Wentworth Kersey – ((O)) (Plastic Sound Supply Records)
Ethereal, gentle, tender and rather strange, until you come to grips with it. Even ‘insubstantial’ popped up as I wrote this, but it sounds too critical and I don’t want to call it that at all… it’s just that ‘insubstantial’ is a word that seems appropriate to music that seems to float above everything else and could get blown away at any minute. The next time I put this piece of plastic in my CD player I half expect the tracks to disappear, evaporate into the ether, leaving nothing but a blank silver disc.

Wentworth Kersey are an ear tonic to be sure, and apparently this is their third offering. Their previous two EPs are O and (O). I think I need to get to hear these as well, because more of the same could only be good for my general wellbeing and listening pleasure.

The cover of the gatefold card sleeve has two sepia-tinted photos, and the inner one is the give-away, as the front picture of the two artists only shows them head and shoulders, with a pistol barrel peeping up in the bottom left-hand corner. The inner photo, across the gatefold, has two men in mid-dive, off a cliff into a canyon… so Butch and Sundance it has to be. However, the connection with the music is beyond me, and maybe hearing the previous two EPs in this series may reveal all.

Of course, it may not be important, as this short musical journey is a total delight anyway… just like that film.
www.myspace.com/wentworthkersey
Kev A.

WENTWORTH KERSEY – SUN AND MOON

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