VAN DER
GRAAF GENERATOR
“ H to He, Who
am the Only One ”
album
1970
3rd
studio album
progressive
rock
εποχές βινυλίου
/ - το εξώφυλλο (εμπροσθότυπος)
/ - το εξώφυλλο (οπισθότυπος)
/
- το βινύλιο
Side
A
/
- “ Killer
”
/
- “ House with No Door ”
/
- “ The
Emperor in His War Room ”
/
- το βινύλιο
Side
B
/
- “ Lost
”
/ a. The Dance in Sand and Sea
/
b. The Dance in Frost
/
- “ Pioneers over C ”
Τα μέλη των Van Der Graaf Generator :
/
- Peter
Hammill : vocals, guitar, piano
/
- David
Jackson : saxophone, flute, vocals
/
- Hugh
Banton : Keyboards, piano, vocals, bass
/
- Nic
Porter : bass
/
- Guy
Evans : drums, percussion
extra
personnel :
/
- Robert
Fripp : guitar on the “Empire in his War Room”
producer
: John Anthony
Τα L.P. των Van Der Graaf Generator μέχρι τότε:
/
1. “ The
Aerosol Grey Machine ”
( September 1969 )
/
2. “ The
Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other ”
( February 1970 )
/
3. “ H to
He, Who am the Only One ”
( December 1970 )
ενδεικτικοί στίχοι από το “Killer”:
And so you live in the bottom of the sea
And you kill all that come near you
But you are very lonely
Because all the other fish fear you
And you crave companionship
And someone to call your own
Because, for the whole of your life
You've been living alone.
ενδεικτικοί στίχοι από το “The Emperor in His War Room”:
Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of
night
Away from you
You think that you can hold the searing, moulten gold between
Your fingers ...
But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes,
Exposing the white of a knuckle ...
Flesh-and-metal forming letters in the mould.
Cradling you gun, after choosing the ones you think should
die-
Lying on the hill ... crawling over the windowsill into your
Living-room
They stare out, glass-eyed aimless heads,
Bodies torn by vultures .
You are the man whose hands are rank with the smell of death.
Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak,
Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace ...
Ah, but it is the only way you know ...
Looking out to sea, a flattened plane of weeds which bear no
living
You crush life in your fist as your heart is kissed by the
lips
Of death
Ghosts betray you, ghosts betray you, in the night they steal
your eye
From its socket ...
And the ball hangs fallen on your cheek.
Complaining tongues are stilled; a thousand mouths are filled
With rusting metal.
Your face a shade of green; somehow you try to speak through
all the
Garbage in your mouth
But it won't come out, and you cannot frame the words
As your stepson
Throws your fame into the flames and you are burned.
Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak,
Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace.
Ah, but it is the only way you know ...
Live by sword and you shall die so.
Ενδεικτικοί στίχοι από το “Lost”:
Dance
in Sand and Sea
So here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone,
I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago
My memory stretches and I am dazed: you know I know
How good the time was and how I laughed
Times have changed, now you're far away, I can't complain:
I had all my chances but they slipped right through my hands
- like so much sand;
I know I'll never dance like I used to
Dance in Frost
I wore my moods like so many different sets of clothes
But the right one was never around;
And as you left I heard my body ring
And my mind began to howl
It was far to late to contemplate the meaning of it all:
You know that I need you, but somehow I don't think
You see my love at all.
μουσική πρόταση: Άγγελος Κωτσάκης
δημοσίευμα για τους VAN DEER GRAAF
στο αγγλικό μουσικό περιοδικό Sounds, 19 Δεκεμβρίου 1970.
The
Mechanics
of
Van Der Graaf
by Royston Eldridge
PETER HAMMILL, vocalist with Van Der Graaf
Generator, has written a historical synopsis of his band in which he talks of
its development as if it were some machine.
The apparatus was invented in 1968 after the chance combination of two units at Manchester University. After preliminary trials on various test beds in that area and a few changes in components, Van Der Graaf was unveiled to the general public in the closing month of that year.
"However, certain bugs inherent in
back-up logistics, led to a withdrawal from public service in the summer of '
69. For a period the individual components were used in different configurations
both individually and in conjunction with others."
The "apparatus" was reassembled
towards the end of last year when Van Der Graaf released an album that received
unstinted praise. And, as anyone knows who has listened to that first album or
has seen them on stage since, Van Der Graaf are by no means mechanical. They
have a controlled looseness coupled with a high technical ability which ranks
among the very best of the bands who've come to prominence during the last two
years.
The "components", as Peter Hammill
called them, have changed during Van Der Graaf's existence. Sax and flute
player Dave Jackson is the most recent addition and the last person to leave
was
Nic
Potter although he appears on some tracks on the group's new album titled "H
to He Who Am The Only One".
"Nic
Potter left in the middle of the album," Peter Hammill explained this
week. "He's a rocker at heart, Nic, and as it got more complex he began to
feel more and more alienated from the music, but not from the people because we
all still see each other.
"He
decided that he wanted to leave but stayed on for a month as we were half way
through the album. On stage now Hugh Banton plays bass pedals on the organ."
Hammill, who is responsible for most of the
group's material, is much happier with the new album which is now available in
the shops.
"I'm happier with it for a number of
reasons. The first one was done within two or three months of us getting together
as a band and although there was empathy, there wasn't the level of empathy
that there is now. And I think this new album comes out as a much more controlled
thing because of the time we had to do it."
Some of the tracks on the new album are the
result of ideas that Hammill had over a year ago. It has taken him some time to
complete them because of the attention he pays to lyrics.
"Lyrics are so important," he
says, "because I believe in the medium as a whole. I believe it is the
most potent we have at our disposal as regards change. I think the changes will
take a long time — I don't believe you can expect changes quickly, I don't
think there'll be many changes in my lifetime — but there's a song on the next
album which concerns saving our children's children's children and that's important.
"
The lyrics of Van Der Graaf's music, and the
inventiveness with which they play it, has meant a steady rather than overnight
rise to popularity for the group. But they are getting through to an
increasingly larger audience both here and on the continent where they are regarded
in high esteem.
The new album should reach more heads
because that is the area that his particular "apparatus" is aiming
at.
Equipment
Hugh Banton: Hammond organ and pedals, Hiwatt amplification
Guy Evans: Hayman drums
Dave Jackson: Yahama tenor, Selmer alto, bugs and devices,
Gemeinhardt flute, Hiwatt amplification.
Peter Hammill: Yamaha FG -300 acoustic, Hohner Pianet.
Royston
Eldridge, “The Mechanics of Van Der Graaf”, Sounds magazine, December 19, 1970, p.6.
προωθητική διαφήμιση
Προωθητική καταχώρηση του album των VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR στο αγγλικό μουσικό περιοδικό Sounds, 19 Δεκεμβρίου 1970.
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