Peter Hammill
English singer‐songwriter
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Peter Hammill's World Instruments
"Well, all these are extracts rather than being finished pieces in themselves. Obviously I've tried to edit them down to being reasonably cohesive. Ritual Mask, I suppose, is quite funny in terms of cultural imperialism. I felt very ambivalent really, and I suppose that comes out in the song. But I did try to be as varied as possible in the instrumentation. The basic drum on it - the one that sounds absolutely massive - is actually a tiny Chinese drum. The massiveness is in fact courtesy of David Lord (engineer for Peter Gabriel amongst others) and the wonderful AMS. So that was the basic track, and I did two or three of those just to get a bit of range in them. Then the bottom end is actually a bodhran - the Irish hand-held drum. So I had these two - the Chinese and the Irish - and it emerged as something a little more African. So I was drawn towards that tribal thing really. When I started I was using that four-inch diameter drum and the rhythm was there but the total sound wasn't. The main melodic instrument on it is the kora which is Ghambian."
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The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986
Peter Hammill · 2025
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Peter Hammill & Gary Lucas & Gary Lucas · 2014
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...All That Might Have Been...
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Peter Hammill · 2007
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The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
Peter Hammill · 1974
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