In Camera (Peter Hammill album)

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In Camera (Peter Hammill album) - Wikipedia

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In Camera

Studio album by

Peter Hammill

Released

July 1974

Recorded

December 1973 – April 1974

Studio

Sofa Sound, Sussex
Trident Studios, London

Genre

Art rock, progressive rock, experimental rock

Length

47:47

Label

Charisma

Producer

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
(1974)

In Camera
(1974)

Nadir's Big Chance
(1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

In Camera is the fourth solo album from the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released in July 1974.

Much of the material was recorded in Hammill's home studio on simple four-track equipment. He then took the tapes to Trident Studios, where additional elements such as drumming from Van der Graaf Generator colleague Guy Evans, and layers of ARP 2600 analogue synthesizer were added. The album has a predominantly dark, gothic, claustrophobic feel, with the lyrics laced with apocalyptic, religious and existential imagery. "Gog" is a particularly intense and demonic song, featuring (even by Hammill's standards) strident and aggressive vocals, grandiose harmonium chords, and powerful drumming. This segués into "Magog", which is virtually a musique concrète piece of sinister drones, percussive noises, and including a ring modulated spoken vocal. Songs such as "Ferret and Featherbird" and "Again" are gentler offerings, and Hammill refers to the first as "something approaching a 'sweet' song".^[2] The album was dedicated to Hammill's brother, Andrew.

"Again" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Peter Hammill

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Ferret and Featherbird"	3:43
2.	"(No More) the Sub-mariner"	5:47
3.	"Tapeworm"	4:20
4.	"Again"	3:44
5.	"Faint-Heart and the Sermon"	6:42
Total length:		24:26

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"The Comet, the Course, the Tail"	6:00
7.	"Gog"	7:40
8.	"Magog (in Bromine Chambers)"	9:41
Total length:		23:21

2006 CD bonus tracks from BBC One John Peel Sessions
No.	Title	Length
9.	"The Emperor in His War Room"	6:39
10.	"Faint-Heart and the Sermon"	6:05
11.	"(No More) the Sub-mariner"	6:12

Some CDs index "Gog" and "Magog..." as one track.^[3]

Personnel

Peter Hammill – vocals, piano (1–5, 8), acoustic and electric guitars (1, 3–6, 8), bass guitar (2–4, 6, 7), ARP 2600 synthesizer (2, 5, 6, 8), Mellotron (5, 8), harmonium (7)
Guy Evans – drums (3, 7)
Chris Judge Smith – percussion, backing vocals (8)
Paul Whitehead – percussion (8)

Technical

Peter Hammill – recording engineer (Sofa Sound, Sussex)
David Hentschel – recording engineer, ARP programming, mixing, "studio wizardry" (Trident Studios, London)

References

^ Allmusic review
^ "In Camera". www.sofasound.com. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ Virgin CASCD 1089

External links

Album information on the unofficial VdGG site

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Studio albums	Fool's Mate (1971) Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973) The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974) In Camera (1974) Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977) The Future Now (1978) pH7 (1979) A Black Box (1980) Sitting Targets (1981) Enter K (1982) Loops and Reels (1983) Patience (1983) Skin (1986) And Close As This (1986) Spur of the Moment (1988) In a Foreign Town (1988) Out of Water (1990) The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) Fireships (1992) The Noise (1993) Roaring Forties (1994) X My Heart (1996) Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996) Everyone You Hold (1997) This (1998) The Appointed Hour (1999) None of the Above (2000) What, Now? (2001) Unsung (2001) Clutch (2002) Incoherence (2004) Singularity (2006) Thin Air (2009) Consequences (2012) Other World (2014) ...All That Might Have Been... (2014) From the Trees (2017) In Translation (2021)
Live albums	The Margin (1985) Room Temperature (1990) There Goes the Daylight (1993) The Peel Sessions (1995) The Union Chapel Concert (1997) Typical (1999) The Margin + (2002) Veracious (2006) Pno Gtr Vox (2011) Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012) Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016) X/Ten (2018) Not Yet Not Now (2019)
Singles	"Red Shift" (1973) "Birthday Special" (1975) "Crying Wolf" (1977) "If I Could" (1978) "The Polaroid" (1979) "My Experience" (1981) "Paradox Drive" (1982) "Film Noir" (1983) "Just Good Friends" (1985) "Painting by Numbers" (1986) A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live videos	In the Passionskirche (1992) Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums	Vision (1978) The Love Songs (1984) The Essential Collection (1986) The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993) The Calm (After the Storm) (1993) Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993) After the Show - A Collection (1996) Past Go: Collected (1996) The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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