NEW post: Peter Hammill - "There’s so much in his catalogue but these selections represent that period when I was most intensely interested in his work."
10 top tracks from the ‘solo’ albums of #PeterHammill
Next up on my (music) reading pile: ‘Rock and Role: The Visionary Songs of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator’ by Joe Banks.
I enjoyed Banks’s book about Hawkwind, so I’m looking forward to digging into this one. I was interested to read in one of PH’s recent newsletters that he’d not been interviewed for the book - it’s unclear whether that was Hammill’s decision or the author’s…
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Bue, va otro temazo de Hammill en vivo, "Refugees".
Pasaron las 00 h GMT, en Londres ya es 5 de noviembre, por lo tanto Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill está cumpliendo 77 años. Albricias.
Hace un mes y pocos días estuvo por Edimburgo, Manchester y Londres, dando algunos de esos recitales en los que canta solo, con piano y con guitarra. Hay varios videos dando vuelta. Busquen, no los va a defraudar.
Dejo nomás una canción de muestra, "Stranger still", en vivo en Edimburgo.
Peter Hammill, en plenitud.
"From The Trees" (2017) by #PeterHammill.
That raw B&W sleeve with punk style graffiti suggests towards his raw early 1980s band style, even 1970s "Nadir". But the colorful back cover and the inner sleeve makes clear this "a calm" chill out album.
Indeed musically I would place this next to "Fireships" (one of my fave "calm" albums of his). Maybe you can also hear some "Fool's Mate" stuff here, but aged like a wine.
Back from seeing Peter Hammill in concert. I first saw him play with VdGG over fifty years ago; I saw him solo over thirty years ago, too.
It was very good tonight, though his songs can be a bit bleak - and he played my favourite of his songs first, so it was downhill from there!
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