Artist: 
Peter Hammill

The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986

Limited CD + Blu-Ray Boxset
€144,99

Release date: 26 September 2025

Dieses Super-Deluxe-Box-Set enthält alle 13 Alben von Peter Hammill, die bei Charisma und Virgin veröffentlicht wurden. Alle neu gemastert von den Original-Masterbändern, zusammen mit neuen 5.1- und Stereo-Mischungen von „The Future Now“ und „pH7“ von Stephen W Tayler, seltenen BBC-Sessions und Live-Aufnahmen sowie einer Blu-ray-Video-Disc mit seltenen, bisher unveröffentlichten Fernsehauftritten. Zum Set gehört außerdem ein 12 Zoll großes, 76-seitiges Hardcover-Buch mit seltenen Bildern und einem neuen, ausführlichen Essay von Peter Hammill höchstpersönlich.

 

CD One:

“Fool’s Mate”

1.     Imperial Zeppelin

2.     Candle

3.     Happy

4.     Solitude

5.     Vision

6.     Re-Awakening

7.     Sunshine

8.     Child

9.     Summer Song in the Autumn

10.  Viking

11.  The Birds

12.  I Once Wrote Some Poems

Bonus tracks:

Demo session

Recorded in January 1971

13.  Re-Awakening (demo)

14.  Summer Song in the Autumn (demo)

15.  The Birds (demo)

16.  Sunshine (demo)

17.  Happy (demo)

 

CD Two:

“Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night”

1.     German Overalls

2.     Slender Threads

3.     Rock and Role

4.     In the End

5.     What it’s Worth

6.     Easy to Slip Away

7.     Dropping the Torch

8.     (In the) Black Room / The Tower

Bonus tracks:

9.     Rain 3am

Recorded in 1973

10.  Time for a Change

11.  German Overalls

12.  Easy to Slip Away

13.  In the End

 

BBC Radio John Peel session – 9th July 1973

CD Three:

“The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage”

1.     Modern

2.     Wilhemina

3.     The Lie (Bernini’s Saint Theresa)

4.     Forsaken Gardens

5.     Red Shift

6.     Rubicon

7.     A Louse is Not a Home

 

CD Four:

Live Recordings 1974

1.     Rubicon

2.     Red Shift

BBC Radio John Peel session – 18th February 1974

3.     Solitude

4.     Time for a Change

5.     The Birds

6.     Out of My Book

7.     Slender Threads

8.     German Overalls

 

Live at Montreal University Sports Centre – 21st April 1974

CD Five:

“In Camera”

1.     Ferret and Featherbird

2.     (No More) The Sub Mariner

3.     Tapeworm

4.     Again

5.     Faint Heart and the Sermon

6.     The Comet, The Course, The Tail

7.     Gog

8.     Magog (In Bromine Chambers)

 Bonus tracks:

9.     The Emperor in His War Room

10.  Faint Heart and the Sermon

11.  (No More) The Sub Mariner

 

BBC Radio John Peel session – 3rd September 1974

CD Six:

“Nadir’s Big Chance”

1.     Nadir’s Big Chance

2.     The Institute of Mental Health, Burning

3.     Open Your Eyes

4.     Nobody’s Business

5.     Been Alone So Long

6.     Pompeii

7.     Shingle Song

8.     Airport

9.     People You Were Going To

10.  Birthday Special

11.  Two or Three Spectres

 

CD Seven:

“Over”

1.     Crying Wolf

2.     Autumn

3.     Time Heals

4.     Alice (Letting Go)

5.     This Side of the Looking Glass

6.     Betrayed

7.     (On Tuesday’s She Used to Do) Yoga

8.     Lost and Found

Bonus tracks:

9.     Afterwards

10.  Autumn

11.  Betrayed

 

BBC Radio One John Peel session – 21st April 1977

CD Eight:

“The Future Now”

1.     Pushing Thirty

2.     The Second Hand     

3.     Trappings                   

4.     The Mousetrap

5.     Energy Vampires       

6.     If I Could        

7.     The Future Now

8.     Still in the Dark

9.     Mediaeval      

10.  A Motor-Bike in Africa

11.  The Cut

12.  Palinurus (Castaway)

 

CD Nine:

The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA

16th February 1978

1.     House With No Door

2.     Time Heals

3.     This Side of the Looking Glass

4.     My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)

5.     Easy to Slip Away

6.     Still Life

7.     Lizard Play

8.     Time for a Change

9.     Been Alone So Long

10.  Modern

11.  If I Could

12.  Last Frame

 

CD Ten:

