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Vanishing Tekopia

CD

Vanishing Tekopia / David Chesworth Ensemble

  • Published by David Chesworth — 2011 [DCE010] — 1 CD (60 min.)
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: CD 2299 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Vanishing Tekopia (2011) — unspecified voice with chamber ensemble David Chesworth David Chesworth, Andrea Keeble, Helen Mountfort, John McAll, Adrian Sheriff, Peter Neville, Eugene Ughetti, Robert Goodge, Jeremy Alsop, Joanne Kuluveovski, Melissa Webb 59 mins, 30 sec.

Product details

Vanishing Tekopia is a brand new album of classic Chesworth proportions, music that is both a requiem to and a consequence of the process of cultural absorption and assimilation.

The two singers of the ensemble have mastered an invented phonetic language which has been specially devised by Chesworth for this album.

Vanishing Tekopia refers obliquely to a tiny island with a small population and distinctive culture that is slowly vanishing beneath the Pacific Ocean as global warming increases sea levels. But it also refers to many minority cultural 'islands' throughout the world which are under threat of vanishing, as pressures from larger environmental, political and economic forces take their toll. These include the Hmong in Laos, the Ogoni in the Niger Delta and the Naga in northern India

Perfomers:

David Chesworth - electronics

Andrea Keeble - violin

Helen Mountfort - cello

John McAll - piano

Adrian Sherriff - bass trombone, shakuhachi

Peter Neville - vibes, marimba, kit, doumbek

Eugene Ughetti - vibes, marimba, kit

Robert Goodge - guitar, mandolin, tiple

Jeremy Alsop - electric bass

Joanne Kuluveovski - vocals

Melissa Webb - vocals, taisho koto, bulbul tarang, kaen, auto harp

Duration: 60 min.

Contents note:

Drift daughters of canama -- Dee dang dang -- Dragonfly -- Farla meego -- Apoh jenah -- Kukoya air -- Luna camor lordi -- Tekopia -- Bandana stramm.


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