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Fie! June 2009

The Mercy

Your Face On The Street Stumbled

Wrong Way Round

Ghost Of Planes

If We Must Part Like This

Undone

Dimished

The Top Of The World Club

all songs by Peter Hammill

recorded from August 2008 to March 2009 in Terra Incognita, Wilts, from

Peter Hammill

Thin Air can be considered the third installment of a trilogy that includes the experimental syntax Incoherence that was the ineffectiveness of language and Singularity reflecting on old age and death. Thin Air, "thin air" covers death, change and loss: the dissolution.

Of the three episodes that could be considered the most accessible not only for its catchiness (which abound) and for the care of registration and air coated tools that give travelers the electron side (synthesizers, keyboards filter and the guitars and vocals). In the tradition hammilliana consistency between the text and music, the sounds tend to evoke purity, lightness el'inconsistenza thin air, the air of high altitudes. It is said that the idea originated in the disk Hammill years earlier in a visit to the top of the twin towers of the World Trade Center (the top of the world club, I suppose), and then obviously evoked by the tragedy of the same. No coincidence that one of the songs that seem to draw the Sept. 11 is titled Ghost Of Planes . Not only that you sing in Thin Air, but also of others have disappeared, like that of the girl who has seen the posters or the bottle of milk Your Face On The Street , or the escape of If We Must Part Like This, the world's ol'addio The Mercy . From the musical point of view Thin Air is less than minimal: of the nine pieces, just one, Undone , could be called a song (which in fact has found its place among the tracks on the live show Hammill). The rest is vague between echoes, sounds, dissonant, voices and choirs and the filtered echo. From this point of view, the perfect song is the final The Top Of The World Club , that within nine minutes is able to evoke emotion and lyricism in a song that becomes the shared. The cold The Mercy opening can be said successful.

tracks included in the live show: Undone

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Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ½