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Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album)

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Released
  
5 March 2007

Length
  
128:46

Artist
  
Van der Graaf Generator

Label
  
Fie! Records

Recorded
  
6 May 2005

Real Time (2007)
  
Trisector (2008)

Release date
  
5 March 2007

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Producer
  
Van der Graaf Generator

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Art rock

Similar
  
Van der Graaf Generator albums, Art rock albums

Real Time is a live album by Van der Graaf Generator, released in 2007 on Fie! Records (the label owned by the group's singer and principal songwriter Peter Hammill). It contains the entire recording of the group's reunion concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England on 6 May 2005. The Japanese release of the album includes a bonus disc of three songs recorded live at the reunion tour that followed the RFH concert, plus one track of improvisation recorded while the group were soundchecking ("Gibberish").

Contents

Disc One

  1. "The Undercover Man" (Hammill) - 8:29
  2. "Scorched Earth" (Hammill, Jackson) - 10:05
  3. "Refugees" (Hammill) - 6:01
  4. "Every Bloody Emperor" (Hammill) - 7:36
  5. "Lemmings" (Hammill) - 13:20
  6. "(In the) Black Room" (Hammill) - 11:16
  7. "Nutter Alert" (Hammill) - 6:05
  8. "Darkness" (Hammill) - 7:20

Disc Two

  1. "Masks" (Hammill) - 6:47
  2. "Childlike Faith in Childhood's End" (Hammill) - 12:34
  3. "The Sleepwalkers" (Hammill) - 10:44
  4. "Man-Erg" (Hammill) - 11:36
  5. "Killer" (Banton, Hammill, Smith) - 9:55
  6. "Wondering" (Banton, Hammill) - 7:01

Bonus tracks on the Japanese edition (released on Strange Days Records)

  1. "Pilgrims" - 7:30 (recorded Paris, 12 July 2005)
  2. "When She Comes" - 8:08 (recorded Amsterdam, 23 July 2005)
  3. "Still Life" - 7:51 (recorded Taormina, 15 July 2005)
  4. "Gibberish" - 13:37 (recorded Amsterdam soundcheck, 23 July 2005)

Personnel

Van der Graaf Generator
  • Peter Hammill – guitar, vocals, keyboards
  • Hugh Banton – organ, bass pedal
  • Guy Evans – drums, percussion
  • David Jackson – saxophone, flute

    • Songs

    1The Undercover Man8:28
    2Scorched Earth10:05
    3Refugees6:00

    References

    Real Time (Van der Graaf Generator album) Wikipedia
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