Richard H. Kirk

Curated essentials from the 80's ~ oughts of a man who now rests & works in the 4th dimension...
~God Bless You Richard Harold Kirk~

Richard H. Kirk "Black Jesus Voice" & "Virtual State"
Sweet Exorcist "Testone"
Sandoz "Digital Lifeforms", "Dark Continent" & "Afrocentris"
Electronic Eye "Closed Circuit"
Alphaphone Vol. 1 "Step Write Run"

One of those artists that no matter how much he diversified that essential Kirkness ran through everything. The recent swathe of releases might have suggested something was coming, but he leaves such a legacy of sound; we can at least be grateful for that. RIP RHK.

As someone else said, goodnight sweet exorcist. R. I. P.

Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire): “I’m shattered. my Cabs music partner, and often sparring partner, difficult to live with, but impossible not to love; stubborn, no sufferer of fools, but insightful, spontaneous, and with vision... and underneath the spiky shell, a warm heart. I’m truly devastated. RIP Kirky.”

Adi Newton (Clock DVA): : “RIP Richard H. Kirk. I knew Richard for over 40 years, a great friend and Collaborator; I first saw Him with Mallinder walking through the Hole in the Road in the centre of Sheffield in the early 70,s and remember thinking - who are these really hip guys? looking like a cross between early Kraftwerk and Roxy Music Stylists striding through Sheffield, you have to remember in those Days really Hip people where a rare sight ,A few years later I eventually met and became Friends with Richard , Mal and Chris and through the early part of 77 and the early eighties we all used to socialise and meet in The Raven and Mr Kites on Devonshire road off West St .Richard was a pioneer , an innovator , an Individual , he was reading Burroughs and Gysin long before they became hip and was a major Kraftwerk fan before most, a Huge DADA admirer like Myself and I guess Like attracts like I have so many great memories of many times spent with Richard and as a Collaborator we made a number of productions with Clockdva and TAG ,I could not post anything yesterday and did little apart from reflect and contemplate on the loss of such a unique and Individual Artist old Friend and Collaborator , I made this small Video of Gysin and Burroughs Paintings today for Richard as a dedication and Dubed it with a track Richard originally Mixed for TAG and then later after many years I remixed and produced it for the TAG CD 4 X 12 which features all the tracks Richard and Mal produced with TAG in the early 80,s this extract featured on the Electronic Sound magazine 2019 Best of the year Compilation CD.It represents something old but something new ,a recombination of the innovations of the past into the future which Richard always strove to create . Those who got to know him will know he was really a warm and humorous and generous guy , he Knew my best Buddy Jud RIP before me and introduced us , so Im eternally thankful for that and also that I knew them both and the impact they had and still do on my life.
Thanks Richard I owe you my friend , so sorry and so sad to know I won’t see you again , rest in peace you will always be in my memories.
AN.Era Vulgaris XXII.IX.MMXXI.”

Thank you for all the great music,R.I.P. Richard H Kirk.

tristesse & émotion / le mirage d'une adolescence / une histoire

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I haven't had a chance to see you since I saw you live in Shinjuku in 1981, but I've listened to a lot of your projects. I'm so glad you started up Cabs again.
Now you're gone.　RIP

NOBODY and I mean NOBODY had ever sounded like him, NOBODY still these days sounds like him, and NOBODY ever will sound like him. My most sincere gratitude to him for all the years of giddy smiles he put on my face with each and every singel one of those unique sounds.

May you Rest in Peace in your Virtual State, Richard Kirk. Electronic music lost a true pioneer...