Centipede - album Septober energy 1971 (1974)

Utopian album conceived and produced by the English pianist Keith Tippet and Robert Fripp, an album that tried to create a synthesis of the different souls and musical and cultural currents that were boiling in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A sort of summa of the previous decade projected into the next. A fusion of styles, cultures and musical practices, a proliferation of musical genres, composed of countless watertight compartments. "Septober energy" contains all this musical cultural instances, where the musicans on a collective terrain through the practice of improvisation assumed a central role and transform it into the central glue of their different experiences. Double album consisting of four long movements, one for each side, composed of themes, improvisations, moments of energy, alternated to freer sistuations, in a broad extended compositional sense, that relies on all the pervious experiences crossed by the element of improvisation.

Keith Tippett - piano, music director.
Julie Tippett, Zoot Money, Maggie Nichols, Boz, Mike Patto - vocals.
Wilf Gibson - lead violin.
Brian Godding - guitar.
Wendy Treacher, Steve Rowlands, Rod Skeaping, Philip Saudek, Mica Gomberti, John Trussler, Garth Morton, Esther Burgi, Colin Kitching, Channa Salononson, Carol Slater - violin.
Ian Carr - trumpet, flugelhorn.
Peter Parkes, Mel Collins - trumpet.
Paul Rutherford, Nick Evans, Dave Perrottet, Dave Amis - trombone.
Larry Stabbins, Gary Windo, Brian Smith, Alan Skidmore - tenor saxophone.
Mongesi Feza, Maek Charig - cornet.
Tim Kramer, Suki Towd, Mike Hurwitz, Katherine Thulborn, John Rees.Jones, Catherine Finnis - cello.
John Williams - bass saxophone, soprano saxophone.
Karl Jenkins - baritone saxophone, oboe.
Dave White - baritone saxophone, clarinet.
Elton Dean - alto saxophone, saxello.
Ja Steel, Ian McDonald, Dudu Pukwana - alto saxophone.
Jeff Clyne, Jeff Lyons, Dave Markee, Brian Belshaw - bass.
Roy Babbington - bass, double bass.
Robert Wyatt, Tony Fennell - drums.
John Marshall - drums, percussion.

Septober energy 1.
Septober energy 2.
Septober energy 3.
Septober energy 4.