Spur of the Moment [Import]

Peter Hammill | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Red Hot Records
• ASIN: B0009FHK7M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,461 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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

Editorial Reviews

Recordings made in 1988. The fist collaboration by both artists since leaving Van Der Graff Generator. The music is instrumental and totally improvised. Peter Hammill plays grand piano, semi-acoustic guitar and, principally, a mother keyboard driving various rack-mounted samplers and synthesizers. Red Hot. 2005

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars INSTRUMENTAL HAMMILL, August 19, 2003

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r-devic-saint (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spur of the Moment (Audio CD)

PETER HAMMILL IS THE KIND OF ARTIST YOU EITHER LOVE OR HATE, THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND, I LOVE HIS WORK BOTH SOLO AND WITH VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR. BOTH MY WIFE AND MY SONGWRITING PARTNER ARE IN THE OTHER CAMPBUT THEY HAVE OFTEN MADE THE COMMENT THAT THEY MIGHT LIKE AN INSTRUMENTAL CD. WELL HERE IT IS. PARTNERED WITH GUY EVANS THE DRUMMER OF VAN DER GRAAF AND A FREQUENT COLLABORATOR ON HAMMILL'S SOLO ALBUMS, SPUR OF THE MOMENT IS COMPRISED OF SPONTANEOUS IMPROVISATIONS. THESE SOUNDSCAPES ARE REMINICENT OF THE BEST OF BRIAN ENO OR ROBERT FRIPP. THEY ARE SLOWLY EVOLVING, AT TIMES ENCHANTING, AND ALLWAYS LISTENABLE. THE CATCH: THEY LACK THE DRAMA AND EMOTION THAT ARE TYPICAL OF HAMMILL'S BEST VOCAL WORK. THIS MAKES THIS CD AN INTERESTING CURIOSITY BUT NOT AN ESSENTIAL CD FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HIS WORK. PURCHASE THE UNION CHAPEL CONCERT, A MORE VARIED RELEASE BY THESE TWO, FIRST.