In Camera (Peter Hammill album)
Occupation
- Peter Hammill - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, piano, mellotron, harmonium, synthesizer
- Guy Evans - drums on Tapeworm and Gog
- Paul Whitehead - percussion on Magog
- Chris Judge Smith - percussion and vocals on Magog
In Camera ( July 1974) Peter Hammills 's fourth solo album. In contrast to the previous two albums, Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night and The Silent Corner ..., he renounced the first time here largely on guest musicians. Most of the instruments he took himself in his own recording studio Sofasound on vierspurigem tape; Singing, ARP synthesizer and Guy Evans ' drums were recorded in a short time in Trident Studio. In this way, Hammill could produce the album with comparatively little cost, making him as a solo artist more or less made independent of record companies and later the career allowed him, which he followed until today.
Magog ( in Bromine Chambers ) is concrete music: a ten-minute sound collage, were strongly alienated in voice, piano, guitars, percussion and other instruments through tape manipulation. So an extremely threatening atmosphere is created that contains the text that seems to describe a kind of eternal damnation or purgatory accompanied.
The album In Camera is dedicated Hammills Brother Andrew, who was after a bicycle accident in a coma at the time of the recordings.
Track list
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The 2006 released CD remaster also includes three bonus tracks: The Emperor in his War Room, Faint -heart & the Sermon and ( No More ) the Sub - mariner, all taken in August 1974 for the BBC.