''Patience'' is the 13th 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 ...

. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band

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. 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, drummer

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and bassist

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(Hammill's former colleagues in VdGG), and guitarist

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(of

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and

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’s band). ''Patience'' reached #15 in the

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.Lazell, Barry (1997) ''Indie Hits 1980-1989'', Cherry Red Books, The members of K Group adopted aliases during their time in the band. Hammill was "K", Evans was "Brain", Ellis was "Fury",Potter was "Mozart". "Patient", "Traintime" and "Comfortable" have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in recent years. "Just Good Friends" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album '' The Love Songs''.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill. #"Labour of Love" – 5:52 #"Film Noir" – 4:16 #"Just Good Friends" – 4:26 #"Jeunesse d'Orée" – 4:45 #"Traintime" – 4:25 #"Now More Than Ever" – 5:36 #"Comfortable?" – 4:54 #"Patient" – 6:14

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 ...

, piano, acoustic and electric guitar *

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, percussion *

–

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

–

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 ...

Additional musicians

* 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 ...

and

panpipes A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

on 1 and 7 *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 3 * David Lord –

Prophet 5 The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith and John Bowen in 1977, who used microprocessors, then a new technology, to create the first polyphonic synthesizer with full ...

on 3

Technical

* David Lord – recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath)

References

External links

Lyrics
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