Peter Hammill – Patience
(Mercury Records 1983 8142291)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2
Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some slight wear to edges and a little rubbing across the top
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some light creasing on corners
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founding member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer, he also plays guitar and piano. He also acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists. In 2012, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the first Progressive Music Awards.
Patience is an album by Peter Hammill. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill’s band Van der Graaf Generator. It was remastered in 1991 and released on Fie! Records. It was the second album to feature the collective known as the K Group (the first was Enter K) — Hammill, Guy Evans (Hammill’s former colleague in VdGG), John Ellis (of The Vibrators), and Nic Potter (also occasionally of VdGG.)
Patience reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.
The members of the K Group adopted aliases for this and some other recordings. Hammill was “K”, Evans was “Brain”, Ellis was “Fury” and Potter was “Mozart”.
“Patient”, “Traintime” and “Comfortable” have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in recent years.
Track listing
All songs written by Peter Hammill.
- “Labour of Love” – 5:52
- “Film Noir” – 4:16
- “Just Good Friends” – 4:26
- “Jeunesse Dorée” – 4:45
- “Traintime” – 4:25
- “Now More Than Ever” – 5:36
- “Comfortable” – 4:54
- “Patient” – 6:14
Personnel
- Peter Hammill – vocals, keyboards, guitar
- Guy Evans – drums, percussion
- Nic Potter – bass
- John Ellis – guitar
Additional players
- David Jackson – saxophone and panpipes on 1 and 7
- Stuart Gordon – violin on 3
- David Lord – Prophet 5 on 3
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