1986 Virgin / Charisma
Too Many Of My Yesterdays
Faith
Empire Of Delight (music by Keith Emerson, PH texts)
Silver
Beside The One You Love
Old Movies Clichés
Confidence
Sleep Now
tracks by Peter Hammill
recorded at Sofa Sound from August 7 to September 15, 1986, from:
Peter Hammill - keyboards
Paul Ridout - midi and Macintosh
The disco was born a few months after the previous Skin, from the consideration that while often PH found himself playing his own songs in concert, aided only by a piano or an acoustic guitar This side of his art had not yet been reflected on records.
Hence the decision to record eight songs only with its naked voice accompanied by a keyboard, represented by a piano or a MIDI keyboard. The result is one of the best albums of his career, a hard romance and melancholy on the theme of the loves of the past. Except the song that closes, a lullaby dedicated to her daughter, who turns to his future.
Some songs, the most beautiful, they are also easily accessible, as Too Many Of My Yesterdays :
"Many years ago I thought you were the only one who knows
when people change, give up to become foreign
they go adrift on their lives, surrounded by the past
who knows what is the last goodbye
not try to tell me that nothing dies
not try to tell me that nothing has changed
not try to tell me that nothing is new
too many of my yesterday belong to you "
is equally catchy melody Faith:
" Every moment is precious
those that I spend with you I'm a premium
consider myself lucky to be alive
while you are in my eyes
not let me go
now that I am completely lost in you "
Empire Of Delight is a beautiful love ballad, written around unusually a classical piece for piano signed by Keith Emerson.
"The memory extends his empire
keeps the frame but blurs the lines
sometimes invades the senses
a moment captured and lost a second look
suddenly you feel close
worlds away yet so close
a stolen kiss from my lips
and the time slips in flight ... "
The best part is probably Other Old Cliches, cliches about a love that ends, while Silver, Beside The One You Love and Confidence are more obscure and hard.
Sleep Now is a lullaby dedicated to her daughter
"Now sleep
another day in your young life is gone
go to sleep now
new worlds will arrive tomorrow with their troubles
you're such a wonder and a mystery to me that
Somewhere your future friends sleep
like you and your lover now they are just crying babies in their arms
oh, the world turns under our feet
and spend our lives while we sleep "
tracks included in the live show: Silver - Too Many Of My Yesterdays
Board for purchase: a PH intimate with some of his best .
Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½
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