Over (album)
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| Studio album by Peter Hammill | |||||
| Released | 1977 | ||||
| Recorded | June 27-July 4, 1976, Foel Studios, Llanffair Caerinion, Wales | ||||
| Genre | Art rock | ||||
| Label | Charisma | ||||
| Producer | Peter Hammill | ||||
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Over is an album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1977. It was issued for the first time on CD on Virgin Records in the early 1990s, and was reissued again in a remastered version in 2006 with bonus tracks.
Over is generally considered to be one of Hammill's most important solo albums, containing as it does some of his most intensely personal songs. The album details the break-up of a long-term relationship with a woman known as Alice.
The album was recorded during a period of line-up change for Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator. It features VdGG drummer Guy Evans, VdGG's new recruit Graham Smith (formerly of String Driven Thing) on violin, and the return of VdGG's bass player from 1969 to 1970, Nic Potter.
The song "Lost and Found" shares some of the same music (and lyrical references) as the VdGG song "La Rossa".
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Peter Hammill.
- "Crying Wolf"
- "Autumn"
- "Time Heals"
- "Alice (Letting Go)"
- "This Side Of The Looking Glass"
- "Betrayed"
- "(On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga"
- "Lost And Found"
The following bonus tracks were included on the 2006 CD reissue:
- "Betrayed" (BBC session)
- "Autumn" (BBC session)
- "This Side of the Looking Glass" (solo version)
[edit] Personnel
- Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Graham Smith - violin on "Autumn" & "Betrayed"
- Nic Potter - bass
- Guy Evans - drums
- Michael Brand - conductor of orchestra on "This Side Of The Looking Glass"
