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PH7 (Peter Hammill album)

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Released
  
September 1979

Artist
  
Peter Hammill

Producer
  
Peter Hammill

pH7 (1979)
  
A Black Box (1980)

Release date
  
September 1979

Label
  
Charisma Records

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

Similar
  
The Future Now, A Black Box, The Silent Corner and the Empty, Fool's Mate, In Camera

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pH7 is an album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Charisma Records in September 1979. It was Hammill's 8th solo album and his last release on the Charisma label.

Contents

The song "Porton Down" refers to the Porton Down military research facility in Wiltshire, England, while the lyrics of "Imperial Walls" are a translation of the first few lines of the Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Ruin".

The song "Not For Keith" is a tribute to Keith Ellis, a former member of the band Van der Graaf Generator, who had then died just recently.

"Cover note: The photographs were all taken late at night in NYC. As we left Dan's [the photographer's] place in search of a cab Graham [Smith] and I ran into some trouble from which, frankly, we were lucky to escape...".

Track listing

All tracks by Peter Hammill, except where noted.

  1. "My Favourite"
  2. "Careering"
  3. "Porton Down"
  4. "Mirror Images"
  5. "Handicap and Equality"
  6. "Not For Keith"
  7. "The Old School Tie"
  8. "Time For A Change" (Chris Judge Smith, Steve Robshaw)
  9. "Imperial Walls"
  10. "Mr. X (Gets Tense)"
  11. "Faculty X"

In 2006, the album was remastered and expanded, adding alternative versions of "Mr X (Gets Tense)" and "Faculty X" recorded for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 programme as well as a fresh sleeve note by Hammill.

US/Canada vinyl press has an additional track at the end of side A, "Polaroid".

Side A

  1. "My Favourite"
  2. "Careering"
  3. "Porton Down"
  4. "Mirror Images"
  5. "Handicap and Equality"
  6. "Not For Keith"
  7. "Polaroid"

Side B

  1. "The Old School Tie"
  2. "Time For A Change" (Chris Judge Smith, Steve Robshaw)
  3. "Imperial Walls"
  4. "Mr. X (Gets Tense)"
  5. "Faculty X"

Personnel

  • Peter Hammill - voice, guitar, keyboards, percussion
  • Graham Smith - violin (1,3,10,11)
  • David Jackson - saxophone, flute (2,3,11)
    • Technical
  • Pat Moran - engineer, mixing
  • Rocking Russian - artwork
  • Dan Kirk - photography

    • Songs

    1My Favourite2:52
    2Careering4:06
    3Porton Down3:42

    References

    PH7 (Peter Hammill album) Wikipedia
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