John Carroll Kirby - Septet

1LP Vinyl - STH2429

Septet is just too innocuous to be anything more than extraordinarily high-end lift music or hi-fi demonstration fodder, faultless and danger free, the kind of music so dynamic-less that you forget is playing after a while, that startles you only when it stops, as if the natural order of things should have it on loop forever more. There’s a sneaky suspicion that all this is deliberate — after all, a musician of Kirby’s calibre can’t have made something this characterless, this wilfully unobservable, by accident. If it is one great post-modern prank/observation, though, the joke’s on Kirby: so perfectly middle-of-the-road is Septet is that, on top of anything else, it’s also unprovocative to a tee.

Condition:

Media: Mint (M)

Sleeve: Mint (M)

Track List: 

A1. Rainmaker
A2. P64 By My Side
A3. Sensing Not Seeing
B1. Swallow Tail
B2. Weep
B3. Jubilee Horns
C1. The Quest of Chico Hamilton
C2. Nucleo
D1. Sensing Dub
D2. Jubilee Dub
D3. Nucleo Dub