In Camera

by Peter Hammill

In Camera cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1974
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:36
  • Community rating: 4.23/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Playing almost all the instruments himself, including heavily manipulated ARP synthesizers, the Van der Graaf Generator frontman created an overwhelmingly claustrophobic, deeply personal solo record. 'In Camera' is an incredibly dark, fiercely avant-garde progressive rock nightmare, combining intensely poetic, highly philosophical existential dread with wonderfully complex, passionately harrowing vocal performances.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, progressive, existential, complex, experimental, theatrical, dissonant, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Ferret And Featherbird (3:42)
  2. (No More) The Sub Mariner (5:46)
  3. Tapeworm (4:19)
  4. Again (3:36)
  5. Faint Heart And The Sermom (6:42)
  6. The Comet, The Course, The Tail (6:02)
  7. Gog Magog (In Bromine Chambers) (17:27)

Credits

  • Peter Hammill - primary artist, written-by, arranged by, recorded by, producer [produced by], performer, composed by
  • Guy Evans - drums
  • David Hentschel - engineer [trident], programmed by [arp], other [sound wizardry]
  • George Peckham - lacquer cut by
  • Gordian Troeller - management [gordianisation], photography by [inner photography]
  • Mike Van Der Vord - photography by [outer photography]
  • Paul Whitehead - cymbal, drum, cello, percussion
  • Judge Smith - performer [liguaphone, minikit], percussion, voice [choral]

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