Essendon Airport - 'Palimpsest'

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Anyone heard this album? Could anyone copy it for me?

PhilT's got me in love with the earlier duo stuff, and I'd really love to hear the later larger-group stuff, but I'm unable to find it anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

― I.M. (I.M.), Sunday, 15 May 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

only heard the singles sorry but there is a comp cd(or cd-r) with all the stuff

― le planete sauvage, Sunday, 15 May 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i am hesitant. i never liked chesworth much. have you heard i'm talking?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 15 May 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't the (official) comp cover precisely the aforementioned duo stuff only, such that the Palimpsest LP remains out of print? A band site ) says that "It is hoped that the LP Palimpsest will be re-released eventually."

Which is a long way of saying I can't help, but I too would like to hear this.

xpost: Chesworth was involved in I'm Talking?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 15 May 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that whole scene thing i never "got" tch tch tch etc.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 15 May 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont know what this is. but i love the name of the artist

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 15 May 2005 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw them live a couple of weeks ago and picked up the 'sonic investigations of the trivial' cd comp - i've never seen the lp around, although the 7" they did with anne cessna turns up on ebay every now and then.

― wombatX (wombatX), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

'Palimpsest' is from after Essendon Airport expanded their ranks - there's, what, 5 or 6 players on there I think? It's okay, but nowhere near as special as those duo recordings on 'Sonic Investigations of the Trivial'. It has a bit of a wacky jazz feel at times. Nice screen-printed cover though.

After hearing 'Palimpsest' you can *kind of* understand how Essendon Airport eventually turned into I'm Talking and thus unleashed Kate Ceberano on the world.

― jwd, Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, only four members in the group on 'palimpsest'.

i was a bit sad that the 'sonic investigations' comp didn't include the track from the 'new music 1980' comp, "a minor problem". that's a good one.

― jwd, Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

...how Essendon Airport eventually turned into I'm Talking and thus unleashed Kate Ceberano on the world.

So there really is a link! I have learned something here, good people. : )

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like Australia's own, very special version of the Pop Group - Rip Rig & Panic - Neneh Cherry trajectory isn't it.

"Very Special" in the 60 Minutes Schappelle Corby exclusive sense obv.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i'm talking happened after chesworth left. correct?

we need PhilT here to clear everything up. i'm working on years-past memory...

(finney classic and otm yet again.)

― jwd, Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Chesworth was ever in I'm Talking.

― wombatX (wombatX), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

haha and there i was thinking i made that EA -> i'm talking link up.
btw I'm talkings first record has a disco song on one side and ambientish sketches on the other. i think it was for a *lookout* art video. matter of fact i think it was in the syd biennale.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. Fascinating. You people seem to possess enough under-documented details to warrant a distinct I Love (or Had A Youthful Famility With) Largely Forgotten Australian 70's-80's Music board.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

o we need another pseudo echo thread!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

well, here is philT but I'm sorry to say i have no idea who was in what and where it all led as they were all in melb and i only ever saw them when they toured. however, "i'm talking" did have some people from "equal local" in it and, probably, more of the chesworth kinda musos. they were all mixed up in the "hot half hour big band" as well and "use no hooks" too.

i saw "i'm talking" a couple of times and they were just plain terrific, although i tired of them very quickly. the recorded output is dire in comparison. a few of them went on to be session musos. what a dull life.

― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty years pass...

New album in October!
https://essendonairport.bandcamp.com/album/mor

More than four decades since first disbanding, Essendon Airport's 21st century incarnation features original collaborators David Chesworth and Robert Goodge, early 80s bandmates Paul Fletcher (percussion) and Barbara Hogarth (bass), plus pedal steel guitarist Graham Lee (The Triffids, KLF).

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 September 2025 22:47 (eight months ago)

Blimey. Lee/pedal steel doesn't seem the most obvious addition, but the new track seems to work?! While otherwise sounding freakishly like a lost track from 40 years ago. Interesting.

― Fed up with your constant and uniform motion (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 24 September 2025 03:04 (eight months ago)

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