Musicians:
Peter Hammill: plays grand piano, semi-acoustic guitar and, principally,
a mother keyboard driving various rock-mounted samplers and synthesizers
Guy Evans: performs on a percussion "kit" consisting of a number
of acoustic instruments and an Octapad which he triggers a variety of
sampled and synthesized sounds. Some of these belong to the traditional
percussion family, including sampled versions of instruments of his own
design; & pianos, stings, woodwinds and other customised voices.
Tracklist:
1. Sweating it Out
2. Surprise/Little did he Know
3. Without a glitch
4. Anatol's proposal
5. You think Not?
6. Multiman
7. Deprogramming Archie
8. Always so Polite
9. An imagined Brother
10. Bounced
11. Roger and Out
This is the first collaboration between Peter Hammill and Guy Evans since their days in Van der Graaf Generator.
Van der Graaf Generator was one of the best and most important bands ever in progressive rock, and they gave us classical albums such as "H to he who am the only one", "Pawn Hearts" and "Still Life".
This album is however completely different than the Van der Graaf Generator albums, as it's all-instrumental and entirely improvised.
It's hard to categorise the music but I would place it somewhere in-between electronic music, progressive rock and classical music.
It's without doubt two very talented musicians who knows each other very well musically since the Van der Graaf Generator days.
This is music without boundaries, and you have to really sit down and listen to it patiently to fully get the essence of the music and enjoy it, because this is an enjoyable album if you give it some time!
Recommended!
RED HOT CDR 102
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Review by Greger Rönnqvist-