"4.5 STARS. Occasionally side projects can be something really spectacular. There's a sense of nostalgia, like flipping through an old photo album or late night dreams full of fleeting images. This isn't an album where you pick favourite songs - you simply immerse yourself in the whole lush experience." – Reverb Magazine

"Kilbey's silky evocative voice seductively narrates his suitably dreamy lyrics over Kennedy's cooly opiated atmospheric song structures, recalling nothing so much as The Church at their most stately, subdued and grand." – Dream Magazine

A Shaman Poet and a Musical Mystic.
An Astral Wordsmith and a Dream Weaver.
A Lyrical High Priest and a Soulful Sorcerer.

Pull back the red velvet curtain, switch on a single spotlight and allow Kilbey & Kennedy to summon up their own brand of hypnotic reverie. Following on from the success of their debut Unseen Music/Unheard Words they prove their pairing is no side project but a fully fledged musical force on this, their second album together, White Magic.

Steve Kilbey – recently inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame as a member of iconic Australian band, The Church – continues to prove himself to be an eternally creative artist whilst retaining his unique individuality. Here he sings in a soft, velvety undertone, all the while tempting the listener and craftily placing you under his spell. His carefully constructed narratives create wordy potions mixing daydream imagery, the fleeting nature of time and stories of the ancients.

As for Martin Kennedy, he is no mere sorcerer's apprentice; Kennedy is in fact an ARIA nominee himself. His work with ambient instrumentalists, All India Radio, and as a songwriter has long been proven in his back catalogue. His dreamscapes are no simple sleight of hand – he is truly a conjurer creating lavishly orchestrated mini soundtracks – music that is soft, warm and enveloping, designed to entice, lure and hypnotise.

There is much more to White Magic than simple parlour room trickery. It is a collection of 11 songs, prayers, whispered spells and lyrical secrets, lightly brushed acoustic guitars and a bed of Lynchian drenched atmospherics that will beguile and seep inside the consciousness of any unsuspecting listener.