And Close As This

1986 studio album by Peter Hammill

And Close As This

Studio album by

Peter Hammill

Released

November 1986

Recorded

7 August - 15 September 1986

Genre

Art rock

Length

40:06

Label

Virgin Records

Producer

Peter Hammill

Peter Hammill chronology

Skin
(1986)

And Close As This
(1986)

Spur of the Moment
(1988)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Sounds	^[2]
Tentative Reviews	^[3]

And Close As This is the 15th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Virgin Records in 1986. Each track is a song played and sung by Hammill solo at a keyboard, with the keyboard parts played in a single take. Two of the songs use a grand piano as the keyboard instrument; for the others, Hammill plays a MIDI master keyboard, using it to trigger a variety of MIDI sound modules, mainly electric piano and organ sounds. Keith Emerson collaborated as composer for the song "Empire of Delight" but did not play on the album.

Track listing

All songs written by Hammill, except where indicated:

"Too Many of My Yesterdays" – 4:47
"Faith" – 4:27
"Empire of Delight" (Hammill, Keith Emerson) – 4:43
"Silver" – 5:31
"Beside the One You Love" – 5:12
"Other Old Clichés" – 4:07
"Confidence" – 6:37
"Sleep Now" – 4:42

Personnel

Peter Hammill – vocals, grand piano, MIDI Master keyboard

Technical

Peter Hammill - recording engineer, mixing (Sofa Sound, Bath)
Paul Ridout – computers, MIDI
Arun Chakraverty – original mastering
Anton Corbijn – photography
Phil Smee – packaging^[4]

References

^ "And Close as This". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
^ "Sounds review". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
^ "Tentative Reviews review". Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
^ "Peter Hammill - And Close As This (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.