''Out of Water'' is the 17th studio album by

Peter Hammill Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English musician and recording artist. He was a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer/songwriter, he also plays guitar and piano and ...

, originally released on

Enigma Records Enigma Records (also known as Enigma Entertainment Corporation) was a popular rock and alternative American record label in the 1980s. History Enigma Records launched as a division of Greenworld Distribution, an independent music importer/dis ...

in 1990 and subsequently re-released on Hammill's own Fie! label. Hammill himself considers this album to be a turning point from his mid-eighties style. Two of the performers are credited by the nicknames they were given when they were part of Hammill's K Group in the 1980s: John Ellis (who also painted the picture on the cover) as "Fury" and

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as "Mozart". The song "A Way Out" is believed to be about the suicide of Hammill's brother. "Our Oyster" references the 1989 Tiananmen square massacare.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill. #"Evidently Goldfish" – 5:02 #"Not the Man" – 4:24 #"No Moon in the Water" – 4:36 #"Our Oyster" – 5:33 #"Something about Ysabel's Dance" – 5:32 #"Green Fingers" – 4:35 #"On the Surface" – 8:14 #"A Way Out" – 7:17

Personnel

*Peter Hammill –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

*Stuart Gordon –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

on 5 * John Ellis –

on 1, 4, and 7 * David Jackson –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

on 3 and 6 *

– bass on 3 and 6

Technical

*Peter Hammill - recording engineer, mixing (Sofa Sound/Terra Incognita, Bath) * David Lord - recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath) *John Ellis - cover drawing "Thanks to Gail, Norma and Louise; David, Eda and Gaynor; Neil Perry; Coach; Paul Ridout; Hilary, Holly, Beatrice and Phoebe, Mozart, Jackson, SG and Fury."

References

External links

Peter Hammill's notes on the album
{{DEFAULTSORT:Out of Water Peter Hammill albums 1990 albums Enigma Records albums