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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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.

Van der Graaf Generator

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