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The new album will be the first Hackett concept album since his 1975 solo debut Voyage Of The Acolyte, which followed Genesis‘s 1974 grand double concept affair The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
“The Circus And The Nightwhale is an album with a difference,” states Hackett. “This time it is a story, based both literally and metaphorically on my life… It’s both faction and fiction, beginning in a gritty world of harsh reality, spinning off into a colourful and dark, weird metaphorical universe of wonder turned to terror, with an ultimately beautiful resolve.
The Circus And The Nightwhale was recorded at the UK’s Siren Studios in between tours in 2022 and 2023. The album features Hackett’s touring band as well as a raft of guests including Amanda Lehmann and Big Big Train‘s Nick D’Virgilio, Hugo Degenhardt return as guests on the drumstool, Benedict Fenner features on keyboards and Malik Mansurov on tar, with Hackett’s brother John once more on flute.
The Circus And The Nightwhale will be available on several different formats, including a limited edition CD and Blu-ray mediabook (including 5.1 Surround Sound and 24-bit high resolution stereo mixes), standard CD jewelcase, gatefold 180g vinyl LP and as digital album. All feature a cover painting by Denise Marsh.
Pre-orders for the album will open soon.
Steve Hackett: The Circus And The Nightwhale
1. People Of The Smoke
2. These Passing Clouds
3. Taking You Down
4. Found And Lost
5. Enter The Ring
6. Get Me Out!
7. Ghost Moon and Living Love
8. Circo Inferno
9. Breakout
10. All At Sea
11. Into The Nightwhale
12. Wherever You Are
13. White Dove
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- Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £8.00, $10.00, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 15:08)on May 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm
STEVE HACKETT Spectral Mornings (80s UK issue of the 1979 8-track vinyl LP on the blue Charisma 'Madhatter' label, including the singles Every Day and Clocks. The picture sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl displays some cosmetic cloudingwhich has no real impact on play CDS4017)
- Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 10:11)on May 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm
STEVE HACKETT Please Don't Touch (1978 UK first press 10-track LP on the pink small 'madhatter' label, complete with the illustrated lyric inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows a little wear, whilst the vinyl has minor signs of play CDS4012)
- Steve Hackett - Cell 151 - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.00, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 20-Dec-2023 16:28)on May 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm
STEVE HACKETT Cell 151 (1983 UK 7" vinyl single, also featuring Time Lapse At Milton Keynes, picture sleeve with 1983 tour dates on the back CELL1)
- Steve Hackett - Sentimental Institution - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 22-Dec-2023 09:28)on May 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm
STEVE HACKETT Sentimental Institution (1980 UK 7" vinyl single, also includes The Toast, picture sleeve CB368)
- Steve Hackett - The Show - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $10.00, €9.36 (New Item) (arrived 22-Dec-2023 09:31)on May 1, 2024 at 9:08 pm
STEVE HACKETT The Show (1980 UK 7" single, also featuring Hercules Unchained, picture sleeve. The cover shows just a spot of ring wear & the vinyl does show a few light paper scuffs but looks barely played CB357)
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