In Camera (album)

Infobox Album | Name = In Camera
Type = Album
Artist = Peter Hammill

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Released = July 1974
Recorded = December 1973 - April 1974
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 47:34
Label = Charisma
Producer = Peter Hammill
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7zfqoaeabijx link]
Last album = "The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage"
(1974)
This album = "In Camera"
(1974)
Next album = "Nadir's Big Chance"
(1975)

"In Camera" was the fourth solo album from the English singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released in July 1974. Much of the material was recorded in Hammill's home studio on simple four-track equipment. He then took the tapes to Trident Studios, where additional elements such as drumming from Van der Graaf Generator colleague Guy Evans, and layers of ARP 2600 analogue synthesizer were added. The album has a dark, gothic, claustrophobic feel, with the lyrics laced with apocalyptic, religious and existential imagery. "Gog" is a particularly intense and demonic song, featuring (even by Hammill's standards) strident and aggressive vocals, grandiose harmonium chords, and powerful drumming. This segués into "Magog", which is virtually a musique concrete piece of sinister drones, percussive noises, and including a ring modulated spoken vocal.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Hammill
#"Ferret and Featherbird" – 3:43
#"(No More) the Sub-mariner" – 5:47
#"Tapeworm" – 4:20
#"Again" – 3:44
#"Faint-Heart and the Sermon" – 6:42
#"The Comet, the Course, the Tail" – 6:00
#"Gog"
#"Magog (in Bromine Chambers)"
#*7 and 8 are typically combined into one track with a total time of – 17:21

Personnel

*Peter Hammill – Guitar, bass guitar, piano, harmonium, ARP 2600 synthesizer, mellotron, vocals
*Guy Evans – drums on 3 and 7
*Chris Judge Smith – percussion, backing vocals on 8
*Paul Whitehead – percussion on 8

External links

* [http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/incamera.htm Album information on the unofficial VdGG site]
* [http://www.sofasound.com/phcds/iccd.htm Artist's notes]