Time Vaults

Time Vaults
Demo album by Van der Graaf Generator
Released	1982
Recorded	Crowborough 1971, Ross-on-Wye 1972, Rockfield 1973/1974 and Norton Canon 1975
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	45:18
Label	Sofa Sound (original cassette release SS3)
Van der Graaf Generator chronology
Vital (1978) Time Vaults (1982) Maida Vale (1994)

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Allmusic	[1]

Time Vaults is an album by Van der Graaf Generator. It was originally released in 1982 on cassette only, almost four years after the break-up of Van der Graaf Generator in 1978. Later it was released as a vinyl LP, and in 1992 it was released on CD.

The album contains outtakes and rehearsals from the period 1972-1975, when the band was on hiatus. The recordings "are not studio-quality recordings", according to Peter Hammill.[2] It contains previously unreleased songs taken from rehearsals by the reformed band in 1975, plus a few live numbers from mid-1972, originally intended for a projected album in late 1972.

"Coil Night" features Peter Hammill on bass guitar and David Jackson on piano. The title track "Time Vaults" is a collage consisting of several unreleased pieces mixed with studio chatter. A different version of "Black Room" appeared on Peter Hammill's solo album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night. "Faint and Forsaken" is a combination of the instrumental middle passages of "Forsaken Gardens" and "Faint-Heart and the Sermon", different versions of which appeared on Peter Hammill's solo albums The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage and In Camera respectively.

Track listing

1. "The Liquidator" (Hammill) – 5:24
2. "Rift Valley" (Hammill, Jackson, Evans) – 4:40
3. "Tarzan" (Hammill, Jackson, Evans, Banton) – 2:09
4. "Coil Night" (Jackson) – 4:12
5. "Time Vaults" (uncredited) – 3:33
6. "Drift (I Hope It Won't)" (Banton) – 2:40
7. "Roncevaux" (Hammill) – 6:55
8. "It All Went Red" (on some pressings incorrectly called "It All Went Up") (Hammill) – 4:07
9. "Faint and Forsaken" (Hammill) – 2:45
10. "Black Room" (Hammill) – 8:52

Personnel

Van der Graaf Generator

• Peter Hammill – vocals, guitar, piano, bass
• David Jackson – saxophone, piano
• Hugh Banton – organ, bass
• Guy Evans – drums

References

1. Prato, Greg (2011). "Time Vaults - Van der Graaf Generator | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
2. Album notes by Peter Hammill for "Time Vaults", cd (1992). Thunderbolt.