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Peter Hammill: Typical - Solo Performances

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Label: Fie! Records
Released: 1999
Time:
 63:26 / 70:31
Category: Progressive Rock
Producer(s): Peter Hammill
Rating:
Media type: CD-Double
Web address: www.sofasound.com
Appears with: Van der Graaf Generator, David Jackson
Purchase date: 2009.10.17
Price in €: 3,00





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Disk 1
[1] My Room (P.Hammill) - 7:30
[2] Curtains (P.Hammill) - 6:05
[3] Just Good Friends (P.Hammill) - 4:54
[4] Too Many of My Yesterdays (P.Hammill) - 4:23
[5] Vision (P.Hammill) - 4:31
[6] Time to Burn (P.Hammill) - 5:08
[7] The Comet, the Course, the Tail (P.Hammill) - 9:12
[8] I Will Find You (P.Hammill) - 3:55
[9] Ophelia (P.Hammill) - 4:13
[10] Given Time (P.Hammill) - 4:45
[11] Modern (P.Hammill) - 9:29

Disk 2
[1] Time for a Change (Robshaw/Smith) - 4:14
[2] Patient (P.Hammill) - 8:43
[3] Stranger Still (P.Hammill) - 5:51
[4] Our Oyster (P.Hammill) - 5:46
[5] Shell (P.Hammill) - 4:44
[6] A Way Out (P.Hammill) - 9:06
[7] Traintime (P.Hammill) - 6:09
[8] The Future Now (P.Hammill) - 26:32
[9] Afterwards (P.Hammill) - 6:40 *
[10] Darkness (P.Hammill) - 4:50 *
[11] Central Hotel (P.Hammill) - 6:12 *

* Hidden tracks

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Peter Hammill - Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer

Paul Ridout - Mixing, Live Mixing

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1999 CD Fie! FIE 9119

Collection of 'typical' solo performances from a North European tour in 1992.

Recorded in 1992 at:
a) Salzburg, Austria, 30th March
b) Hildsheim, Germany, 8th April
c) Hamburg, Germany, 9th April
d) Bochum, Germany, 12th April
e) Utrecht, Netherlands, 15th April
f) Nijmegen, Netherlands, 17th April
g) den Haag, Netherlands, 18th April
h) Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21st April
i) Rovereto, Italy, 11th December


Notes from Peter Hammill: "Interspersed with band/duo/trio activities I've been performing solo shows on a regular basis since 1968. Several of these have appeared (in the usual predictably scrappy form) on various bootlegs. This collection of songs is the first official version of whatever it is I do, wherever it is I go, alone on stage."

"Afterwards", "Darkness (11/11)" and "Central Hotel" are hidden tracks and aren't mentioned in the tracklisting in the CD booklet.

19 live solo performances by the former Van Der Graaf Generator guitarist on two discs. All are taken from his 1992 European tour & include 'My Room', 'Curtains' and 'The Future Now'.



Drawn from a collection of 1992 solo recordings made in venues across northern Europe, this double-CD release is an intriguing mix of the spontaneous and the meticulous -- the one on the night, the other coming with the preparation of the release eight years down the line. Peter Hammill is known for being a quirky fellow; this is yet another of those quirks. As he points out in the liner notes (another surprise, as Hammill is not precisely known for carrying on at length in booklets), the title of the release is a misnomer -- there is no such thing as a typical show for Hammill, who likes to choose his weapons, so to speak, at the last minute. Even then, in the course of a concert, the songs will be twisted and turned, often approached in different ways, expanded, contracted, approached softly instead of full-tilt, or approached full-tilt where cautions and softness used to be the watchwords. The idea is to keep bringing something new to the table each time, something other than a rote version of the familiar. This can have its problems, of course, and Hammill is upfront about the stumbles and outright collapses that occur; a few are heard loud and clear at various places during this recording -- a line dropped or a keyboard passage screwed up because Hammill was well away with the passion of the moment as far as the vocals go. The mistakes are far outweighed by the opportunity to hear different and fascinating things occurring with many of the songs; Hammill's use of electric guitar in these concerts (as opposed to his usual acoustic) allowed him to explore a song such as "Modern" in this context, and expand upon the original in interesting ways (in this instance, by using guitar to control keyboards during the bridge section, among other touches). Typical brings in very deliberate elements of the actor's stage throughout, and is extremely effective as a result; sequenced as it is, the flow of the album is incredibly magnetic. One last intriguing note is the "secret encore" element that Hammill has included here -- following "The Future Now" there is quite a bit more, including songs from the first two Van Der Graaf Generator albums. A nice touch (the encore track runs over 26 minutes), although a quirky one. As noted before, though, that's Peter Hammill.

Steven McDonald - All Music Guide



A new live double CD from Peter Hammill slated for release around mid-April. Performances are all from '92, around Europe.  Interspersed with his band/trio/duo activities, Peter has been performing purely solo shows on a regular basis since 1968.  Several of these have appeared (in the usual predictably scrappy form) on various bootlegs.  This collection of songs is the first official version of, "...whatever it is I do, wherever it is I go, alone on stage."  This wonderful collection features over two hours of music and a 12 page booklet full of commentary from PH.

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