Septober Energy
by Centipede
- Type: Album
- Released: 1971
- Label: Neon
- Country: United Kingdom
- Community rating: 3.69/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Assembled by pianist Keith Tippett and produced by Robert Fripp, this monumental double album features an unprecedented fifty-plus piece orchestra of British rock, jazz, and avant-garde musicians. The sprawling, four-part suite attempts to reconcile the chaotic freedom of European free jazz with the massive scale of classical orchestration and the driving energy of progressive rock. It is a staggering, completely unrepeatable feat of collaborative musical ambition.
Genres
Descriptors: Improvisation, Avant Garde, experimental, improvisation, progressive, dissonant, avant-garde
Tracklist
Credits
- Centipede - primary artist
- Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone
- Ian McDonald - alto saxophone
- Jan Steele - alto saxophone
- Elton Dean - alto saxophone, saxello [saxcello]
- David White - baritone saxophone, clarinet
- Karl Jenkins - baritone saxophone, oboe
- Brian Belshaw - bass
- Dave Markee - bass
- Harry Miller - bass
- Jeff Clyne - bass
- Jill Lyons - bass
- John Williams - bass saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Roy Babbington - bass, bass guitar
- Catherine Finnis - cello
- John Rees-Jones - cello
- Katherine Thulborn - cello
- Mike Hurwitz - cello
- Suki Towb - cello
- Tim Kramer - cello
- Julie Tippetts - composed by, vocals
- Keith Tippett - composed by, piano, music director [m.d.]
- Mark Charig - cornet
- Mongezi Feza - cornet [pocket]
- Robert Wyatt - drums, sleeve notes
- Tony Fennell - drums
- John Marshall - drums, percussion [all]
- Mike Thompson - engineer
- Pete King - executive-producer
- Brian Godding - guitar
- Ken Ley - photography by [centre photograph]
- Robert Fripp - producer
- Alan Skidmore - tenor saxophone
- Brian Smith - tenor saxophone
- Gary Windo - tenor saxophone
- Larry Stabbins - tenor saxophone
- Dave Amis - trombone
- Dave Perrottet - trombone
- Nick Evans - trombone
- Paul Rutherford - trombone
- Mick Collins - trumpet
- Peter Parkes - trumpet
- Ian Carr - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Carol Slater - violin
- Channa Salononson - violin
- Colin Kitching - violin
- Esther Burgi - violin
- Garth Morton - violin
- John Trusler - violin
- Louise Jopling - violin
- Micaela Comberti - violin
- Philip Saudek - violin
- Roderick Skeaping - violin
- Steve Rowlandson - violin
- Wendy Treacher - violin
- Wilf Gibson - violin [lead]
- Boz Burrell - vocals
- Maggie Nicols - vocals
- Mike Patto - vocals
- Zoot Money - vocals