Fie!, March 1993
A Kick to Kill the Kiss (4:12)
Like a Shot, the Entertainer (5:13)
The Noise (6:12)
Celebrity Kissing (4:34)
Where the Mouth Is (5:33)
The Great European Department Store (4:58)
Coventry Planet (4:02)
First on the Parapet (8:36)
tracks by Peter Hammill
registered:
Peter Hammill - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Manny Elias - drums
Nic Potter - bass
John Ellis - guitar
David Jackson - saxophone, flute
The album cover shows the famous "number one in a series Loud" , a counterpart to note "number one in BeCalm series" Fireships the previous album. Obviously The Noise (significantly, the noise) is not the first album noisy (fast, new wave) of PH, as Fireships was not the first album was slow.
But evidently the project in those years would be to separate the two souls of the work of Hammill.
The Noise work relies on taste (and sound) as a new wave discs K Group or Sitting Targets , but far more radical of these, perhaps due to the fact that he has paid the debt to the quiet songs with the previous Fireships .
The band consists of PH, from John Ellis on guitar, the rhythm section of Potter and Manny Elias and finally touch David Jackson the wind - so we are very close to the territories of the K Group but with a drummer more hitter.
The opening is pure rock & roll, with A Kick To Kill The Kiss, which introduces the themes of social satire of the album's lyrics.
Like A Shot The Entertainer is a nice catchy song that could easily be broadcast in radio or enter the charts, perhaps as a cover of an artist less radical Hammill. But
The Noise is not a hard disk or a catchy easy, and it is made clear by the title track, a six-minute rhythmic wall of sound.
"I loved the noise
breath
electrical noise has filled the void
roared into space
I loved the noise
I loved the heat
pum-pulsing beat that primary "
Celebrity Kissing is rock & roll, Where The Mouth Is is hard rock and The Great European Department Store is art rock.
Coventry Planet is a cold blade and sharp.
"out, out of reach,
you can not measure any reaction
only silence from the front row
silence and you you're naked on stage ...
wake up!
You wake up and you're naked on stage "
Primo On The Parapet closes the album with one of those masterpieces, of those gems of music and poetry to which PH has accustomed us. A long hypnotic song played on a jarring English guitar that pays homage to the writer Primo Levi jew and his work of historical memory of If this is a man . The title alludes to the suicide of Levi, who flew over the rail of the stairwell of his house.
"Four Horsemen of the carriage drive home the Holocaust
sense of history and how we see our new world?
learn to forget?
A toast to Primo
forgive but not forget.
final word of caution
from the edge of the parapet
last word to remember
that we must learn not to forget "
A piece that will be applicant Hammill in Concert.
tracks included in the live show: On The Parapet First, Planet Coventry, A Kick To Kill The Kiss, Like A Shot The Entertainer
Board for the purchase: a successful album, with songs in the concerts and especially applicants with Primo On The Parapet, but not an easy job . A recommended purchase for those who know and appreciate Hammill.
Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
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