Esoteric Recordings, March 2011
Your Time Starts Now
Mathematics
Highly Strung
Red Baron
Bunsho
Snake Oil
Splink
Embarrassing Kid Medusa
Smoke
5533
All Over The Place
songs Banton, Evans, Hammill
produced by Peter Hammill
recorded 3 to 9 April 2010 for the Propagation House Studios Devon and Terra Incognita by:
Hugh Banton: organ and bass, harpsicord, piano, glockenspiel, bass 10 strings
Guy Evans: drums, percussion, guitar on (12)
Peter Hammill: vocals, piano, guitar, bass ashbory up (7)
One of the larger drives designed, arranged, complex VdGG the time of Pawn Hearts. Evidently the desire to do it without David Jackson's saxophone is so. A Grounding In Numbers lasted about an hour, but is packed with ideas, a lyophilized grows over time. A long stream of music along thirteen episodes linked together by a logical and coherent, as if to create a unique composition. A complicated Gordian knot that unfolds slowly and laboriously listening after listening to the ears of the listener attentive and patient (and add a little 'read). Failed the other dominant personality of the band (that of Jackson, in fact), Hammill is to lead the way for what might appear, however, played a solo album of precious arrangements that the Franciscan poverty of his records are missing (recently) almost completely . Ideas, ideas, the music is a lot of s, but what evidence is missing with the liberating lyricism of Jackson, his sax with his notes could thrilling filing the sharp edges of the experimental music of the generator 's improvisation and wriggle free of the instruments on the disc seems banned. No coincidence that the unconventional geometry of Hammill's voice and arrangements based largely on keyboards sometimes bring to mind the best moments of another fine band progressive era, the Gentle Giant. The disc starts at the end and a Your Time Starts Now that has all the characteristics of the track slowly closing, and is developed echoes between progressive (Highly Strung, Mr. Sands) , now funky (Smoke, 5533) now sci-fi themes (Medusa, Splink) and exercises of the imagination (Mathematics) , connecting the listener to a disk, however wonderful for those who want to listen, an album that repays the effort is not consumed even after a thousand plays. But perhaps with regret that Jaxon would be able to add more than a touch of soul and humanity.
tracks included in the live show:
advice on buying, not for the new band. A concentration of VDGG trio formats.
Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½
