Hugh Banton

1. Lemmings
2. A Place To Survive
3. Lifetime
4. In The) Black Room
5. Every Bloody Emperor
6. All That Before

THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Johann Sebastian Bach Hugh Banton, organ

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According to legend J.S. Bach wrote The Goldberg Variations in 1740 as a commission for Count Keyserlingk, former Russian envoy to the court of Saxony.

Originally written for two-manual harpsichord, the work very naturally transposes to the organ, and the tonal possibilities of this multi-keyboard instrument add a clarity to the two-part and three-part counterpoint not always evident in more familiar renditions.

The work starts and ends with an Aria, to which the 30 variations are linked by bass-line and harmony alone - in effect thirty very individual pieces.
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THE PLANETS Gustav Holst Hugh Banton, organ

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1. A Kick To Kill The Kiss
2. I Will Find You
3. Accidents
4. His Best Girl
5. Sharply Unclear
6. Patient
7. Planet Conventry
8. A Ritual Mask
9. The Noise
10. The Gift Of Fire
11. Traintime
12. Gaia
13. Your Tall Ship

All voices and instruments by Peter Hammill except:
Drums/Percussion: Manny Elias (2,5,8,9)
Violin: Stuart Gordon (3,5)
Organ: Hugh Banton (2,7)
Keyboards: David Lord (1)
Soprano Vox: Holly & Beatrice Hammill (5)

All songs by Peter Hammill except
Phosphorescence - Cosentino/Hammill
Personality - Peter Hammill/Holly Hammill

1. Afterwards
2. Necromancer
3. Refugees
4. The Boat of Millions of Years
5. Lemmings (including Cog)
6. W
7. Arrow
8. La Rossa
9. Ship of Fools
10. Medley (Parts of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" and "The Sleepwalkers")

All songs written by Peter Hammill

Recorded at Rockfield (1, 3)
Ross-on-Wye (6, 10)
Norton Canon (2, 4, 9)
Crowborough ( 8) between 1971 and 1975.
© 1993 Virgin Records Ltd

Release Notes

1. The Hurlyburly
2. Interference Patterns
3. The Final Reel
4. Lifetime
5. Drop Dead
7. All That Before

4 disc box set including rare live & session material released by Virgin Records in 2000

CD One "Bless The Baby Born Today"
1. People You Were Going To (BBC Top Gear 18/11/68)
2. Afterwards (BBC Top Gear 18/11/68)
3. Necromancer (BBC Top Gear 18/11/68)
4. Refugees (BBC Peel Session 14/12/71)
5. Darkness (11/11) (BBC Top Gear 27/01/70)
6. After The Flood (BBC Top Gear 27/01/70)

The BBC Radio One Sessions

1. Darkness (The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other)
2. Man-Erg (Pawn Hearts)
3. Scorched Earth (Godbluff)
4. Sleepwalkers (Godbluff)
5. Still Life (Still Life)
6. La Rossa (Still Life)
7. When She Comes (World Record)
8. Masks (World Record)

Peter Hammill - vocals, guitars, keyboards
Guy Evans - drums
Hugh Banton - organ, bass pedals and guitar
David Jackson - saxes, flutes

Produced by John Muir (1,2) for "Sounds of Seventies" and by Tony Wilson (3-8) for the "John Peel Show"

I read the news in a paper:
no flowers, please, donations to charity
like the N.S.P.C.V.d.G.G. -
yeh, send the money
to Guy and Hugh and David and me.

It's a joke,
there is no hope left,
oh, whoever might disagree.

Tell me juicy rumours,
dish me the dirt,
go on and rip the back right off my shirt.

Tell me how I hate Hugh Banton,
tell us that the bank account is zero

1. The Liquidator
2. Rift Valley (Hammil, Jackson, Evans)
3. Tarzan (Hammil, Jackson, Evans, Banton)
4. Coil Night
5. Time Vaults (miscellaneous)
6. Drift (Banton)
7. Roncevaux
8. It All Went Red
9. Faint and Forsaken
10. Black Room

A collection of unreleased recordings from the 1971-1975:
"Anti-compilation" - the 'lost' VdGG period between Pawn Hearts and Godbluff., according to http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk

All lyrics by Peter Hammill
All songs written by Peter Hammill, except where indicated

Peter Hammill - vocals, guitars, keyboards
Guy Evans - drums