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The Number of Magic | 
| Artist: Richard H. Kirk
Label: Tvt
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 159307
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 016581723320
EAN: 0016581723320
ASIN: B000003RH4
Release Date: June 27, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Lost Souls on Funk | | • | Love Is Deep | | • | So Digital | | • | Indole Ring | | • | East of Nima | | • | Atomic | | • | Poets Saints Revolutionaries | | • | Monochrome Dream | | • | The Number of Magic |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Certainly strange January 25, 2003
filterite (Dublin, Ireland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is as odd as you can get from Richard H Kirk.....known for his paranoid music filled with Cabaret Voltaire and in his early solo recordings.....this record feels rather subdued yet strangely addictive. A work of genius that it is that he can do this but you still feel ( or perhaps yearn ) for something more abrasive and paranoid. Nonetheless this is truly something something special.....just don't think it'll be in the Cabaret Voltaire style of things
It's so digital! October 16, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This CD took me a year to get into. It's an odd one, very simplistic-seeming and a little on the creepy tip, but after a long while it started to grow on me.Ricard H. Kirk -he and his many pseudonames- is a strange musician. His way of doing things sounds very cloistered -he drops layers in, he takes them out again, very basic operations- but his music is sophisticated, with much of the brilliance coming from the dynamics, the loud and the nearly silent and how they fuse and mingle. It takes a lot from the listener at first, an easing up on the gears, and of course it's best played on a really good system, but this is a quiet little album that's a keeper for anyone who perserveres to the point where all the shifts and changes are second nature. In a word: contemplative. Reminds me of some of the mellower Orb songs, particularly "Spanish Castles in Space." Onobtrusive but bold in spite of the fact, which is a rare, refined combination. Like good wine as opposed to good beer - it gives you a better buzz and doesn't burn your tongue.
buy this CD June 25, 1999
dgapinsk@indiana.edu (U.S.)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of Kirk's best releases since CV broke up. More dub-oriented with heavy sampling of a variety of bizzare instruments and tripped out tape delays. Laid-back grooves, but complex enough to keep the listener interested. I'd recommend this album to any fan of electronic music.
An eclectic mix of melody and electronica April 10, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of Richard H. Kirks first of many releases after Cabaret Voltare, without sounding alot like the latter. The Cd is fairly downtempo with a balance of light melodic textures and various drum samplings. I myself can work my graveyard shift without it putting me asleep due to the fact that each track is different than the last. Not dark not fluffy but nicely in-between. A prize for any musical collector.
A melodic and fissured adventure through electronica. October 19, 1998
Adam Robert Palmer (Long Island City, NY USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Number of Magic is magical indeed. Kirk combines a stream of bits and bytes that approach heaven. Look no further if you desire an "ambient/trance/break-beat/world/techno" experience. Definitely hard to classify, since there are no bounds in Kirk's realm. Be sure to witness the track entitled "East of Nima," for it is simply breathtaking.
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