Biography
Roger Eno and Peter Hammil's The Appointed Hour is as unique a collaboration as one will find. The history behind this project lies in the backgrounds of the musicians themselves. Roger Eno, brother to electronica pioneer and producer Brian Eno, and Peter Hammill, whose lush prog rock history backdates from the early '70s, designated a specific date and time (April 1, 1999 between 1 and 2:00) for recording in separate studios for exactly one hour. The finished works of both men were mixed by Hammill with some "art glue," as he states in the liner notes, to come up with what Eno cites as "a thing built of chance, of different elements tied together, with no artifice and little plan, with no concrete idea, two people figuring it out..."
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