[art rock] (2017) Peter Hammill - From the Trees [FLAC,Tracks] [DarkAngie]

(2017) Peter Hammill - From the Trees

Review:
Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Peter Hammill’s first solo album since 2014’s hugely ambitious …all that might have been… represents a return to a more intimate style of music. The songs on From the Trees are mostly based on single piano, guitar and vocal parts designed for live performance. Consequently the overdubbing is textural (supportive guitars, a central spine of bass, synth and string washes, multiple voices – backing, harmony, choral – behind the main one).
The characters who pave their fretful way through these songs are in general facing up to or edging in towards twilight. What’s coming to them are moments of realisation rather than resignation. In the third act of life it’s time to look with a clear eye at where one’s been, at where one’s going. Hammill says: “Once again I play and sing all the parts, and have, of course, already performed quite a few of these pieces live.“All of them are on the shorter end of things and generally conventional – as close to conventional as I get – in form.”


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Media Report:
Genre: art rock
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits