Foundry 1986 / Virgin / Charisma
Skin
After the Show
Painting by Numbers
Shell
All Said and Done
A Perfect Date
Four Pails "(Chris Judge Smith and Max Hutchinson)
Lover Now
tracks by Peter Hammill
recorded at Sound and The Sofa Wood Hall by:
Peter Hammill
with Guy Evans - drums and percussion
David Jackson - saxophones
David Coulter - didjeridu
Stuart Gordon - violin
Hugh Banton - cello
David Luckhurst - vox alternative
Paul Ridout - midi
Peter Hammill has recorded only perfect records, and this is in some ways a relief to his humanity and his ability to experiment and making mistakes.
the least enjoyable of Skin is not on the songs (in any case less inspired than usual) but from the sound typically eighties due to the presence of electronic rhythms and a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer brand new. Of the eight pieces
one stands out and is a fish out of water in the arrangement General After The Show, "a ballad backed by a body fluid and the sax of David Jackson, Hammill where questions about what makes the 'actor after the play:
"He put together some money
this may please you to know ...
drink something at the corner coffee
after the show
It was so many people
wears clothes like poisoned
is still reciting the soliloquy of Hamlet
close to his chest.
Where are the actors after the show? "
That there is something autobiographical in these verses?
Painting By Numbers is printed as singles, the last of Peter, and just happened to like those that preceded it.
All Said and Done is an interesting piece, and it would be more than an arrangement failed.
Four Pails is a piece of Chris Judge Smith (Member of the very first VDGG):
"Four buckets of water and a pinch of salt
this is all we are
everything is made man
chemistry without spirit, soul, ghosts.
No faith can hide the truth of which we fear most "
The album closes with Lover Now, a nice present in the place - maybe - mistake: a long, ambitious piece of ten minutes Van Der Graaf Generator in style, with lots of sax of David Jackson, whose appeal appears tight after several plays.
There's actually a hidden track, You Hit Me Where I Live , a lively piece in the back of the 45 origin of Painting By Numbers.
tracks included in the live show: Four Pails - Skin - After The Show - Shell
Board for the purchase: a disc from the sound a bit 'dated but with many moments significant.
Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ½
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