This (Peter Hammill album)

This is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his Fie! label in 1998. There is a large variety in the compositions, ranging from the minimalism of the final song, "The Light Continent", to the rough, almost Nadir-like sound of "Always is Next", the complex "Unrehearsed" and the ballad "Since the Kids". Peter Hammill performed the song "Unrehearsed" live many times. "Nightman" can be heard on the live-album Veracious (2006).

Production and instrumentation

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Peter Hammill's own studio, Terra Incognita in Bath, between January and July 1998. All instruments were played and all voices sung by Hammill, except for violin and viola by Stuart Gordon, saxophones and flute by David Jackson, and drums and persussion by Manny Elias. Hammill himself regards the album as "not in any sense a 'band' disc", and considers "the unifying factors [to be] song and voice rather than instrumentation".^[1] The songs are interspersed with small instrumental fragments (according to Hammill, "their presence is essential in order to glue the whole thing together"^[1]).

Cover

The cover shows a tree stump and a collection of objects, signifying the passing of time. There is a tachograph disc, ripped out of the machine at high speed on one of the tours, and a picture of a wrist watch that used to belong to Hammill's father.^[1] The design was done by RidArt (Paul Ridout).

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill.

"Frozen in Place (fragment)" – 0:46
"Unrehearsed" – 7:05
"Stupid" – 4:26
"Since the Kids" – 5:56
"Nightman" – 6:17
"Fallen (the City of Night)" – 5:37
"Unready (fragment)" – 0:42
"Always is Next" – 3:58
"Unsteady (fragment)" – 0:58
"The Light Continent" – 14:02

Personnel

All instruments and voices by Peter Hammill except:

Manny Elias – drums & percussion (2, 3, 6, 8)
Stuart Gordon – violin & viola (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
David Jackson – saxophones & flute (2, 3, 5, 8, 10)

Notes

1 2 3 Peter Hammill about This

External links

SofaSound newsletter by Peter Hammill announcing and describing the album

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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