STILL LIFE

Why are we here for? What's the purpose of our passage on earth? All those questions remaining a preoccupation in Hamill's lyrics and again, it is deep and dark. Listening to still life songs, could bring the listening into a profound sense of human irony, no questions on why the punk scene of the 70s were also attracted by VDGG. Again, Hamill's does not only sing a song within an easy musical structure, no real chorus,as a matter of fact, i always have the feeling that he is in front of the music singing us deep text, a bit like, if he was reading us 5 long letters on how he is seeing the world.

Musically, still life is similar to godbluff (another masterpiece) in a sense that the musical arrangements always seem to serve the extraordinary voice of hamill. never to loud, never taking too much place,always this little jazzy drum, the perfect sax, the nice piano but always in perfect harmony with the meaning of the song and the atmosphere created. I often heard people not too keen with prog rock, mentionned that it is too full, too many instruments, too many solos or change of beat, too much sound (ften referring to yes, KC or other symphonic prog), with still life, you dont have that, you have a man singing alone with few organs notes, nice riffs with few chords and it seems to me that each note is fully meaningfull to become the vehicule of the dark and mad message of that magnificient unique voice.