Artist.......: Peter Hammill
Album........: Singularity
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Avantgarde
Catnr........: FIE9131
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-03-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Our Eyes Give It Shape 04:33
02. Event Horizon 06:04
03. Famous Last Words 05:51
04. Naked To The Flame 05:27
05. Meanwhile My Mother 04:31
06. Vainglorious Boy 05:12
07. Of Wire, Of Wood 01:35
08. Friday Afternoon 05:04
09. White Dot 06:22
Runtime 44:39 min
Size 61,9 MB
Release Notes:
In 2006 ôVeraciousö, a set of live duo
performances with Stuart Gordon, was released and
Peter also remastered the solo CDs which he had
recorded for Charisma in the 70s. Little wonder,
then, that when he came to write and record
ôSingularityö intimations of mortality and
considerations of history both public and personal
were uppermost in his mind. The main theme here is
the long dive down into not being who we
were....Perhaps inspired by the early Charisma
recordings, ôSingularityö is absolutely a solo
record on which Peter sings and plays all
instruments alone. This is not, though, a folksy
singer-songwriter effort. Experimentation and
change have always been important to Peter and some
of the sonic landscapes encountered here are
strangely new. Warped electric guitars and vocals
crushed into slabs of noise are as likely to appear
as grand pianos or acoustic guitars. Many
definitions of singularity exist and though several
of them have some bearing on and resonance in this
work the principle ones with which Peter identifies
here are the personal (ôunusual, strangeö) and
gravitational (Black Hole). So...it's serious but
it's not devoid of humour, though where this occurs
it's often of a black variety...and often directed
back at the singer himself. After all, we are all
circling just outside the gravitational pull of our
personal black holes...that's where we're heading.
Meanwhile, though, we can whistle a tune, albeit a
strange and singular one.