News from VdGG ("Trisector") & Peter Hammill

In late march 2008 well be available the new VDGG album called "Trisector"!!!

the new album of Van der Graaf Generator will be out at the end of march. it will be named "Trisector" and will contain 9 tracks. the line-up will be the current trio line-up.
Hammill also announced that there will be a DVD of the Markthalle Hamburg concert of the K-group from the early 80s out soon; that concert was originally broadcast on German TV for the "Rockpalast" program


Edited by BaldJean - December 31 2007 at 16:44

It's because Peter Hammill can trisect any angle using only a straight-edge and compass.

(Note to those less nerdy than me: it has been proven impossible to trisect an arbitrary angle using compass and straightedge.  However, it has not been proven that Peter Hammill couldn't do it.)


Edited by rileydog22 - December 31 2007 at 22:43

i hope that it will be a "dark" album...and better than PH solo Singularity...

Great news! I can't hear it!

Equality 7-2521 wrote: rileydog22 wrote: It's because Peter Hammill can trisect any angle using only a straight-edge and compass. (Note to those less nerdy than me: it has been proven impossible to trisect an arbitrary angle using compass and straightedge.  However, it has not been proven that Peter Hammill couldn't do it.)   You should be careful to say a unmakered straight-edge because with a compass and a straight-edge you could contruct a straight-edge with two marks and then with this new tool you'd be able to trisect an arbitrary angle.

I figured that those who knew what I was talking about would assume that I was referring to an unmarked straight-edge, as that is the general standard for such constructions.  But yes, I suppose that those OTHER than Peter Hammill would be able to trisect an angle if allowed to mark their straightedges. 

You're weird, Stonie...

But woohoo, a new album and a London gig!

...if only they would come to america

Phil Smart emailed me with the news that he posted the press release for the new VdGG album on his website:   Van der Graaf Generator's new album Trisector will be released on Monday 17th March 2008...
"There are nine pieces on the album, one of them instrumental. Unusually for VdGG, only one of these is more than ten minutes long - indeed, five come in at under five minutes. There are, of course, passages of great complexity but there's also a confidence about the group at the moment which allows them to leave some simple things as they are. These are songs which dictate their own terms, often with a healthy dose of gallows humour, always with a measure of invention.
"It's far from an over-manicured record. For the most part it is the sound of the three musicians both stretching and enjoying themselves in locked-on sympathetic playing. As ever, it doesn't sound like anyone else - even past versions of VdGG. "But as ever, there isn't another group quite like Van der Graaf Generator."

The song-length talk, here and in PH's latest newsletter, strikes me as a little misplaced - surely a track over ten minutes will be the longest original VDGG/VDG composition since Meurglys III? The songs on Present averaged about six, and there were only six of them!

Very much looking forward, anyway.