Present

Present is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released in 2005. It was the band's first studio album since The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome in 1977, and the first with the 'classic' line-up since World Record in 1976. The Charisma Records label was re-activated for its release, as well as a re-issue series of Van der Graaf Generator's catalogue and Peter Hammill's solo releases from 1972 to 1986. For many years the band's lead singer and principal songwriter Peter Hammill had rejected the idea of a VdGG re-union, but in 2004, work began on an official re-union album. Present was the result. It consists of one disc of compositions, and one disc of studio improvisations. The band had always improvised in the studio throughout their history, but never before, had any of these improvisations been officially released. In 2005, the band embarked on a successful re-union tour. Only two songs from Present were played on the tour, "Every Bloody Emperor" and "Nutter Alert". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)