1993

1. Nadir's Big Chance
2. Golden Promises
3. A Perfect Date
4. The Spirit (A Black Box)
5. Sitting Targets
6. Tapeworm
7. Nobody's Business
8. Crying Wolf

Peter Hammill / The Noise

1. Sci-Finance (revisited)
2. The Habit of the Broken Heart
3. Sign
4. I will Find You
5. Lost and Found
6. Planet Coventry
7. Empress's Clothes
8. Cat's Eye/Yellow Fever (running)
9. Primo on the Parapet
10. Central Hotel

All songs written by Peter Hammill except 8 by Peter Hammill and Graham Smith

Peter Hammill - vocals, guitars
Stuart Gordon - violin, guitar, vocals
Manny Elias - drums
Nic Potter - bass

Produced by Peter Hammill
Recorded at The Grand, London, 29th April 1993
Engineered by David Lord

(released first on the B side of "Refugees" single)

Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto,
poisoned by Set.
She called out to the High God Ra
to kill this evil, that her child may live yet.
Casting aside her present fears
she called out on the Boat of Millions of Years...
Ra came and saw
and stopped the sun until he had cured
the life of the innocent.

Horus the Good lived in the North,
in lands of fertility and beauty
but Set stayed in the hard desert,
to him belonged all drought and perversity.
While he sheds his tears

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

Recorded in 1973, but not released until 1993 on Virgin compilations The Calm (After the Storm).

Spitting drops of rain flow down
and touch my cheek,
intermingling with my tears
as I silently weep.
Then the fatality of life
presses close and probes in my eyes....
And I'm cold and hungry tonight.

These great black walls of brickwork
bow low and oppress my mind
like the words of people
I thought I'd left far behind;
the presence of the words and walls
is too close and it's far too clear
as the rain keeps washing through my tears,

01. Shell
02. Not For Keith
03. Rain 3am
04. Just Good Friends
05. (on Tuesdays she used to do) Yoga
06. Shingle Song

Analogue Experiments 1980 - 1983

1. A Ritual Mask
2. Critical Mass
3. The Moebius Loop
4. An Endless breath
5. In Slow Time
6. My Pulse
7. The Bells! The Bells!

Peter Hammill - guitar, keyboards, vocals

Featuring music primarily created for film and dance works, Loops & Reels was the first of Peter Hammill's Sonix series and contained music recorded in a spirit of experimentation, outside the normal world of the song.

The album includes A Ritual Mask, Peter's astonishing contribution to the first, fund-raising, WOMAD record and the 16 minute atmospheric epic, My Pulse.