The Circus and the Nightwhale Steve Hackett

• 1 People of the Smoke 04:51
• 2 These Passing Clouds 01:34
• 3 Taking You Down 04:17
• 4 Found and Lost 01:50
• 5 Enter the Ring 03:52
• 6 Get Me Out 04:15
• 7 Ghost Moon and Living Love 06:43
• 8 Circo Inferno 02:30
• 9 Breakout 01:37
• 10 All at Sea 01:46
• 11 Into the Nightwhale 04:06
• 12 Wherever You Are 04:18
• 13 White Dove 03:13
• Total Runtime 44:52

Info for The Circus and the Nightwhale

Legendary rock guitarist Steve Hackett will release his new studio album "The Circus And The Nightwhale" on 16th February 2024 via InsideOut Music. A rite-of-passage concept album with a young character called Travla at the centre of it, "The Circus And The Nightwhale"s 12 tracks have an autobiographical angle for the musician who says about his 30th solo release: "I love this album. It says the things I've been wanting to say for a very long time."

Recorded between tours in 2022 and 2023 at Siren studio in the UK - with guest parts beamed in from Sweden, Austria, the US, Azerbaijan and Denmark, the line-up for "The Circus And The Nightwhale" includes some familiar faces alongside Steve on electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string, mandolin, harmonica, percussion, bass and vocals. Roger King (keyboards, programming and orchestral arrangements), Rob Townsend (sax), Jonas Reingold (bass), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Craig Blundell (drums) and Amanda Lehmann on vocals. Nick D'Virgilio and Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drumstool, engineer extraordinaire Benedict Fenner appears on keyboards and Malik Mansurov is back with the tar. Finally, Steve's brother John Hackett is present once more on flute.

Steve Hackett

Steve Hackett
is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with Genesis as part of their classic line up with Gabriel, Collins, Banks and Rutherford, who produced several of the band’s most acclaimed albums including Selling England by the Pound (a favourite of John Lennon) and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. With Steve's extraordinary versatility in both his electric guitar playing and his composing, he involves influences from many genres, including Jazz, World Music and Blues. He is equally adept in his classical albums that include renditions of pieces by composers from Bach to Satie, his own acoustic guitar compositions that have gained the admiration of many, including Yehudi Menuhin, and ambitious guitar/orchestra albums such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic.

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