In Camera (Peter Hammill album)

In Camera

Studio album by Peter Hammill

Released

July 1974

Recorded

December 1973 - April 1974

Genre

Progressive rock

Length

47:34

Label

Charisma Records

Producer

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
(1974)

In Camera
(1974)

Nadir's Big Chance
(1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

In Camera is the fourth solo album from the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released in July 1974. Much of the material was recorded in Hammill's home studio on simple four-track equipment. He then took the tapes to Trident Studios, where additional elements such as drumming from Van der Graaf Generator colleague Guy Evans, and layers of ARP 2600 analogue synthesizer were added. The album has a predominantly dark, gothic, claustrophobic feel, with the lyrics laced with apocalyptic, religious and existential imagery. "Gog" is a particularly intense and demonic song, featuring (even by Hammill's standards) strident and aggressive vocals, grandiose harmonium chords, and powerful drumming. This segués into "Magog", which is virtually a musique concrète piece of sinister drones, percussive noises, and including a ring modulated spoken vocal. Songs such as "Ferret and Featherbird" and "Again" are gentler offerings, and Hammill refers to the first as "something approaching a 'sweet' song".^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Hammill

"Ferret and Featherbird" – 3:43
"(No More) the Sub-mariner" – 5:47
"Tapeworm" – 4:20
"Again" – 3:44
"Faint-Heart and the Sermon" – 6:42
"The Comet, the Course, the Tail" – 6:00
"Gog"
"Magog (in Bromine Chambers)"
- 7 and 8 are typically combined into one track with a total time of – 17:21

Personnel

Peter Hammill – Guitar, bass guitar, piano, harmonium, ARP 2600 synthesizer, mellotron, vocals
Guy Evans – drums on 3 and 7
Chris Judge Smith – percussion, backing vocals on 8
Paul Whitehead – percussion on 8

References

External links

Album information on the unofficial VdGG site

Peter Hammill

Studio albums	Fool's Mate Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage In Camera Nadir's Big Chance Over The Future Now pH7 A Black Box Sitting Targets Enter K Loops and Reels Patience Skin And Close As This Spur of the Moment In a Foreign Town Out of Water The Fall of the House of Usher Fireships The Noise Roaring Forties X My Heart Sonix Everyone You Hold This The Appointed Hour None of the Above What, Now? Unsung Clutch Incoherence Singularity Thin Air Consequences Other World All That Might Have Been

Live albums	The Margin Room Temperature There Goes The Daylight The Peel Sessions The Union Chapel Concert Typical The Margin + Veracious Pno Gtr Vox Pno Gtr Vox Box

Singles	Red Shift Birthday Special Crying Wolf If I Could The Polaroid My Experience Paradox Drive Film Noir Just Good Friends Painting By Numbers

Live Video	In The Passionskirche

Compilation albums	Vision The Love Songs The Essential Collection A Fix On The Mix The Storm (Before The Calm) The Calm (After The Storm) Offensichtlich Goldfisch After The Show Past Go (Collected) The Thin Man Sings Ballads

Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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