Number Seven is the seventh studio album by American musician Phideaux Xavier. It is a concept album based on its main character; a dormouse. Inside, it features 20 pages of artwork featuring the dormouse and other characters.
The album's first and last song are "Dormouse – A Theme" and "Dormouse – An End" (reminiscent of King Crimson's In the Wake of Poseidon). It is divided into three acts.
Musical styles The album is played by the live band, with no outside musicians or orchestra. Its musical style is closer to the albums Chupacabras and Doomsday Afternoon. It is a blend of progressive rock and psychedelic rock with chamber jazz and classical music.
Remastered edition A remastered version of the album was released in April 2010. Phideaux later said about the original release of Number Seven: "[...], we made a mistake with the first issue of Number Seven by breaking up the songs into smaller sub-bits for people to have easy access to. People couldn't really find the 'songs' of Number Seven." The remastered version of the album fused many of the original version's short tracks into longer tracks.
Track listing
Remastered edition Source:
Personnel Phideaux Xavier – Acoustic guitar, electric twelve-string guitar, piano & vocals Ariel Farber – Violin & vocals Rich Hutchins – Drums & chant Mathew Kennedy – Electric bass guitar & chant Gabriel Moffat – Electric guitar & lap steel guitar Molly Ruttan – Vocals & percussion Linda Ruttan-Moldawsky – Vocals Mark Sherkus – Keyboards & electric guitar Jonny Unicorn – Keyboards, saxophone, vocals & chant Mixed by Gabriel Moffat Artwork by Linda Ruttan-Moldawsky Graphic Production by Molly Ruttan
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