Typical (album)

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Typical
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Live album by Peter Hammill
Released April 1999
Recorded 1992
Genre Art rock
Length130:13
Label Fie! Records
Producer Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
This
(1998)
Typical
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Typical is a live album by Peter Hammill, recorded in 1992 and released in 1999. It is a double CD and was released on Hammill's own Fie! Records label. The album was recorded at nine concerts in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy.

Peter Hammill British musician

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer, he also plays guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progressive Music Awards.

Fie! Records is a record label founded by English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill in 1992. The label's logo is the Greek letter phi (Φ), a pun on PH-I.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Room" (7:30)
  2. "Curtains" (6:06)
  3. "Just Good Friends" (4:55)
  4. "Too Many of My Yesterdays" (4:23)
  5. "Vision" (4:32)
  6. "Time to Burn" (5:08)
  7. "The Comet, The Course, The Tail" (9:12)
  8. "I Will Find You" (3:55)
  9. "Ophelia" (4:14)
  10. "Given Time" (4:46)
  11. "Modern" (9:30)
  12. "Time for a Change" (4:14)
  13. "Patient" (8:43)
  14. "Stranger Still" (5:51)
  15. "Our Oyster" (5:46)
  16. "Shell" (4:44)
  17. "A Way Out" (9:06)
  18. "Traintime" (6:10)
  19. "The Future" Now (4:03)
  20. "Afterwards" (6:00) (hidden bonus track)
  21. "Darkness (11/11)" (5:13) (hidden bonus track)
  22. "Central Hotel" (6:12) (hidden bonus track)

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

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References

  1. McDonald, Steven. "Typical - Peter Hammill | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 21 January 2012.