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Track List
01) Modern
02) Wilhelmina
03) The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)
04) Forsaken Gardens
05) Red Shift
06) Rubicon
07) A Louse Is Not a Home
08) The Lie (live)
09) Rubicon (live)
10) Red Shift (live)
01) Modern
02) Wilhelmina
03) The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)
04) Forsaken Gardens
05) Red Shift
06) Rubicon
07) A Louse Is Not a Home
08) The Lie (live)
09) Rubicon (live)
10) Red Shift (live)
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First Released
1974
Progressive Rock
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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage is the third album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released on Charisma Records in 1974, during a hiatus in the activities of Hammill's progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. However, like many of Hammill's "solo" albums of this period, all the members of Van der Graaf Generator perform on the recording, blurring the distinction between solo and group work.
The enigmatic cover was designed by Bettina Hohls, ex-member of the psychedelic German rock band Ash Ra Tempel. Bettina Hohls had also contributed to the cover of Hammill's earlier album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night.
The lengthy "A Louse is not a Home" is a full blown prog rock epic featuring melodramatic lyrics about (among other things) the nature of identity. It was originally written for Van der Graaf Generator's album following Pawn Hearts, an album that because of the band's split never came to be. It features all of Van der Graaf Generator's ex-members. "The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)" partly alludes to the Ecstasy of St Theresa by Bernini. "Red Shift" features Spirit guitarist Randy California on lead guitar. Hammill has often performed the song "Modern" in concert.
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The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage continues along this trajectory. Here we can thrill again to the baroque entertainment of "Forbidden Gardens", the great wall of sound that is "Modern" and the touching message of "Wilhelmina".
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The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage is the third album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It was released on Charisma Records in 1974, during a hiatus in the activities of Hammill's progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. However, like many of Hammill's "solo" albums of this period, all the members of Van der Graaf Generator perform on the recording, blurring the distinction between solo and group work.
The enigmatic cover was designed by Bettina Hohls, ex-member of the psychedelic German rock band Ash Ra Tempel. Bettina Hohls had also contributed to the cover of Hammill's earlier album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night.
The lengthy "A Louse is not a Home" is a full blown prog rock epic featuring melodramatic lyrics about (among other things) the nature of identity. It was originally written for Van der Graaf Generator's album following Pawn Hearts, an album that because of the band's split never came to be. It features all of Van der Graaf Generator's ex-members. "The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)" partly alludes to the Ecstasy of St Theresa by Bernini. "Red Shift" features Spirit guitarist Randy California on lead guitar. Hammill has often performed the song "Modern" in concert.
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The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage continues along this trajectory. Here we can thrill again to the baroque entertainment of "Forbidden Gardens", the great wall of sound that is "Modern" and the touching message of "Wilhelmina".
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