Peter Hammill - The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971-1986 Peter Hammill
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Peter Hammill first came to prominence as the founder member and voice of the legendary progressive rock group Van der Graaf Generator. Alongside his work with Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill has enjoyed a long career as an innovative and ground-breaking solo artist. Beginning with his first solo album “Fool’s Mate” in 1971, Peter recorded a series of acclaimed albums for both Charisma Records and Virgin Records covering a wide range of moods, but all undeniably and uniquely original and ground-breaking.Peter Hammill’s work has been hailed by musicians such as John Lydon and David Bowie who expressed their admiration for his albums and his song writing.This super deluxe box set comprises all 13 albums released by Charisma and Virgin, all newly remastered from the original master tapes, along with new 5.1 and stereo mixes of “The Future Now” and “pH7” by Stephen W Tayler, rare BBC sessions and live recordings and a Blu-ray video disc of rare previously unreleased European television performances.
Track List
CD One:
“Fool’s Mate”
1.Imperial Zeppelin
2.Candle
3.Happy
4.Solitude
5.Vision
6.Re-Awakening
7.Sunshine
8.Child
9.Summer Song in the Autumn
10.Viking
11.The Birds
12.I Once Wrote Some Poems
Bonus tracks:
Demo session
Recorded in January 1971
13.Re-Awakening (demo)
14.Summer Song in the Autumn(demo)
15.The Birds(demo)
16.Sunshine(demo)
17.Happy(demo)
CD Two:
“Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night”
1.German Overalls
2.Slender Threads
3.Rock and Role
4.In the End
5.What it’s Worth
6.Easy to Slip Away
7.Dropping the Torch
8.(In the) Black Room / The Tower
Bonus tracks:
9.Rain 3am
Recorded in 1973
10.Time for a Change
11.German Overalls
12.Easy to Slip Away
13.In the End
BBC Radio John Peel session – 9th July 1973
CD Three:
“The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage”
1.Modern
2.The Lie (Bernini’s Saint Theresa)
3.Wilhemina
4.Forsaken Gardens
5.Red Shift
6.Rubicon
7.A Louse is Not a Home
CD Four:
Live Recordings 1974
1.Rubicon
2.Red Shift
BBC Radio John Peel session – 18th February 1974
3.Solitude
4.Time for a Change
5.The Birds
6.Out of My Book
7.Slender Threads
8.German OverallsLive at Montreal University Sports Centre – 21st April 1974
CD Five:
“In Camera”
1.Ferret and Featherbird
2.(No More) The Sub Mariner
3.Tapeworm
4.Again
5.Faint Heart and the Sermon
6.The Comet The Course The Tail
7.Gog
8.Magog(In Bromine Chambers)
Bonus tracks:
9.The Emperor in His War Room
10.Faint Heart and the Sermon
11.(No More)The Sub Mariner
BBC Radio John Peel session – 3rd September 1974
CD Six:
“Nadir’s Big Chance”
1.Nadir’s Big Chance
2.The Institute of Mental Health Burning
3.Open Your Eyes
4.Nobody’s Business
5.Been Alone So Long
6.Pompeii
7.Shingle Song
8.Airport
9.People You Were Going To
10.Birthday Special
11.Two or Three Spectres
CD Seven:
“Over”
1.Crying Wolf
2.Autumn
3.Time Heals
4.Alice(Letting Go)
5.This Side of the Looking Glass
6.Betrayed
7.(On Tuesday’s She Used to Do)Yoga
8.Lost and Found
Bonus tracks:
9. Afterwards
10.Autumn
11.Betrayed
BBC Radio One John Peel session – 21st April 1977
CD Eight:
“The Future Now”
1.Pushing Thirty
2.The Second Hand
3.Trappings
4.The Mousetrap
5.Energy Vampires
6.If I Could
7.The Future Now
8.Still in the Dark
9.Mediaeval
10.A Motor-Bike in Africa
11.The Cut
12.Palinurus (Castaway)
CD Nine:
