Out of Water
Out of Water | ||||
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Studio album by Peter Hammill | ||||
Released | February 1990 | |||
Recorded | January – August 1989 | |||
Studio | Sofa Sound, Wiltshire; Terra Incognita, Bath | |||
Genre | Art rock | |||
Length | 45:15 | |||
Label | Enigma | |||
Producer | Peter Hammill, David Lord | |||
Peter Hammill chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Guardian | (favourable)[2] |
Melody Maker | (beautiful)[3] |
Sounds | (relevant)[4] |
Out of Water is the 17th studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on Enigma Records in 1990 and subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie! label. Hammill himself considers this album to be a turning point from his mid-eighties style.[citation needed]
Two of the performers are credited by the nicknames they were given when they were part of Hammill's K Group in the 1980s: John Ellis (who also painted the picture on the cover) as "Fury" and Nic Potter as "Mozart". The song "A Way Out" is believed to be about the suicide of Hammill's brother.[citation needed]
"Our Oyster" references the 1989 Tiananmen square massacre.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Hammill.
- "Evidently Goldfish" – 5:02
- "Not the Man" – 4:24
- "No Moon in the Water" – 4:36
- "Our Oyster" – 5:33
- "Something about Ysabel's Dance" – 5:32
- "Green Fingers" – 4:35
- "On the Surface" – 8:14
- "A Way Out" – 7:17
Personnel
- Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Stuart Gordon – violin on 5
- John Ellis – guitar on 1, 4, and 7
- David Jackson – saxophone on 3 and 6
- Nic Potter – bass on 3 and 6
Technical
- Peter Hammill - recording engineer, mixing (Sofa Sound/Terra Incognita, Bath)
- David Lord - recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath)
- John Ellis - cover drawing
"Thanks to Gail, Norma and Louise; David, Eda and Gaynor; Neil Perry; Coach; Paul Ridout; Hilary, Holly, Beatrice and Phoebe, Mozart, Jackson, SG and Fury."
References
External links
- Peter Hammill's notes on the album
- v
- t
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- 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