Roaring Forties (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Roaring Forties
Type = Album
Artist = Peter Hammill

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Released = 1994
Recorded = August 1993-May 1994, Terra Incognita, Bath
Genre = Art rock
Length =
Label = Fie!
Producer = Peter Hammill
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lwamqj5uojda link]
Last album = "The Noise"
(1992)
This album = "Roaring Forties"
(1994)
Next album = "X My Heart"
(1995)

"Roaring Forties" is an album by Peter Hammill, released on his own Fie! label in 1994. It, and the following album, "X My Heart", are Hammill's most recent albums that primarily contain an organic, full-band rock style. While there are occasional tracks on later albums in this style, Hammill's principal mode has moved since this album towards a more intimate, chamber-music style.

The album also contains "A Headlong Stretch", one of Hammill's occasional long, episodic song suites (see also "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" from "Pawn Hearts" and "Flight" from "A Black Box").

Track listing

#"Sharply Unclear"
#"The Gift Of Fire"
#"You Can't Want What You Always Get"
#"A Headlong Stretch" (Up Ahead/Continental Drift/The Twelve/Long Light/Backwards Man/As You Were/Or So I Said)
#"Your Tall Ship"

Personnel

*Peter Hammill: guitar, piano, vocals
*Nic Potter: bass
*Stuart Gordon: violin
*Simon Clarke: organ
*David Jackson: saxophone, flute
*Manny Elias: drums, percussion