And Close As This

And Close As This
Studio album by
Peter Hammill
Released3 November 1986[1]
Recorded7 August – 15 September 1986
GenreArt rock
Length40:06
LabelVirgin Records
ProducerPeter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
Skin
(1986) 		And Close As This
(1986) 		Spur of the Moment
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Sounds[3]
Tentative Reviews[4]

And Close As This is the 15th studio album by Peter Hammill, released on Virgin Records in 1986. Each track is a song played and sung by Hammill solo at a keyboard, with the keyboard parts played in a single take. Two of the songs use a grand piano as the keyboard instrument; for the others, Hammill plays a MIDI master keyboard, using it to trigger a variety of MIDI sound modules, mainly electric piano and organ sounds. Keith Emerson collaborated as composer for the song "Empire of Delight" but did not play on the album.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 37.
  2. ^ "And Close as This". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Sounds review". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
  4. ^ "Tentative Reviews review". Archived from the original on 8 June 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.