Margin [Extra tracks, Import]

Peter Hammill | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Fie
• ASIN: B000067CIZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. The Future Now

2. Porton Down

3. Stranger Still

4. Sign

5. Jargon King

6. Empress's Clothes

7. The Sphinx in the Face

8. Labour of Love

9. Sitting Targets

10. Patient

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Second Hand

2. My Experience

3. Paradox Drive

4. Modern

5. Film Noir

6. The Great Experiment

7. Happy Hour

8. Central Hotel

9. Again

10. If I Could

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly Contemporary........., October 22, 2006

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M. Gaines (Alabama, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Margin (Audio CD)

One of Hammill's many interestingly creative periods, The Margin represents his K period 82-85 with Nic Potter, Guy Ellis and VDGG original Guy Evans, one of my very favorite periods that produced studio efforts "Enter K" and "Patience". The Margin follows on as a representation of the magic they produced together in a live setting.

Recently reissued as a two disc expanded set (2002) with additional liner notes from Hammill this is a must own set for any collection that contains VDGG or Hammill material.

Upon revsiting in it's new format I'm taken back at how amazing this set really is with an over the wall version of "Future Now", the impactfull and reflective "Porton Down" while the 20+ minutes of "Flight" from "A Black Box" is stunning.

A must own piece of music that never dates by a truly inventive and creative soul that refuses to give into the fame machine.

Awesome stuff experienced by the few who know.......................

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the best intro to his music; essential for Hammill fans, October 25, 2002

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Ignaciocue (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Margin (Audio CD)

The players: the great HAMMILL on vox and piano. Extraordinaire ex Van der graaf drummer guy evans, Nic potter, also former VDGG on bass, and a very good ex- Stranglers axe man. Their chemistry is perfect and the material is way deep. The sound is that of a very acceptable remastered, clean, Bootleg.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Margin and a Big Plus, May 25, 2007

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Stephen Andrews "salvation21" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Margin (Audio CD)

Which version of The Margin would you like, sir? The original 1985 double vinyl version on Foundry (FONDL 1); or the Virgin single CD reissue (CDOVD 345) which omitted 'The Second Hand'; or the German Date single CD reissue (DACD 9005790) which omitted both 'The Second Hand' and 'The Sphinx in the Face'; or the illicit bootleg version, 'The Secret Asteroid Jungle'; or the other illicit bootleg version, 'A Stranger Still'? These last two feature hardly sparkling audience recordings and are unavailable and not to be purchased even if they were as they are illegal. Which is a shame as, on the latter, you get a virtually complete K Group set, with tracks such as 'The Siren Song', 'Just Good Friends', 'Losing Faith in Words', amongst other classics, unavailable elsewhere, not even on this, The Margin + , on Hammill's Fie!, the remastered, crystalline version which strikes a balance between the original official recordings on CD1; and audaciously steals back ( and quite right too) from the bootleggers, virtually all the illegal 'The Secret Asteroid Jungle' recording to make up CD2. By the way, for the completist, it restores, albeit in a different version to the original LP version, 'The Second Hand'. It's a secret asteroid jungle out there, Margin fans. Hammill also adds some illuminating and atmospheric liner 'your correspondent on the spot' notes that take us back to the German beat-club space-time continuum in which the K Group performed...