Peter Hammill

Pno, Gtr, Vox, Box is a limited edition 7 cd deluxe box set with a 24 page booklet (featuring sleevenotes from PH), which greatly expands on the recently released Pno Gtr Vox double cd (both discs of which are included here).

Of the five additional discs, one is a set of VdGG/VdG songs and one a set imagining 'What if I knew this was the last show I'd ever do?', the others comprise 'Songs I didn't play in Japan', 'Songs I dropped from the setlists' and 'The best alternate versions'.

Each CD comes in a wallet featuring photographs from Peter's personal collection of dressing room and way-to-the-stage shots.

Limited to 2000 copies globally.

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While continuing to play his part with noisemakers supreme Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill has found himself increasingly drawn towards genuine stripped-down solo performance when playing under his own name.

This double CD, taken from concerts in Japan and the UK in 2010 is Peter's first solo live recording since 1999 and shows him at the peak of his powers, pushing and stretching both himself and the material into and out of shape.

One CD is of Piano songs, the other guitar ones, with material being taken from all stages of Peter's illustrious career.

Released in December 2006, Singularity was the first PH album to be recorded after suffering a heart attack in 2003.

A compelling and dark album, some of the songs refer directly to this experience, while others address the nature of mortality in different ways.

Written, played and produced entirely by PH, on its release, Singularity was hailed by many reviewers as one of his finest releases since the 1980s.

Peter Hammill's 1971 debut release Fool's Mate is a peculiar mix of delicate ballads and abrasive miniatures, containing several of his most beautiful songs (Vision, Child, The Birds, Summer Song In The Autumn etc).

Robert Fripp contributes some inventively idiosyncratic guitar and various members of VDGG and Lindisfarne also appear.

Contains 5 bonus tracks and a booklet with sleeve notes by Mark Powell.

Critically lauded on its release, A Grounding in Numbers was VDGGs 12th studio album.

Mixed by Hugh Padgham, the album possesses a clarity and depth of sound that sees the veteran VDGG cultivating its unique sound in an emphatically modern way.

Includes the graceful opener Your Time Starts Now and the muscular single Highly Strung.

1978's live double Vital is the most rough, ready and brutal album of VDGG's career.

While still embracing the band's unique character and complexity, the album's sound and performances also reflect the tumultuous Punk dominated musical changes of the era in which it was recorded.

2005 digitally remastered double cd edition.

Alongside Pawn Hearts and Godbluff, Still Life, from 1976, is the most celebrated release in Van Der Graaf Generator's back catalogue.

Perhaps the grandest and most epic statement from one the grandest and most epic bands of the last four decades.

Contains the 10 and a half minute extra track Gog and a booklet with sleeve notes.

VDGG's incomparable 1971 masterpiece contains 45 minutes of Gothic, haunted house atmospherics and beautiful song fragments beaten into submission by lunatic, dissonant riffing.

A spellbinding achievement.

Digitally re-mastered edition featuring extra tracks.

A captivating DVD featuring a performance by Van Der Graaf Generator filmed at The Paradiso in 2007.

Containing the complete performance, the DVD also includes a bonus interview with Peter Hammill from April 2009.

The package comes with sleeve notes by Peter Hammill.

A double CD audio version is also available.

Thin Air is Peter Hammill’s twenty-eighth solo album of original songs and follows an eventful few years (a heart attack in December 2003 and a hugely successful Van der Graaf Generator reunion in 2004).

Singularity, his last solo work, was released in 2006 and was acclaimed as Peter's most innovative and important release since his late 70s/early 80s masterpieces, The Future Now and A Black Box.

A fascinating and mature addition to Peter’s brilliant body of work.

Originally released in 1992, Fireships was the first release on Peter Hammill's own Fie! Records label and was also the first (and last!) release in the 'BeCalm' series.

Operating at the gentler and more introspective end of PH's output, Fireships is one of the most melodic and highly regarded albums of his long and varied career.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

Patience was Peter Hammill's second album with the K Group and is very much a conceptual companion to its predecessor, Enter K.

Perhaps richer and more complex, the album contains Hammill signature song Labour Of Love, poignant ballad Just Good Friends and the menacing closer, Patient.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

1982's Enter K was Peter Hammill's first album with the K Group (featuring PH, alongside ex Vibrator John Ellis and former Van Der Graaf Generator members, Nic Potter and Guy Evans).

A powerful and lean album, combining Hammill's idiosyncratic style with the Post Punk spirit of the age, Enter K contains the classic ballad Don't Tell Me and the epic Happy Hour.

Features the non-album b-side, Seven Wonders.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

Recorded between 1980 and 1983, primarily for film and dance works, Loops & Reels was the first of Peter Hammill's Sonix series and contained music recorded in a spirit of experimentation, outside the normal world of the song.

The album includes A Ritual Mask, Peter's astonishing contribution to the first, fund-raising, WOMAD record and the 16 minute atmospheric epic, My Pulse.

The Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Newly re-mastered edition.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

The pieces on this final album in the (unintended) Sonix series of releases began life as experiments intended to lead to potential PH songs.

In the end, determined by their own rules, the pieces went in their own, often strange, directions.

The Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

Sonix continued Peter Hammill's 'outside-the-box' Sonix series of releases with music which was, for the most part, originally composed for film and dance.

The album's sonic experiments encompass near-string quartet pieces, raw feedback guitar explorations, and a modern-day version of player-piano work.

Music from beneath the surface and behind the light, the Sonix series provides an indispensable guide to the more experimental side of Peter Hammill's work.

Newly re-mastered.

Dating from 1991, the long out of print Spur Of The Moment comprises a set of improvised pieces from Van Der Graaf alumni Hammill and Evans.

Born out of an interest in exploring the possibilities of MIDI (in the early days of the system), the album provides a fascinating snapshot of music technology history, as well as an opportunity to hear two remarkable musicians at their exploratory best.

Hugh Banton (Van Der Graaf Generator) performs a solo organ rendition of Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.

Also available as mp3 / flac download.

Originally released in 1998, This marked a return to a more atmospheric solo music following band orientated albums such as X My Heart.

Highlights include the Ambient epic, The Light Continent, and the powerful Unrehearsed.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

A more song-based album than its predecessor, Roaring Forties, X My Heart, as with the majority of PH's output, remains a unique and uncompromising listen.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.

Dating from 1994, Roaring Forties combines Hammill's disparate passions for noise, beauty and epic ambition.

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The 'beast' to Fireships 'beauty', The Noise was the first and only entry in Peter Hammill's 'A Loud' series.

The Noise finds PH on harder hitting and more Rock-orientated form than usual and, in some ways, acts as a 1990s extension of his earlier work with the K Group.

Available on cd, and mp3/flac download.