The All Souls Unitarian Church, Kansas City, USA

16th February 1978

1.     The Comet, The Course, The Tail

2.     The Lie (Bernini’s Saint Theresa)

3.     The Mousetrap (Caught In)

4.     In the End

5.     Medley: A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / The Sleepwalkers

6.     Man-Erg

 

CD Eleven:

“pH7”

1.     My Favourite

2.     Careering

3.     Porton Down

4.     Mirror Images

5.     Handicap and Equality

6.     Not for Keith

7.     The Old School Tie

8.     Time for a Change

9.     Imperial Walls

10.  Mr X (Gets Tense)

11.  Faculty X

Bonus tracks:

12.  Mediaeval / Time for a Change

13.  Mr X (Gets Tense)

14.  Faculty X

BBC Radio John Peel session – 24th September 1979

15.  The Polaroid

A-side of single – Released as Charisma CB 399 in August 1979

Credited to Rikki Nadir

 

CD Twelve:

“A Black Box”

1.     Golden Promises

2.     Losing Faith in Words

3.     Jargon King

4.     Fogwalking

5.     The Spirit

6.     In Slow Time

7.     The Wipe

8.     Flight

Flying Bird

The White Cave Fandango

Control

Cockpit

Silk Worm Wings

Nothing is Nothing

A Black Box

 

CD Thirteen:

“Sitting Targets”

1.     Breakthrough

2.     My Experience

3.     Ophelia

4.     Empress’s Clothes

5.     Glue

6.     Hesitation

7.     Sitting Targets

8.     Stranger Still

9.     Sign

10.  What I Did

11.  Central Hotel

 

CD Fourteen:

“The Love Songs”

1.     Just Good Friends

2.     My favourite

3.     Been Alone So Long

4.     Ophelia

5.     Again

6.     If I Could

7.     Vision

8.     Don’t Tell Me

9.     The Birds

10.  (This Side of) The Looking Glass

Bonus track:

11.  Just Good Friends (instrumental)

B-side of single – Released as Charisma CB 414 in May 1985

 

CD Fifteen:

“Skin”

1.     Skin

2.     After the Show

3.     Painting By Numbers

4.     Shell

5.     All Said and Done

6.     A Perfect Date

7.     Four Pails

8.     Now Lover

Bonus track:

9.     You Hit Me Where I Live

 

CD Sixteen:

“And Close as This”

1.     Too Many of My Yesterdays

2.     Faith

3.     Empire of Delight

4.     Silver

5.     Beside the One You Love

6.     Other Old Cliches

7.     Confidence

8.     Sleep Now

 

CD Seventeen:

“The Future Now”

Stephen W Tayler stereo remix

1.     Pushing Thirty

2.     The Second Hand     

3.     Trappings                   

4.     The Mousetrap (Caught In)

5.     Energy Vampires       

6.     If I Could        

7.     The Future Now

8.     Still in the Dark

9.     Mediaeval      

10.  A Motor-Bike in Africa

11.  The Cut

12.  Palinurus (Castaway)

 

CD Eighteen:

“pH7”

Stephen W Tayler stereo remix

1.     My Favourite

2.     Careering

3.     Porton Down

4.     Mirror Images

5.     Handicap and Equality

6.     Not for Keith

7.     The Old School Tie

8.     Time for a Change

9.     Imperial Walls

10.  Mr X (Gets Tense)

11.  Faculty X

 

Disc Nineteen – Blu ray

“The Future Now”

Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix

1.     Pushing Thirty

2.     The Second Hand     

3.     Trappings                   

4.     The Mousetrap

5.     Energy Vampires       

6.     If I Could        

7.     The Future Now

8.     Still in the Dark

9.     Mediaeval      

10.  A Motor-Bike in Afrika

11.  The Cut

12.  Palinurus (Castaway)

 

“pH7”

Stephen W Tayler High resolution 5.1 Surround Sound mix / new stereo remix

1.     My Favourite

2.     Careering

3.     Porton Down

4.     Mirror Images

5.     Handicap and Equality

6.     Not for Keith

7.     The Old School Tie

8.     Time for a Change

9.     Imperial Walls

10.  Mr X (Gets Tense)

11.  Faculty X

 

Disc Twenty - Blu-ray

The video vaults

1.     In the End

2.     German Overalls

 

French TV – Rock en Stock 1973

3.     The Lie

4.     Forsaken Gardens

5.     A Louse is Not a Home

 

Swiss Television 1974

6.     Energy Vampires

7.     My Room

 

French TV – Chorus 1979

8.     Tintagel By the Sea

 

BBC TV – “Playaway” 15th December 1979

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Format Album
Release Date 2025
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