Enter k

1982 studio album by Peter Hammill
Enter k
Studio album by
Peter Hammill
ReleasedOctober 1982
Recorded1982
StudioSofa Sound, Wiltshire; Crescent Studios, Bath
GenreArt rock
LabelNaive Records
ProducerPeter Hammill
Peter Hammill chronology
Sitting Targets
(1981) 		Enter k
(1982) 		Loops and Reels
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Enter k is the eleventh studio album by Peter Hammill, originally released on the Naive Records label in October 1982. The label was owned and operated by Gordian Troeller, the former manager of Hammill's band Van der Graaf Generator that had found success managing Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (which Hammill has said "must have been a blessed relief after the VdGG years"[2]). Hammill subsequently reissued the album on his own Fie! label.

The album was Hammill's first studio album to be recorded with the K Group, a band that he had formed in 1981 to tour material from his earlier albums A Black Box and Sitting Targets. Each member of the band adopted an alias: Hammill was K, John Ellis was Fury, Nic Potter was Mozart and Guy Evans was Brain. The K Group also backed Hammill during his performance on a 1981 broadcast of Rockpalast,[3] as well as Hammill's first live album, The Margin.

Enter k reached #21 in the UK Indie Chart.[4]

"Don't Tell Me" was re-worked for Hammill's 1984 album The Love Songs.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Hammill.

  1. "Paradox Drive"
  2. "The Unconscious Life"
  3. "Accidents"
  4. "The Great Experiment"
  5. "Don't Tell Me"
  6. "She Wraps It Up"
  7. "Happy Hour"

The Fie! reissue contained an extra track:

  2. "Seven Wonders"

Personnel

k Group

with:

  • David Jackson - saxophone on "The Unconscious Life" and "Don't Tell Me"

Technical

  • Peter Hammill - recording engineer (Sofa Sound, Wiltshire)
  • David Lord - recording engineer, mixing (Crescent Studios, Bath)
  • Steve Byrne, Valerie Hawthorn - artwork
  • Jo Swan - photography

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Hammill, Peter. "Enter k". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  3. ^ "PETER HAMMILL - Markthalle Hamburg 26.11.1981". Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  4. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4
  • Peter Hammill's notes on the album
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Studio albums
Live albums
  • The Margin (1985)
  • Room Temperature (1990)
  • There Goes the Daylight (1993)
  • The Peel Sessions (1995)
  • The Union Chapel Concert (1997)
  • Typical (1999)
  • The Margin + (2002)
  • Veracious (2006)
  • Pno Gtr Vox (2011)
  • Pno Gtr Vox Box (2012)
  • Peter Hammill & The K Group Live at Rockpalast 26/11/81 (2016)
  • X/Ten (2018)
  • Not Yet Not Now (2019)
Singles
  • "Red Shift" (1973)
  • "Birthday Special" (1975)
  • "Crying Wolf" (1977)
  • "If I Could" (1978)
  • "The Polaroid" (1979)
  • "My Experience" (1981)
  • "Paradox Drive" (1982)
  • "Film Noir" (1983)
  • "Just Good Friends" (1985)
  • "Painting by Numbers" (1986)
  • A Fix on the Mix (1992) ‎(CD, EP)
Live videos
  • In the Passionskirche (1992)
  • Live at Rockpalast - Hamburg 1981 (2016)
Compilation albums
  • Vision (1978)
  • The Love Songs (1984)
  • The Essential Collection (1986)
  • The Storm (Before the Calm) (1993)
  • The Calm (After the Storm) (1993)
  • Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993)
  • After the Show - A Collection (1996)
  • Past Go: Collected (1996)
  • The Thin Man Sings Ballads (2002)
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