New two-CD remix for late-period Hammill classic
When he sang ‘How can we be found if we’re lost for words?’ on the final track of Incoherence, Peter Hammill had no idea he would suffer a heart attack days after completing what was his 30th solo album. Originally released in 2004 while he was convalescing, it found Hammill pushing more than usual at songwriting’s boundaries. No stranger to long-form compositions dating back to 1970s VdGG and later solo epics such as Flight from 1980’s A Black Box, and the often overlooked A Headlong Stretch from 1994’s Roaring Forties, conceived as a continuous suite, Incoherence is a little over 42 minutes.
A meditation upon the nature and use of language and its potential shortcomings, the 14 sections that make up the original…
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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 155