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Patience (Peter Hammill album)

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Patience
Studio album by
Released19 August 1983[1]
RecordedDecember 1982
StudioCrescent Studios, Bath
GenreArt rock
Length40:28
LabelNaive
ProducerPeter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
Loops and Reels
(1983)
Patience
(1983)
The Love Songs
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Patience is the 13th studio album by Peter Hammill. It was released in August 1983 on Naive Records, a label founded by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator. It was remastered in 1991 and released on Fie! Records. It was the second album to feature the collective known as the “K Group” (the first was Enter K) — Hammill, drummer Guy Evans and bassist Nic Potter (Hammill's former colleagues in VdGG), and guitarist John Ellis (of The Vibrators and Peter Gabriel’s band).

Patience reached #15 in the UK Indie Chart.[3]

The members of K Group adopted aliases during their time in the band. Hammill was known as "K", Evans was known as "Brain", Ellis was known as "Fury" and Potter was known as "Mozart".

"Patient", "Traintime" and "Comfortable" have all been played regularly by Hammill in live performance in later years.

"Just Good Friends" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

Track listing

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All songs written by Peter Hammill.

  1. "Labour of Love" – 5:52
  2. "Film Noir" – 4:16
  3. "Just Good Friends" – 4:26
  4. "Jeunesse d'Orée" – 4:45
  5. "Traintime" – 4:25
  6. "Now More Than Ever" – 5:36
  7. "Comfortable?" – 4:54
  8. "Patient" – 6:14

Personnel

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Additional musicians

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Technical

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  • David Lord – recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath)

References

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  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 31.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4
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  • Lyrics on Hammill's Sofa Sound website