Spur of the Moment (album)

Spur of the Moment is an album of experimental music by Peter Hammill and Guy Evans, originally released as cassette tape on the Red Hot label. A remastered version was released on CD on the DaTE label in February 1988^[3] (not in 1991, as Sofa Sound suggests). The album is currently out of print.^[4]

Hammill plays grand piano, guitar and keyboards driving samplers and synthesizers, and Evans plays acoustic and electronic drumkits. The music is instrumental and entirely improvised.^[5] According to the booklet, instruments and fundamental note-patterns were decided upon prior to performing a piece, but no further structure was arranged in advance.^[5]

A number of songs from Spur of the Moment was played live in a number of concerts by Hammill and Evans in 1997. A recording of one of these concerts was released as The Union Chapel Concert.

Album cover

The album cover shows parchment with lines of red and green paint, and in some places a "2" or "two" is discernable.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill and Guy Evans, except where noted.

"Sweating it Out"
"Surprise"
"Little Did He Know"
"Without a Glitch"
"Anatol's Proposal"
"You Think Not?"
"Multiman"
"Deprogramming Archie" (Hammill, Evans, Ridout)
"Always So Polite"
"An Imagined Brother"
"Bounced"
"Roger and Out" (Hammill, Evans, Ridout)

In the booklet of the CD "Surprise" and "Little did he know" appear as two different titles, but on the CD itself track 2 is called "Surprise / Little did he know" (and consequently the total number of tracks is 11).^[5]

The original cassette had songs 1–6 on side A, and songs 7–12 on side B.^[3]

Personnel

Peter Hammill – grand piano, guitar and keyboards driving samplers and synthesizers, and engineer
Guy Evans – acoustic and electronic drumkits
Paul Ridout – programming, sequencing, manipulation, and engineer

Both players regularly play each other's instruments. As the booklet states: "In much of this music the straight edges of the conventional instrument/instrumentalist picture become blurred; often the overall effect is of one instrument being played by four hands in some strange modern variant on the traditional piano duet."^[5]

References

↑ "This recordings are official recordings of Peter Hammill, Van Der Graaf Generator and other (..)". vapp.de/ph. Retrieved: 12 August 2011.
↑ Option Magazine review
1 2 "Peter Hammill & Guy Evans – Spur Of The Moment (Cassette, Album) on Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved: 12 August 2011.
↑ "Peter Hammill Miscellaneous Recordings". sofasound.com. Retrieved: 12 August 2011.
1 2 3 4 Album notes in the booklet of Spur of the Moment (1988). DaTE.

Peter Hammill

Studio albums	Fool's Mate Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage In Camera Nadir's Big Chance Over The Future Now pH7 A Black Box Sitting Targets Enter K Loops and Reels Patience Skin And Close As This Spur of the Moment In a Foreign Town Out of Water The Fall of the House of Usher Fireships The Noise Roaring Forties X My Heart Sonix Everyone You Hold This The Appointed Hour None of the Above What, Now? Unsung Clutch Incoherence Singularity Thin Air Consequences Other World All That Might Have Been

Live albums	The Margin Room Temperature There Goes The Daylight The Peel Sessions The Union Chapel Concert Typical The Margin + Veracious Pno Gtr Vox Pno Gtr Vox Box

Singles	Red Shift Birthday Special Crying Wolf If I Could The Polaroid My Experience Paradox Drive Film Noir Just Good Friends Painting By Numbers

Live Video	In The Passionskirche

Compilation albums	Vision The Love Songs The Essential Collection A Fix On The Mix The Storm (Before The Calm) The Calm (After The Storm) Offensichtlich Goldfisch After The Show Past Go (Collected) The Thin Man Sings Ballads

Collaborators	Judge Smith David Jackson Guy Evans John Ellis Nic Potter Roger Eno Stuart Gordon

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