In Camera (Album)
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| Studio album by Peter Hammill | ||||
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Publication |
1974 |
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| Label (s) | Charisma Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, MC, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
47m39s |
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Peter Hammill |
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Studio (s) |
Sofa sound, Trident |
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In Camera (July 1974 ) is Peter Hammill's fourth solo album. In contrast to the two previous albums, Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night and The Silent Corner… , he largely dispensed with guest musicians for the first time. He recorded most of the instruments himself on four-track tape in his own studio, Sofa Sound . Vocals, ARP synthesizers and Guy Evans' drums were recorded in Trident Studio in a very short time. In this way, Hammill was able to produce the album with comparatively little financial outlay, which made him more or less independent of record companies as a solo artist and later enabled him to pursue the career that he still pursues today.
Magog (in Bromine Chambers) is Concrete Music : a ten-minute sound collage in which vocals, piano, guitars, percussion and other instruments have been heavily alienated through tape manipulation. This creates an extremely threatening atmosphere that underlines the text, which seems to describe a kind of eternal damnation or purgatory.
The album In Camera is dedicated to Hammill's brother Andrew, who was in a coma after a bicycle accident at the time of the recording.
Track list
page 1
- Ferret & Featherbird - 3'43 "
- (No More) the Sub-mariner - 5'47 "
- Tapeworm - 4'20 "
- Again - 3'44 "
- Faint-heart & the Sermon - 6'42 "
Page 2
- The Comet, the Course, the Tail - 6'00 "
- Gog - 17'21 " (time together with Magog )
- Magog (in Bromine Chambers)
The 2006 CD remaster also contains three bonus tracks: The Emperor in his War Room , Faint-heart & the Sermon and (No More) the Sub-mariner , all recorded for the BBC in August 1974 .