{"product_id":"essendon-airport-sonic-investigations-of-the-trivial-cd","title":"Essendon Airport - Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEssendon Airport began as a duo in Melbourne in 1978 with Robert Goodge on guitar and David Chesworth on Wurlitzer electric piano, along with a home-made drum machine bought from the Trading Post.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey performed around Melbourne’s newly emerging post-punk inner city venues such as the Crystal Ballroom, various galleries such as the George Paton and the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (CHCMC), a venue for experimental music, performance and film during this time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe duo released the EP Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial in 1979 and Talking To Cleopatra\/Lost In Madagascar, a single featuring vocalist Anne Cessna, in 1980 – both on Innocent Records, the label David Chesworth ran with Tch Tch Tch’s Philip Brophy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSonic Investigations Of The Trivial was described at the time as ‘…songs which combine many of the most facile and insipid kinds of music in a redeemingly dignified manner…creating new trivia out of old. All this takes place along with a kind of pedantic fetishism for small-repetition games – the music travels in circles, spirals and solid blocks of sameness and difference.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe band later became a four piece with drums and sax\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e, and finally a five piece with bass, before disbanding in 1983. The 1981 Essendon Airport LP Palimpsest documents their quartet lineup.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Music’s reissue of Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial includes both of their singles, a track from the New Music 1978\/79 compilation on Innocent Records, and six tracks recorded live at Essendon Airport’s first live performance in 1979.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If this were merely \"Wallpaper Music\", as one title alleges, Lord Irvine would have it piped to his rooms.” The Wire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The vinyl equivalent of an attractive lisp.” Melody Maker, February 1981\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–Chapter Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=291799962\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/essendonairport.bandcamp.com\/album\/sonic-investigations-of-the-trivial\"\u003eSonic Investigations Of The Trivial by Essendon Airport\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\/p\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chapter Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67567896821942,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a2049439550_10.jpg?v=1790918825","url":"https:\/\/repressedrecords.com\/products\/essendon-airport-sonic-investigations-of-the-trivial-cd","provider":"Repressed Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}