Time Vaults
Time Vaults | ||||
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Released | 1982 | |||
Recorded | Crowborough 1971, Ross-on-Wye 1972, Rockfield 1973/1974 and Norton Canon 1975 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 45:18 | |||
Label | Sofa Sound (original cassette release SS3) | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Time Vaults is an album by Van der Graaf Generator. It was originally released in 1982 on cassette only, almost four years after the break-up of Van der Graaf Generator in 1978. Later it was released as a vinyl LP, and in 1992 it was released on CD.
The album contains outtakes and rehearsals from the period 1972-1975, when the band was on hiatus. The recordings "are not studio-quality recordings", according to Peter Hammill.[2] It contains previously unreleased songs taken from rehearsals by the reformed band in 1975, plus a few live numbers from mid-1972, originally intended for a projected album in late 1972.
"Coil Night" features Peter Hammill on bass guitar and David Jackson on piano. The title track "Time Vaults" is a collage consisting of several unreleased pieces mixed with studio chatter. A different version of "Black Room" appeared on Peter Hammill's solo album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night. "Faint and Forsaken" is a combination of the instrumental middle passages of "Forsaken Gardens" and "Faint-Heart and the Sermon", different versions of which appeared on Peter Hammill's solo albums The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage and In Camera respectively.
Track listing
- "The Liquidator" (Hammill) – 5:24
- "Rift Valley" (Hammill, Jackson, Evans) – 4:40
- "Tarzan" (Hammill, Jackson, Evans, Banton) – 2:09
- "Coil Night" (Jackson) – 4:12
- "Time Vaults" (uncredited) – 3:33
- "Drift (I Hope It Won't)" (Banton) – 2:40
- "Roncevaux" (Hammill) – 6:55
- "It All Went Red" (on some pressings incorrectly called "It All Went Up") (Hammill) – 4:07
- "Faint and Forsaken" (Hammill) – 2:45
- "Black Room" (Hammill) – 8:52
Personnel
- Van der Graaf Generator
- Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, piano, bass
- David Jackson – saxophone, piano
- Hugh Banton – organ, bass
- Guy Evans – drums
References
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- Peter Hammill
- Hugh Banton
- Guy Evans
- Chris Judge Smith
- Nick Pearne
- Keith Ellis
- Nic Potter
- David Jackson
- Graham Smith
- Charles Dickie
- The Aerosol Grey Machine (1969)
- The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other (1970)
- H to He, Who Am the Only One (1970)
- Pawn Hearts (1971)
- Godbluff (1975)
- Still Life (1976)
- World Record (1976)
- The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (1977)
- Present (2005)
- Trisector (2008)
- A Grounding in Numbers (2011)
- ALT (2012)
- Do Not Disturb (2016)
- Time Vaults (1982)
- Vital: Van der Graaf Live (1978)
- Maida Vale: The BBC Radio One Sessions (1994)
- Real Time: Royal Festival Hall, London, 06.05.05 (2007)
- Merlin Atmos: Live Performances 2013 (2015)
- After the Flood: At the BBC 1968-1977 (2015)
- Godbluff Live 1975 Charleroi Palais des Expos 27 September 1975 (2003)
- Live at the Paradiso 1. April 2007 (2009)
- Eyewitness (1970)