The Future Now
1978 studio album by Peter Hammill
The Future Now | ||||
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Studio album by Peter Hammill | ||||
Released | September 1978 | |||
Recorded | 18 March – 26 April 1978 | |||
Studio | Sofa Sound, Byfleet, Surrey | |||
Genre | Art rock | |||
Length | 41:21 | |||
Label | Charisma | |||
Producer | Peter Hammill | |||
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The Future Now is the seventh studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in 1978. It was the first solo album Hammill released following the 1978 breakup of his band Van der Graaf Generator, although he had released numerous solo albums while VdGG were active. The album contains twelve short songs, several in the new wave style of VdGG's last studio album, The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome.
The album cover shows a set of photographs by Brian Griffin, portraying Peter Hammill with half of his moustache and beard shaven.
"If I Could" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Peter Hammill
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Pushing Thirty" | 4:21 |
2. | "The Second Hand" | 3:29 |
3. | "Trappings" | 3:34 |
4. | "The Mousetrap (Caught In)" | 4:07 |
5. | "Energy Vampires" | 2:57 |
6. | "If I Could" | 4:43 |
Total length: | 23:08 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Future Now" | 4:14 |
2. | "Still In The Dark" | 3:41 |
3. | "Mediaevil" | 3:07 |
4. | "A Motor-Bike In Afrika" | 3:11 |
5. | "The Cut" | 4:21 |
6. | "Palinurus (Castaway)" | 4:10 |
Total length: | 22:42 |
- Bonus tracks
- Recorded live at the All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, on 16 February 1978
- "If I Could"
- "The Mousetrap (Caught In)"
Personnel
- Peter Hammill – guitars, vocals, keyboards, harmonica, electronics
- David Jackson – saxophone (1, 2, 12)
- Graham Smith – violin (5, 6, 12)
Technical
- Peter Hammill - recording engineer (Sofa Sound, Byfleet, Surrey)[2]
- Pat Moran – mixing (Rockfield Studios, Monmouth)
- Brian Griffin – photography
References
External links
- Peter Hammill's notes on the album
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Peter Hammill
- Fool's Mate (1971)
- Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973)
- The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
- In Camera (1974)
- Nadir's Big Chance (1975)
- Over (1977)
- The Future Now (1978)
- pH7 (1979)
- A Black Box (1980)
- Sitting Targets (1981)
- Enter K (1982)
- Loops and Reels (1983)
- Patience (1983)
- Skin (1986)
- And Close As This (1986)
- Spur of the Moment (1988)
- In a Foreign Town (1988)
- Out of Water (1990)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1991)
- Fireships (1992)
- The Noise (1993)
- Roaring Forties (1994)
- X My Heart (1996)
- Sonix - Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996 (1996)
- Everyone You Hold (1997)
- This (1998)
- The Appointed Hour (1999)
- None of the Above (2000)
- What, Now? (2001)
- Unsung (2001)
- Clutch (2002)
- Incoherence (2004)
- Singularity (2006)
- Thin Air (2009)
- Consequences (2012)
- Other World (2014)
- ...All That Might Have Been... (2014)
- From the Trees (2017)
- In Translation (2021)
- The Margin (1985)
- Room Temperature (1990)
- There Goes the Daylight (1993)
- The Peel Sessions (1995)
- The Union Chapel Concert (1997)
- Typical (1999)
- The Margin + (2002)
- Veracious (2006)
- Pno Gtr Vox (2011)
- Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012)
- Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016)
- X/Ten (2018)
- Not Yet Not Now (2019)
- "Red Shift" (1973)
- "Birthday Special" (1975)
- "Crying Wolf" (1977)
- "If I Could" (1978)
- "The Polaroid" (1979)
- "My Experience" (1981)
- "Paradox Drive" (1982)
- "Film Noir" (1983)
- "Just Good Friends" (1985)
- "Painting by Numbers" (1986)
- A Fix on the Mix (1992) (CD, EP)
- In the Passionskirche (1992)
- Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
- Vision (1978)
- The Love Songs (1984)
- The Essential Collection (1986)
- The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993)
- The Calm (After the Storm) (1993)
- Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993)
- After the Show - A Collection (1996)
- Past Go: Collected (1996)
- The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
- Judge Smith
- David Jackson
- Guy Evans
- John Ellis
- Nic Potter
- Roger Eno
- Stuart Gordon