Panghalina 'Lava' album launch / Essendon Airport

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

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Panghalina 'Lava' album Launch / Essendon Airport

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Doors 6:30pm

7pm Essendon Airport

8pm Panghalina

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted

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limited number of unwaged pre-sales available

Free First Nations tix

All tix $25 on the door

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PANGHALINA

Panghalina brings together three of Australia’s most compelling and innovative soloists to explore themes of sonic duality. A trio grounded in improvisation and experimentation, Panghalina is comprised of Helen Svoboda (voice, double bass), Bonnie Stewart (voice, drums, percussion) and Maria Moles (synth, drums, percussion). Each musician in the trio is an established composer and performer in their own right and has developed their own distinctive approach to sound, often using instrumental preparations and non-conventional techniques to extend their mastery on their given instrument.

The music shifts through moments of frenetic texture, morphing into hypnotic grooves and restless motifs. The unique instrumentation spawns a sonic patchwork of overlapping duos within the trio format, creating possibilities for various concentrated sound worlds to emerge; the dense carpet of rich textures and rhythms across two percussionists, enveloped by wordless gestures between the two ethereal vocals, glued together by the unity of high frequencies in the arco bass harmonics and synthesizer.

Panghalina is touring their debut album 'Lava' in early 2024, which will be released on Room40 on Feb 2. 

Lava is an ode to the connections between sound, emotion and human experience, exploring the interplay of sonic duality. The overlapping duos within the trio framework brought forth uncharted possibilities, allowing each of us to weave our individuality into the improvisations. 

The crafting of the record revealed the project’s distinctiveness. With an instant resonance, we found ourselves drawn to this project - a canvas that allows various aspects within our artistic practices to flourish. The album encapsulates the dialogue between our spirits and the music, celebrating the alignment of artistic kinship. 

We’ve named the album ‘Lava’, drawing inspiration from the melding of our sounds that resonates with the characteristics of molten rock - its subdued, unhurried motion juxtaposed against its fiery core. Just as molten rock emerges from a terrestrial planet, our collaboration springs forth from a distinctive sonic realm that is exclusively our own

ESSENDON AIRPORT

“Essential illogic and quirked delight...one of the treasures of the postpunk era”
- Simon Reynolds

Essendon Airport began in Melbourne in 1979 as the duo of Robert Goodge on guitar and David Chesworth on Wurlitzer electric piano, along with a home-made drum machine bought from the Trading Post. Beginning life at the experimental Clifton Hill
Community Music Centre, Essendon Airport went on to perform in Melbourne’s newly emerging post-punk venues such as the Crystal Ballroom, Tiger Lounge and the Trade Union Club in Sydney. 

The duo released their EP 'Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial' in 1979 and joined with Anne Cessna for the infectious 'Talking To Cleopatra' single in 1980. Gentle, inquisitive and subtly experimental, Essendon Airport were described by the UK's Melody Maker magazine in 1981 as “the vinyl equivalent of an attractive lisp.”

Essendon Airport described themselves as “attempting to combine many of the most facile and insipid kinds of music in a redeemingly dignified manner.” 

Essendon Airport later expanded to explore the possibilities of rhythm. First came classically-untrained drummer Paul Fletcher and saxophonist Ian Cox to form the four piece lineup heard on their only album ‘Palimpsest’. With its dryly intoned vocals, flailing polyrhythms and a post-modern fascination with appropriation and quotation, the album is an eccentric post-punk classic. After ‘Palimpsest’, Essendon Airport added bassist Barbara Hogarth and grew to become one of inner-city Melbourne’s premiere live outfits.

 Disbanding in 1983, Goodge, Cox and Hogarth went on to form ‘I’m Talking’ with singer Kate Ceberano; Goodge also created the famed Yothu Yindi ‘Treaty’ remix with ‘Filthy Lucre’. Chesworth took a different direction pursuing music and art-based projects, including collaborations with artist Sonia Leber with sound and video works exhibited at the Venice and Sydney Biennales. 

Essendon Airport occasionally reform in their varying line-ups. For this performance, Robert and David are joined by their bassist Barbara Hogarth and the dulcet tones of pedal steel player Graham Lee [Triffids, KLF’s Chillout ] playing music from their minimalist phase.

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ACCESSIBILITY Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option. We regret we are unable to provide accessible toilet facilities at this time, although there is wheelchair access to the hand washing sink which is a private space. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. There are no windows that are openable in the space but we will open the double doors between sets for airflow. The space is quite cavernous with high ceilings and is an un-renovated warehouse so not tightly sealed. We do not have our own HEPA filter but try to source one for gigs when we can. Please contact eastmintrecords@gmail.com if you require any other info