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1973 studio album by Peter Hammill
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
Studio album by
Peter Hammill
Released
4 May 1973
Recorded
February and March 1973[1]
Studio
Sofa Sound, Sussex
Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire
Trident Studios, London
Genre
Progressive rock, psychedelic rock
Length
50:21
Label
Charisma
Producer
John Anthony
Peter Hammill chronology
Fool's Mate (1971)
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1973)
The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
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Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night is the second solo album by British singer-songwriter Peter Hammill. It followed in the aftermath of the breakup of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator, and (as with many of Hammill's solo albums from this period) other ex-members of Van der Graaf Generator perform on the album.
The album was produced by John Anthony at Rockfield Studios, Wales, for the first time using pre-recorded parts done by Peter Hammill in his home studio in Worth. For final mixing the then much better equipped Trident Studios were used. The album was released in May 1973 on Charisma Records.
Some of the songs ("German Overalls" and "In the End") relate to Van der Graaf Generator's decision to split, following an exhausting, demoralising and poverty-stricken experience of being a touring rock band.[3] "German Overalls" name-checks bandmates Hugh Banton and David Jackson.
Hammill has continued to perform "Easy to Slip Away" in concert to the present day. The song relates to him losing touch with student housemates Mike and actress Susan Penhaligon (who were also namechecked in the Van der Graaf Generator song "Refugees").
The complex and atmospheric "(In the) Black Room/The Tower" was originally planned for inclusion on Van der Graaf Generator's album following Pawn Hearts, an album that because of the band's split never came to be.[4] But the song was already performed on stage by Van der Graaf Generator in 1972, and a recording of it from July 1972 rehearsals (albeit in bad audio quality) is included on the compilation Time Vaults. The album version from Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night features Van der Graaf Generator's ex-members Banton, Jackson and Evans. Later, when the band reformed in 1975 and 1976, "(In the) Black Room" was again part of their live sets, and also during their 2005 reunion.
^"Photographic image of album cover" (JPG). Vandergraafgenerator.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^Album review, AllMusic
^Gallo, Armando. ""Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night" (review)". Vandergraafgenerator.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^Christopulos, J., and Smart, P.: "Van der Graaf Generator – The Book", page 174. Phil and Jim publishers, 2005. ISBN 0-9551337-0-X
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