This

1. Frozen in Place (fragment)
2. Unrehearsed
3. Stupid
4. Since the kids
5. Nightman
6. Fallen (the City of Night)
7. Unready (fragment)
8. Always is Next
9. Unsteady (fragment)
10. The Light Continent

Recorded and mixed at Terra Incognita, Bath Jan-July 1998 (24-track ADAT)
Produced and engineered by PH.

Stuart Gordon - violin & viola (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Manny Elias - drums, percussion (2, 3, 6, 8)
David Jackson - sax and flute (2, 3, 5, 8, 10)
otherwise all PH

Design and Art Direction by Paul Ridout

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When this album was recorded and first came out I was very much taken by the synchronicity of numbers: the fortieth album, in my fiftieth year and so on. I suppose it was inevitable that it should be so - especially since at the outset of things (or at least the point at which the idea occurred that I *might* be doing this for a considerable length of time) I had thought that an aim of making fifty albums over a career might be a decent target. At the distance of a few years, this seems something of an albatross to hang around the CD's neck, implying a degree of consciousness and significance about its making which is some way at odds with the actual content.

In truth, I made this record much like all the others, being dragged along, up, down and into each song by the songs themselves. Disparate a collection as it may be, it seems to me now that these pieces add up to a coherently consistent whole.

The personnel on the album are the members of the phQuartet, but here their contributions are much more as individuals than was the case on "X my heart"; this is not in any sense a "band" disc. Since I'd taken it as my aim to make a set of songs which covered the majority of the bases which comprise my style (if such a thing exists) it was inevitable that the unifying factors would be song and voice rather than instrumentation.

From Peter Hammill's notes on the album

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