Music to see through

WMINCD034 latest release featuring the Ensemble at their creative best and joined by three very unique Australian voices - Robert Forster from the Go-Betweens, the wonderful Lisa Miller and the extraordinary Amanda Stewart.

The opening track Panopticon recently won Instrumental Work of the Year at the 2006 Australian Classical Music Awards. Three pieces from this ablum were shortlisted.

Double CD. On WMinc Records. Distributed by Shock.

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'A quiet intensity and a thoughtful concentration pervade each piece, resulting in some quite luminescent moments. An accomplished man at work.' Ken Hollings -The Wire, London

'Music To See Through reaches many high points. Its a consumate sound world inhabited by data flow, electronic twitterings and distant rumblings, overlaid with a delicate vibraphone reverie.' Keith Gallasch - Realtime Sydney

Badlands

WMINCD008
Release date 16/11/98

Double CD on WMinc Records. Distributed by Shock

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"Badlands Suite", is based on excerpts from Carl Orff's "Musica Poetica", which David heard on the soundtrack for Terrence Malick's film "Badlands". Later he bought a recording of Orff's "Das Schulwerk", performed by German school children, and loved the uncomplicated nature of the repeating motifs and a certain unnerving quality that reminded him, in some ways, of his own music. The connection was strong enough for him to embark on the reworking of two excerpts from each work, which resulted in "Badlands Suite".

"The recording is simple and immediate. Each listening, however, opens the ears to the complex interplay lurking below."

"Trombone, strings, piano and tuned percussion combine with crackling telephone transmissions, far-away bells, pan pipes played by the desert wind and barely-in-control electronic effects in a work that is beautiful, vivid, narcotic and seriously habit forming."
Graham Lee

Exotica Suite

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Described as "a child of Igor Stravinsky and cartoon composer Carl Stalling!" Chesworth's music plays oblique homage to a vast array of music genres and sound sources. His ensemble of highly skilled musicians tackles anything from fiery contrapuntal duets to "incredibly strange" South Sea ambiences.

"Something is definitely happening here and it has nothing to do with rock & roll. That David Chesworth Ensemble's new CD Exotica Suite, arrives just as cocktail culture is fizzing is a happy conjunction." Brent Clough, Rolling Stone

"Chesworth is a serious composer. But he's a wild card who kicks against the constraints of musical pigeon-holing and expectation." Lesley Sly, 24 Hours