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'White Magic' - Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy

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Mar 25, 2011 Updated Apr 1, 2011

The second collaboration from the Church frontman and the founding father of All India Radio.

Track List:

1.The Demo
2.Close
3.Intense
4.Inner Country
5.Unfocused
6.Mountain
7.Hope
8.Dreamstate
9.Sumer
10.Messiah Around
11.The Broken Sea

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The two Australians’ approaches to music and art seem to have been made for one another. Both are serious artistes in the old school, classical sense. They work in multiple mediums, including poetry, painting, animation, and, of course, music. On a more tangible level, Kennedy’s lush, film-like, downtempo soundscapes were an ideal backdrop for Kilbey’s ageless, arch, silky croon and stream-of-consciousness lyrics. A match made if not in Heaven, then certainly in Nirvana.

[ John Bergstrom, Pop Matters ]

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Steven John Kilbey is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a five piece "cabaret band" called 'Saga' in Canberra, Australia. He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey...

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