The Seventies prog survivor Peter Hammill is stripped of the embellishments of Van Der Graaf Generator, naked but for piano or guitar, on seven recent live cd’s. Hammill’s declamatory plainsong refutes standard rock procedure, and when he touches your heart, it’s usually via the cerebral cortex.
His piano pieces have an epic Weimar whiff, whilst the sixty-four year old’s brutally pragmatic guitar suggest an anglicised answer to the lo-fi American weird-beard school.
Hammill will free your mind and, though your ass won’t be following anytime soon, he remains a national treasure.
General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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