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In Camera (Peter Hammill album)

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Released
  
July 1974

Artist
  
Peter Hammill

Producer
  
Peter Hammill

Length
  
47:34

Release date
  
July 1974

Label
  
Charisma Records

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Recorded
  
December 1973 - April 1974

In Camera(1974)
  
Nadir's Big Chance(1975)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Rock music, Art rock, Pop rock

Similar
  
Peter Hammill albums, Progressive rock albums

Peter hammill 1974 in camera full album


In Camera is the fourth solo album from the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released in July 1974.

Contents

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". The album was dedicated to Hammill's brother, Andrew.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Hammill

  1. "Ferret and Featherbird" – 3:43
  2. "(No More) the Sub-mariner" – 5:47
  3. "Tapeworm" – 4:20
  4. "Again" – 3:44
  5. "Faint-Heart and the Sermon" – 6:42
  6. "The Comet, the Course, the Tail" – 6:00
  7. "Gog" - 7:40
  8. "Magog (in Bromine Chambers" - 9:41

2006 CD-Bonus Tracks from BBC One John Peel Sessions

9. The Emperor is in his War Room - 6:39

10. Faint Heart and the Sermon - 6:05

11. (No more) The Submariner - 6:12

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
  • David Hentschel - engineer, ARP programming, "studio wizardry"

    • Songs

    1Ferret and Featherbird3:42
    2(No More) The Sub-Mariner5:46
    3Tapeworm4:20

    References

    In Camera (Peter Hammill album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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