ESSENDON AIRPORT - CD PALIMPSEST

Popis - PALIMPSEST:
Chapter is very excited to announce a 30th anniversary reissue of Palimpsest, the one and only album by Melbourne post-punk
icons Essendon Airport. Recorded in December 1981, Palimpsest
is now reborn as a double disc package with a whole bonus CD of
live and unreleased studio recordings spanning 1980-83. Originally gentle and inquisitive, with beats supplied by a drum machine ripped from a home organ, Essendon Airport began to expand after Sonic Investigations and explore the possibilities of rhythm. First came classically-untrained drummer Paul Fletcher, and then saxophonist Ian Cox, to form the four piece lineup heard on Palimpsest. With its dryly intoned vocals, flailing polyrhythms and a postmodern
fascination with appropration and quotation, the album
is an eccentric post-punk classic. The album title means "a manu page from which the text has been scraped off to be used again", while the original liner notes state "all" "songs" "written" "and" "produced" "by" "Essendon Airport". The bonus
Live+More disc collates 18 recordings, from the duo period to the impressivly muscular, previously undocumented five piece
lineup. The original 1982 vinyl version of Palimpsest was presented in .
Disc One: Palimpsest (1981)
1. Correct Pitch? 2. No Quarter 3. Re-Funkt 4. I Feel A Song Coming On 5. Jig 6. Like Young 7. Trad Jazz 8. Science Of Sound intro 9. Science Of Sound 10. Beguine 11. What Is This Thing Called Funk? 12. Rhythm Method 13. Entrance Of the Gladiators
14. Happy Ending
Disc Two: Live + More (1980-83)
1. Bouncy Bouncy 2. B52 3. Thirds 4. Fragment...Waiting 5. Seven 6. Two Different Worlds 7. Waltzing In The Clouds 8. Aversion 9. Playschool 10. Oi 1234 11. Vistas For Emotion 12.
Martial Art 13. Blame It On The Jacksons 14. Bland 15. What I Like About Disco 16. Rock The Falafel Bar 17. Transfusion Express 18. Lets Get Funktional