyth Street Nocturne / A4. Have You Fed Baby Huey Today / A5. Yung Boi Suite / B1. Crayfish Caper / B2. Flip Shelton / B3. Drinking From The Cup Of Bob Knob / B4. Mario's Lament

    Includes poster insert.

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about

“One of the finest soul and funk releases of the past 18 months.” Clash Magazine

“Soothing, atmospheric, disquieting.” MOJO Magazine

“Wonderful deep grooves.” Shindig

There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about 'All News Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne's instrumental soul group Surprise Chef. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and Janko Nilovic, with dramatic Library-music-eqsue cinematic arrangements echoing both light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. There is a meticulous education of 1970’s soul on display that touches on the legacies of the great composer / producers, yet at the same time this is a truly contemporary record that could have only been made now.

The first limited pressing of 'All News Is Good News’ was released on the band's own 'College Of Knowledge' imprint in November 2019. It slipped rapidly into the collective consciousness of underground music lovers around the world, with all copies selling out within a week and becoming a firm favourite at Mr Bongo HQ in the process. We felt Surprise Chef had made something very special, a future-classic, and that needed to be heard well beyond those lucky enough to have bagged those limited first copies.

Formed at the end of 2017, Surprise Chef have grown within the fertile, creative, and supportive Melbourne music scene. Whilst the band is comprised of four core members, the album features friends and family as guest instrumentalists on flute, saxophone, vibraphone, congas, and assorted percussion; all adeptly recorded by engineer Henry Jenkins from the band Karate Boogaloo. The warm-raw-authenticity of the album was captured in the recordings live to tape over a handful of sessions in the band’s home studio in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburb of Coburg. As band member Lachlan Stuckey explains “All of the music we record is tracked live to tape, simply because so many of the records we love most were made that way".

The results are a captivating journey of instrumental cinematic-soul that will connect with the hardened Axelrod, Truth & Soul, El Michels Affair, and Daptone's fans, as well as the open-minded first-time listener. We are very excited to share this first slice of Surprise Chef’s world, with plenty more magic from these guys coming around the corner very soon.

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released July 10, 2020

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Surprise Chef Melbourne, Australia

Surprise Chef are Coburg’s cinematic soul journeymen, pushing moody shades of instrumental jazz-funk with a DIY mentality.

The centrepiece of the College Of Knowledge Records roster, Surprise Chef’s output reflects a meticulous education of 1970’s soul, touching on the legacies of composer/producers David Axelrod & Isaac Hayes, with cues also taken from the catalogues of Daptone and Truth & Soul
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