Fool's Mate
His first solo album: twelve songs written between 1967 and 1971, with Robert Fripp on guitar.
Peter Hammill, 1971
The twelve tracks are "Imperial Zeppelin" and "Viking" (both co-written with Chris Judge Smith), "Candle", "Happy", "Solitude", "Vision", "Re-Awakening", "Sunshine", "Child", "Summer Song in the Autumn", "The Birds" and "I Once Wrote Some Poems". Paul Whitehead painted the cover. A 2005 reissue added five demos.
Hammill told Louder it was obviously not remotely Van der Graaf territory. Chart performance was not found, and a Melody Maker line calling it one of the albums of the year is uncited.
Track listing
- Imperial Zeppelin3:36
- Candle4:16
- Happy2:36
- Solitude4:56
- Vision3:13
- Re-Awakening4:01
- Sunshine3:54
- Child4:20
- Summer Song in the Autumn2:14
- Viking4:41
- The Birds3:35
- I Once Wrote Some Poems2:43
More from Peter Hammill
Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night (1973), In Camera (1974), The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage (1974), Nadir's Big Chance (1975), Over (1977), Skeletons Of Songs (1978), The Future Now (1978), pH7 (1979), A Black Box (1980), Sitting Targets (1981), Enter K (1982), Patience (1983), Loops And Reels (1983), Naked Songs, Out Of My Book (1985), Skin (1986), And Close As This (1986), In A Foreign Town (1988), Out Of Water (1990), The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1991), Fireships (1992), Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993), The Noise (1993), Roaring Forties (1994), X My Heart (1996), Sonix (Hybrid Experiments 1994-1996) (1996), Everyone You Hold (1997), This (1998), Typical (1999), None Of The Above (2000), What, Now? (2001), Clutch (2002), Incoherence (2004), Singularity (2006), Thin Air (2009), In The Passionskirche (Berlin MCMXCII) (2009), Consequences (2012), ...All That Might Have Been... (2014), From The Trees (2017), In Translation (2021), Tears In Time (2026)
Sources
- Fool's Mate (album), Wikipedia
- Peter Hammill: inside the mind of prog's renaissance man, Louder