Roaring Forties (album)

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Roaring Forties
Studio album by Peter Hammill
Released	1994
Recorded	August 1993-May 1994, Terra Incognita, Bath
Genre	Art rock
Label	Fie!
Producer	Peter Hammill
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Peter Hammill chronology
The Noise (1992) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1995)

Roaring Forties is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! label in 1994. It, and the following album, X My Heart, are Hammill's most recent albums that primarily contain an organic, full-band rock style. While there are occasional tracks on later albums in this style, Hammill's principal mode has moved since this album towards a more intimate, chamber-music style.

The album also contains "A Headlong Stretch", one of Hammill's occasional long, episodic song suites (see also "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" from Pawn Hearts and "Flight" from A Black Box).

[edit] Track listing

1. "Sharply Unclear"
2. "The Gift Of Fire"
3. "You Can't Want What You Always Get"
4. "A Headlong Stretch" (Up Ahead/Continental Drift/The Twelve/Long Light/Backwards Man/As You Were/Or So I Said)
5. "Your Tall Ship"

[edit] Personnel

• Peter Hammill: guitar, piano, vocals
• Nic Potter: bass
• Stuart Gordon: violin
• Simon Clarke: organ
• David Jackson: saxophone, flute
• Manny Elias: drums, percussion