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
1.House With No Door
2.Time Heals
3.This Side of the Looking Glass
4.My Room(Waiting for Wonderland)
5.Easy to Slip Away
6.Still Life
7.Lizard Play
8.Time for a Change
9.Been Alone So Long
10.Modern
11.If I Could
12.Last Frame
CD Ten:
The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA
16th February 1978
1.The Comet The Course The Tail
2.The Lie(Bernini’s Saint Theresa)
3.The Mousetrap(Caught In)
4.In the End
5.Medley:A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/The Sleepwalkers
6.Man-Erg
CD Eleven:
“pH7”
1.My Favourite
2.Careering
3.Porton Down
4.Mirror Images
5.Handicap and Equality
6.Not for Keith
7.The Old School Tie
8.Time for a Change
9.Imperial Walls
10.Mr X (Gets Tense)
11.Faculty X
Bonus tracks:
12.Mediaeval/Time for a Change
13.Mr X(Gets Tense)
14.Faculty X
BBC Radio John Peel session – 24th September 1979
15.The Polaroid
A-side of single Released as Charisma CB 399 in August 1979
Credited to Rikki Nadir
CD Twelve:
“A Black Box”
1.Golden Promises
2.Losing Faith in Words
3.Jargon King
4.Fogwalking
5.The Spirit
6.In Slow Time
7.The Wipe
8.Flight
Flying Bird
The White Cave Fandango
Control
Cockpit
Silk Worm Wings
Nothing is Nothing
A Black Box
CD Thirteen:
“Sitting Targets”
1.Breakthrough
2.My Experience
3.Ophelia
4.Empress’s Clothes
5.Glue
6.Hesitation
7.Sitting Targets
8.Stranger Still
9.Sign
10.What I Did
11.Central Hotel
CD Fourteen:
“The Love Songs”
1.Just Good Friends
2.My favourite
3.Been Alone So Long
4.Ophelia
5.Again
6.If I Could
7.Vision
8.Don’t Tell Me
9.The Birds
10.(This Side of) The Looking Glass
Bonus track:
11.Just Good Friends (instrumental)
B-side of single Released as Charisma CB 414 in May 1985
CD Fifteen:
“Skin”
1.Skin
2.After the Show
3.Painting By Numbers
4.Shell
5.All Said and Done
6.A Perfect Date
7.Four Pails
8.Now Lover
Bonus track:
9.You Hit Me Where I Live
CD Sixteen:
“And Close as This”
1.Too Many of My Yesterdays
2.Faith
3.Empire of Delight
4.Silver
5.Beside the One You Love
6.Other Old Cliches
7.Confidence
8.Sleep Now
CD Seventeen:
“The Future Now”
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
1.Pushing Thirty
2.The Second Hand
3.Trappings
4.The Mousetrap(Caught In)
5.Energy Vampires
6.If I Could
7.The Future Now
8.Still in the Dark
9.Mediaeval
10.A Motor-Bike in Africa
11.The Cut
12.Palinurus (Castaway)
CD Eighteen:
“pH7”
Stephen W Tayler stereo remix
1.My Favourite
2.Careering
3.Porton Down
4.Mirror Images
5.Handicap and Equality
6.Not for Keith
7.The Old School Tie
8.Time for a Change
9.Imperial Walls
10.Mr X (Gets Tense)
11.Faculty X
Disc Nineteen – Blu ray
“The Future Now”
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
1.Pushing Thirty
2.The Second Hand
3.Trappings
4.The Mousetrap
5.Energy Vampires
6.If I Could
7.The Future Now
8.Still in the Dark
9.Mediaeval
10.A Motor-Bike in Afrika
11.The Cut
12.Palinurus (Castaway)
“pH7”
Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix
1.My Favourite
2.Careering
3.Porton Down
4.Mirror Images
5.Handicap and Equality
6.Not for Keith
7.The Old School Tie
8.Time for a Change
9.Imperial Walls
10.Mr X (Gets Tense)
11.Faculty X
Disc Twenty - Blu-ray
The video vaults
1.In the End
2.German Overalls
French TV – Rock en Stock 1973
3.The Lie
4.Forsaken Gardens
5.A Louse is Not a Home
Swiss Television 1974
6.Energy Vampires
7.My Room
French TV – Chorus 1979
8.Tintagel By the Sea
BBC TV – “Playaway” 15th December 1979
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