Sofa Sound
3/2/2010
Back now from a most enjoyable and fruitful bit of touring on which I'll doub tless report in due course.
Meanwhile, five new UK dates have now been added in May and they're up at touring of course.
The DVD of the Passionskirche solo performance has now finally arrived with Voiceprint and we are able to take orders for it. As is customary with Voiceprint releases there's an audio-only CD as well as the DVD. This 1991 concert in Berlin was originally released on video in 1992.
Also finally here is the CD version of Hugh Banton's "The Planets" by Gustav Holst. This is his organ version of the original piano duet score, which was the original starting point for this piece and is played, as was his Goldberg Variations, on instruments of his own design. As with "Passionskirche" it's now available at orders.
Incidentally the k group Markthalle DVD is still in the works but we hope to have news of it soon....
Some solo shows are now confirmed and details are up at touring. I'll be heading for Italy in a couple of days and the January datesheet is now full. The hope is to have some more UK shows in May by the way, but as yet nothing is confirmed.
Remastered versions of "X my heart", "This" and "Roaring Forties" are now out on CD. Stock of these discs had (semi-deliberately) dwindled to nothing and it seemed a good opportunity to give a brush-up to the sonics involved - which to my mind seemed in retrospect a little dull. It's not a massive re-tread or a total remake but I do believe there's a significant increase in aural quality and general punch. Of course they're available at the orders page.
Apart from the physical release you can also now purchase downloads
here, thanks to a new arrangement with burningshed.com. They'll also be
available from all the usual online digi-outlets within the next few
weeks, of course.
And from the past...the new solo CD "Thin Air " is now out, of
course, and a new newsletter has also duly
arrived. The lyrics for
the album are now up on the site, incidentally.
Bad news: the dread hand of Classic Rock, under yet another
name change both of label and of product, has once again appeared. The
laughable (and laughably bad) "Inside VdGG" has been repackaged as "A
Plague of Lighthouse-Keepers". It's the same old exploitative rubbish
of course. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
Many moons have passed...but you may also be interested, now, to go and
check out www.peterhammill.com
where, finally, some lyric-labyrinthine adventures await, thanks to the
indefatigable labours of Adrian. More on this anon, but it's only right
to let you know that
something's been/is afoot there....
Regarding the site...
The intention here is to have a fundamentally "white paper" place from
which information rather than entertainment (or information as
entertainment) can be gleaned. To this end the site should be under
fairly constant revision. Once again, my apologies for being negligent
in this regard over the last few months.