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FIE Records

Peter Hammill 'What Now?' CD

£11.99

FIE Records

Peter Hammill 'What Now?' CD

£11.99

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Peter Hammill had spent a considerable amount of time, energy and emotion revisiting and remastering a good portion of the Van der Graaf Generator catalog for The Box (a four disc VdGG retrospective you'll find below), and it had a definite impact on his latest release, "What, Now?" 

"Exhilarating though this was it carried with it an element of emotional debt and a demand for self-examination. I determined that my own next release should be conventional (as in songs) rather than experimental and I therefore put to one side a collection of material I had been previously been working on and began assembling the "What?" of "Now."  There are eight songs of varying length and style.

On three or four of them one finds, in various combinations, the members of the (erstwhile and maybe some day to be again) pHQ: Manny Elias, Stuart Gordon and David Jackson. This line-up remains one of which I'm very fond and which I believe has an extremely wide sonic palette. This is not, though, a revisitation of "X my heart," for the remainder of the tracks are fundamentally me playing alone.

This time my stabs at instruments are divided fairly evenly between guitars electric and acoustic, pianos/keyboards and bass. Of course, there's a lot of singing, both lead and backing vox/choral. Naturally, although there are elements of familiarity, it is not the same as what has gone before." - PH

Tracklisting:
1. Here Come The Talkies
2. Far-Flung (Across The Sky)
3. The American Girl
4. Wendy & The Lost Boy
5. Lunatic In Knots
6. Edge Of The Road
7. Fed To The Wolves
8. Enough