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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)

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PH > Fireships

Golden Hind, Rough Trade 1992 / Fie!

I Will Find You

Curtains

His Best Girl

Oasis

Incomplete Surrender

Fireships

Given Time

Reprise (Hammill eDavid Lord)

Gaia

tracks by Peter Hammill

Produced by David Lord and PH

Registered between November 1990 and August 1991 by:

Peter Hammill: vocals, guitar, keyboards

David Lord: keyboards

David Jackson saxophone, flute

Nic Potter: bass Stuart

Gordon: violin

John Ellis: guitar

There is no definitive album of Peter Hammill or a disk that can be defined as complete or exhaustive. There's a shortcut: PH is an investigator and his jewels are scattered among all jobs. However, there are more refined and better produced album, and Fireships is definitely one of those.

Fireships has one producer (David Lord), is unusual for a musician as artisan Hammill, who is accustomed to working in the home studio (the Sofa Sound) and then finish the job with employees trusted long time. In many ways

Fireships wants to be a recapitulation important in the career of Hammill. It is the first album to come out to his record label, the newly Fie! (from the letter of the greek ph), boasts an orchestral arrangement and very accurate. He has curated a cover instead of the usual black and white photography. From the liner notes is also the first record of a newly formed series BeCalm , while the next job will be the first of the series A Loud . In fact Peter has always been from the trilogy progressive alternating slow ballads for piano or acoustic guitar to rock songs inspired by new wave, sometimes with the same hard, sometimes slower disks ( The Love Songs, And Close As This ) or more lively ( Enter K, Sitting Targets, Skin ). The purpose of officially separating the two cores will not last long: apart from a couple of anthologies of the Virgin, you will not hear more about Calm and Loud , even though the record industry in the years to come will be generally more calm that loud.

Perhaps precisely because of the richness of the arrangements Fireships is an enjoyable disc, although it can be called anything but commercial. It is really amazing that a disk so slow as to be sometimes almost motionless or stunned (His Best Girl or Given Time ) manages to be catchy.

I Will Find You is actually a slow catchy art rock vaguely Roxy Music, which could go on radio and in the live show will be applicant:

"We are writing in a sky crossed by the stars

music of soul remembers you ...

can run or hide, but surely

you try, I'll chase you, you'll find "

A applicant is another song in concert Curtains , the curtain closes on a love story that ends, a song slow and deep like a heavy curtain:

"Tommy got up that morning with rocks in the head

and Silvia was shocked

the story that had fake

was frozen on their lips ... ...

for Silvia and Tommy there was nothing left to prove

have raced for years

to find a way of life that offered

excitation "

His Best Girl is a piece of property even five minutes in his gait freezing electronic, while singing the words of a beautiful girl and icy image:

" In GTi Cabriolet to the villa in southern France Vacation

keep your head down baby, keep your golden curls

you'll always be his favorite girl "

Oasis proceeds winding up with an electronic rhythm that evoke echoes of Eastern odalisques veiled:

"Next to the swimming pool of clear water

powered by a secret spring

your lips are sealed but in the language of your body

angels sing ...

... tell me your secret name

oasis in a desert world "

Fireships is a symphonic piece, evoking the war fleets of ships, blazing, of the Armada anime, the Armada of the light.

"There is a curtain smoke on the horizon

ships that sail fire tonight

is the army of souls, the flotilla from God knows where ...

... we believe to be fireproof

never think it can be burned "

Given Time, the time allotted, it's a slow introspective song about death and the realization that Peter loves to sing quite often in his concerts:

"We make the lives we lead"

seems an extraordinary album, but the song that closes it is a beauty to put in the shade almost all the music that preceded it, an orchestral piece at the zenith while the splendid production of Hammill.

is Gaia, a symphonic piece on the world lives, and the connection of all events, the flutter of a butterfly in a hurricane

"Cry those tears and Then dry your eyes tired

every breath you take keeps you alive

butterflies are

properties in flight on a starry

but the ghosts flying on and on

in the sense that we all belong

Oh, Gaia

and the sum of all parts

is the heart that forgives everything

Gaia "

A song that I can not listen without feeling the chills every time.

tracks included in the live show: I Will Find You, Curtains, Given Time

Board for the purchase: one of the most beautiful album and finished PH. Even a good entry point to his music.

Reviewer's rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ½