PH > Typical recorded live in 1992, published Fie! 1999
My Room (7:30)
Curtains (6:06)
Just Good Friends (4:55)
Too Many Of My Yesterdays (4:23 )
Vision (4:32)
Time To Burn (5:08)
The Comet, The Course, The Tail (9:12)
I Will Find You (3 : 55)
Ophelia (4:14)
Given Time (4:46)
Modern (9:30)
Time For A Change (4:14)
Patient (8:43)
Stranger Still (5:51)
Our Oyster (5:46)
Shell (4:44)
A Way Out (9:06)
Traintime (6:10)
encore:
The Future Now (4:03)
ghost tracks
Afterwards (6:00)
Darkness (11/11) (5:13)
Central Hotel (6:12)
Peter Hammill: vocals, pianorte, guitar
Peter Hammill said he had only played live on stage since the beginning of his career. He has shared the stage with VDGG, with the K Group, the duo, a trio, quartet, but the show more typical applicant was probably the one that sees only entertained the audience armed only with a microphone, a guitar and a pianorte.
Typical Performances Only contains a typical show only nineteen (or more?) Pieces selected from those of the European tour Fireships in 1992: Austria, Germany, Holland and Italy.
In the booklet accompanying the double CD tells the criteria for choosing the lineup of songs, not an hour before the start of the show, one with which to break the ice and enter the atmosphere up to the choice of a final .
Typical is not just a typical solo show but is also an extraordinary show that travels at a level of perfection. Very well recorded, with a warm and engaging voice and a very present.
"Clearly we're not seeing a rock concert. The piano keys are hammered as a concert of classical music and the voice is modulated, rises and falls, experiments bold colors, filled with magnificent instrument of its power all the space of the theater and the audience breathes plan. Experience with Peter Hammill singing, but it is not experimental music's sake as the search for expressing emotions and feelings of his texts were almost come to life and perform for themselves. Despite the objective complexity of the songs and sang, there is no shade of coolness in the music of Hammill, indeed, now we are attacked by the tide of emotions, the strength of the songs and their themes, love the life the pain death ... "
The show opens with My Room, a magnificent remnant of Van Der Graaf Generator of Still Life, a song that opened the show so often hear more from the solo repertoire of the band.
"my lungs burst into a cry
how could you leave me here to die
I froze in the ice of this place
how could you let this happen?
dreams, hopes and promises, fragments out of time
all these things have been said
yet you still do not understand how I feel
waiting to be broken "
Curtains comes from recent (at the time of registration) Fireships , which seems to gain from treatment for solo piano.
Just Good Friends is a very classic Patience:
"whenever we are so close
I do it for granted that the last time
as we can still pretend
to be just good friends?
I've devoted my devotion
I did not trump
if it came from your silent life
you see it? "
Too Many Of My Yesterdays is a beautiful song from And Close As This , a studio album that already proposed a PH solo.
"Many years ago I thought you were the only
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 is changed
not try to tell me that nothing is new
too many of my yesterday belong to you "
Vision is an evergreen from the past, the 1971, the era of first band and Fool's Mate, to show that they are likely to change mode and arrangements at the heart of the poetic compositions of Hammill is still very real.
"I have a vision of you locked in my head
creeps into my mind and warms me in bed
the vision of a vision
that protects me fears of night
and as the season goes on my love remains strong
do not know where you end and where do I start I
I just open my mind and memories you pour
be my daughter, be my lover
swallow your glow
take my tongue take my torment
take my hand and do not let me go "
Time to Burn is a beautiful song In A Foreign Town bare of any frills arrangement.
For The Comet, The Course, The Tail Hammill moves to electric guitar, to resume the subject of an epic masterpiece in progressive VDGG finished In Room .
I Will Find You is again a catchy new song by Fireships , beautiful even in the stripped version for guitar.
"We have written in the stars across the sky
music of soul remembers you ...
you can run or hide, but surely
you try, I'll chase you, you'll find"
Ophelia is a classic love song from Sitting Targets (and Love Songs).
Given Time (Fireships) bears some dissonance between the six strings.
Modern is a wonderful hypnotic melody from The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage , which way to present your Hammill theatricality of his voice.
Time For A Change is a piece of Judge Smith, who starred in Hammill pH7. A romantic melody that I can never hear without having to shiver.
"Time to change
I felt bad, strange things were done
house, the house is near
yes, it's time for a change ... "
Patient (from Patience ) is one of the most significant songs of Hammill, exciting and even when he sings the chorus:
"Waiting For The Doctor To Come!"
emphasizing the harshness of the agreements on the guitar.
A moment of pathos so intense it needs to be broken by a return to the piano to a romantic song as yet Stranger Still Sitting Targets by :
"Even stranger in another city
as normal sit out the dance
eating good food alone
toasting the empty glass
and are already planning the next stage
already forgetting the last
No, nothing could be less strange in entropy so
there is no change "
Our Oyster is Out Of Water :
"This is an authentic son of a gun
a soundtrack from China in the universal language
in the universal language of some things should not be translated
There is only one language
that the whole world including
there is one message
when darkness falls
are playing world music
in Tiananmen square
the whistle of bullets "
Going towards the end with the elegance of the understated Shell Skin:
"Turn a card, once a page
the start of some action
reaction illogical thoughts on the appropriate lines
Borges in a dream we move toward the writing of lives "
A Way Out again by the recent Out Of Water, a love song by dramatic:
"dislocated, out of the truth
out of love, out of sadness
off duty, out of orbit, out of control
out of touch, out of line
out of sync and out of time
finished gasoline and tires
astray. ..
... I wish I'd said "I love you"
The last song of the show is Traintime (from Patience )
"lineside cables hum
in outbreaks code as far drums
carrying the message
more along the line someone is yelling
as time passes "
This is a The Future Now, again for piano. Tell that PH does not consider as part of a lineup that can be anything: a rare piece, a quiet song, an explosive piece. Tonight is explosive.
"I want the future now
want to hold in my hands
all men equal and free
want the promised land"
If you remove the disc and you wait long enough you are rewarded with even three hidden track, a second, third and fourth paragraph: Rare versions of Afterwards and Darkness 11/11 (from the repertoire of VDGG: The Least We Can Do ... and even The Aerosol Grey Machine ) and Central Hotel (Sitting Targets) .
If there is a secret art of Peter Hammill is revealed in this Typical .
If I have one disc that would Typical PH.
But I think that it's still nice to hear these beautiful songs in their naked soul when there are already covered by their dress studio album.
Board for purchase: a perfect album that focuses on the essence of Hammill.
Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (masterpiece)