CDs (available as digital downloads)
From Another Room
sound-paintings for solo piano
2007
Each of the tracks on this album are improvised meditations or "sound-paintings" for solo piano, inspired by a specific artwork.
Recorded, mixed & mastered in Zürich, Switzerland by Madlaina Meili
Graphics by Vivienne Hamilton, Castlemaine, Australia.
Visual and text artists include, Valerie Chetelat, Anni Coyne, Kristin Diemer, Jane Osborne, Alison Pouliot, Olivier Sutter, Helen Davey.
All compositions by Helen Davey
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Carvings
Poetic Urban Folksongs
2011
Twelve original songs, about life leaving its tracings as an artwork, on the canvas of ourselves - carving who we are.
David Aebli (double bass, bouzouki, mandolin, guitar),
Helen Davey (voices, piano, guitars, hackbrett, accordion) and
Ferdi Rauber (gongs, tablas, udu, didjeridoo, djembe, frame drum, chimes). Artwork by Barb Wagner.
Graphics by Viv Hamilton.
Recorded by Heinz Affolter, Lakeside Studios, Switzerland.
Mixed by Ruth Bieri, Studio Sud, Switzerland.
Co-produced by Christoph Stiefel & Helen Davey.
All compositions by Helen Davey
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Trans-Lations
experimental art music
2012
Part of a broader cross-arts women's project, the music on this album is at once, quirky, light hearted, dissonant, sometimes sentimental and occasionally outrageous. Wholly improvised, contemporary art music.
Brigitte Meyer (cello, voice and guitar)
Helen Davey (prepared/piano, voice, accordion, and percussion);
Recorded at the immortal Kult-Bau, Switzerland by Ruth Bieri.
Mixed & mastered at Studio Sud, Switzerland by Ruth Bieri.
graphics by Viv Hamilton, Castlemaine Australia.
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Project 52: vol 1 - March Equinox album
sound-paintings for artworks
2014 (Total running time, 1 hour 17 mins).
1 Kathryn Portelli
2 Helen Hiebert
3 Petrus Spronk
4 Ann Lewis
5 Guillaume Apollinaire
6 Cornelius Cardew
7 Bronle Crosby
8 Felice Panagrosso
9 Jenifer Hetherington
10 Casey Klahn
11 Maggie Ruley
12 Jim Carpenter
13 Gerda Tobler
14 Nature's canvas (bonus track)
This album is a digital CD documenting the project "52 Sound-Paintings"
Helen Davey: all compositions, vocals and instruments (accordion, guitars, zither, prepared/piano, lap harp, percussion, hackbrett).
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Project 52: vol 2 - June Solstice album
Sound-Paintings for artworks
2014 (Total running time, 1 hour 4 mins).
14 Pete Goodlet - “Ode to Sharon - a Curvy Caravan”
15 Kathleen O'Brian - "The Phi in Five"
16 Cynthia Morris - "Montmarte Stole her Heart"
17 Mark Payne - "Being Carried"
18 Juli Cady Ryan - All Takes Time"
19 Shakespeare - "Sonnet 52"
20 Jack Fisher - "Reflecting on Elelel"
21 Nanci Hersh -"Khrussalis"
22 Padraig McCaul - "Under Minaun"
23 Laurie LeBreton - "Music for Libraries - hail Brian Eno"
24 Sophia Khan - "Ferrandina"
25 Linnet Hunter - "Moving past the Mirror"
26 Lisa Call - “Petite Fugue”
This is a digital CD to document the project "52 Sound-Paintings".
Helen Davey: all compositions, vocals and instruments (accordion, guitars, zither, prepared/piano, lap harp, percussion, hackbrett).
Listen and buy it here